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Denver – An alligator that has appeared in many television and films for three decades, including the 1996 Adam Sandler comedy “Happy Gilmore”, died in a Gator farm in southern Colorado.
Based on its growth rate and loss of teeth, Morris The Alligator was at least 80 years old when he died, the Colorado Gator Farm said on Sunday on Facebook. He measured almost 11 feet (3.3 meters) long and weighed 640 pounds (290 kilograms).
“He started acting strange a week ago. video While he caressed Morris’s head in an animal enclosure in tears.
“I know that it is strange for people that we are so attached to an alligator, to all our animals. … He spent a happy moment here, and he died of old age,” he said.
Morris, who was found in the backyard of a house in Los Angeles as an illegal pet, began her Hollywood career in 1975 and retired in 2006, when he was sent to the Gator Colorado farm in the small town of Mosca. He appeared in several films, including “Interview with the Vampire”, “Dr Dolittle 2” and “Blues Brothers 2000”. He also appeared on “Coach”, “Night Court” and “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” with the expert in fire from the late Steve Irwin.
But his most famous role was in “Happy Gilmore”, a film on a failed and poorly angry hockey player who discovers a talent for golf. The title of title played by Sandler faces Morris after hitting a golf ball that is found in the mouth of the Gator.
Sandler said a tribute to Morris on Instagram on Wednesday.
“We will all miss you all. You could be hard for directors, make -up artists, costumes – really anyone with arms or legs – but I know you did it for the ultimate good of the film,” wrote Sandler. “The day you don’t get out of your trailer unless we send 40 lettuce heads that taught me a powerful lesson: never compromise your art.”
The Colorado Gator farm, which opened its doors to the public in 1990, said it was planning to preserve Morris’ body.
“We decided to make Morris Taxidermedy could continue to scare children for the years to come. This is what he wanted,” the Farm on Facebook published on Monday.
