Denver – A crocodile that appeared in numerous television programs and movies for three decades, especially the 1996 Adam Sandler’s comedy “Happy Gilmore”, died in a Gator farm in the south of Colorado.
According to his growth rate and loss of teeth, Morris The Aligator was at least 80 years old when he died, said Gator Colorado farm on a Facebook post on Sunday. He had almost 11 feet (3.3 meters) long and weighed 640 pounds (290 kilograms).
“He began acting strangely about a week ago. He was not throwing us and was not taking food,” said Jay Young, owner and operator of the farm, in a video While stroking Morris’s head in an animals.
“I know it’s strange to people who stick so much to a crocodile, to all our animals … A happy moment passed here and died of old age,” he said.
Morris, who was found in the backyard of a Los Angeles house as an illegal pet, began his career in Hollywood in 1975 and retired in 2006, when he was sent to the Colorado Gator farm in the small city of Mosca. It appeared in several films, including “Interview with El Vampiro”, “Dr. Dolittle 2” and “Blues Brothers 2000”. He also appeared in “Coach”, “Night Court” and “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” with the late Wildlife Expert Steve Irwin.
But his most famous role was in “Happy Gilmore”, a film about a failed and bad hockey player who discovers a talent for golf. The main character played by Sandler confronts Morris after hitting a golf ball that ends in the mouth of the crocodile.
Sandler published a tribute to Morris on Instagram on Wednesday.
“We will all miss you. You could be hard with the directors, makeup artists, customers, really anyone with arms or legs, but I know you did it for the best good of the movie,” Sandler wrote. “The day you would not leave your trailer unless we sent 40 lettuce heads that taught me a powerful lesson: you never compromise your art.”
The Colorado Gator farm, which opened to the public in 1990, said he plans to preserve Morris’s body.
“We have decided that Morris Taxidermied so that he can continue to scare the children in the coming years. It is what he would have wanted,” the farm published on Facebook on Monday.
