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Harsh fact

posted 11 years ago by pleckbo
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"...[L]et's toast the memory of Buddha the Orangutan (aka Clyde), who co-starred with Clint Eastwood in the movie Every Which Way But Loose. On the set, Buddha simply stopped working one day. He refused to perform his silly routines any more and his trainer repeatedly clubbed him in the head with a hard cane in front of the crew. One day near the end of filming Buddha, like that dog in Racine's play [(The Litigants)], snatched some doughnuts from a table on the set. The ape was seized by his irate keeper, taken back to his cage and beaten to death with an ax handle. Buddha's name was not listed in the film's credits."

-from Fear of the Animal Planet by Jason Hribal.

[–] Cobra1986 11 years ago

The Clyde in THIS film lived on to an old age. In "Every Which Way You Can" they used a different Clyde because the original had grown too large. That Clyde reportedly died a few weeks after filming ceased. Whether he died of abuse is a whole other story and generally hearsay as far as we know.

Could it have happened(the beating?)of course it could have, but what you just spouted is not verified as true. So think again before you go around passing this off as fact.