Seven-foot-plus actor Matthew McGrory, 32
Posted: Thursday, August 11th, 2005 2:21 pmLOS ANGELES (AP) — Matthew McGrory, the deep-voiced 7-foot-plus actor who moved from appearances on Howard Stern’s radio show to a high-profile role as a gentle giant in Big Fish, has died. He was 32.
McGrory died Tuesday at his home in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, said director Drew Sky, who was working with him on his current movie, a biopic of wrestler-turned-actor Andre the Giant.
Paramedics determined he died of apparent natural causes, police said in a statement.
McGrory had size 29 shoes and for years held a world record for biggest feet not caused by elephantiasis. …
He played a human Sasquatch in 2001’s Bubble Boy, an alien in Men In Black II (2002) and Tiny in the Rob Zombie horror movies House of 1000 Corpses (2003) and its sequel released this year, The Devil’s Rejects.
His big break in Hollywood came in 2003 with Tim Burton-directed Big Fish. … Read full obituary
