--- name: "Bart the Bear" canonical: "https://film.one/person/bart-the-bear" fi1m_id: "bart-the-bear" imdb_id: "nm1075976" tmdb_id: 2658100 wikidata_id: "Q809222" roles: ["Actor"] born: "19 January 1977" died: "10 May 2000" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-04T20:33:33.605361+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Bart the Bear ## Identity Bart the Bear - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bart-the-bear - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** bart-the-bear - **IMDb ID:** nm1075976 - **TMDB ID:** 2658100 - **Wikidata ID:** Q809222 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_Bear, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q809222, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1075976/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2658100 Actor. Born 19 January 1977 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Died 10 May 2000. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 19 January 1977, Baltimore, Maryland, USA - **Died:** 10 May 2000 - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_Bear, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q809222, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1075976/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2658100 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Bear*](https://film.one/film/the-bear.md) (78) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Bart the Bear > Bart the Bear is absorbing company in *The Bear*, with a physical authority that needs little help from the filmmakers. We recommend that performance, though the urge to give every animal response a precise human meaning sometimes gets in its way. In *The Bear* (1988), Bart's physical authority gives us something quite different to watch from Douce's vulnerable cub. Jean-Jacques Annaud trusts the animals to hold our interest, and for much of the film that trust is repaid. We were moved by the cub's effort simply to survive; Bart's imposing presence makes the contrast between them count. We can follow them without needing every response translated into an emotion we recognise. His film work began with *Windwalker* (1981), and *The Bear* made him a prominent animal lead. The same year brought the physical comedy of *The Great Outdoors* (1988), a useful reminder that menace was only one use for his bulk. Appearances in *White Fang* (1991) and *Legends of the Fall* (1994) followed. By *The Edge* (1997), Lee Tamahori was using him as the pursuing threat opposite Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin. These are different demands, but they depend on the same practical achievement: trained behaviour that remains believable alongside other performers. The work depended on trainers Doug and Lynne Seus. For *The Bear*, Bart learned to accept an unrelated cub; what looks unforced on screen depended on considerable preparation. Philippe Rousselot's location photography keeps the bears interesting within their surroundings, rather than treating the landscape as sufficient entertainment. We get a place worth looking at and animals worth following through it. Noëlle Boisson's editing does the equally necessary work of making their behaviour carry a dramatic sequence, and for the most part it works. The reservation comes when those sequences grow too tidy, assigning a bear exactly the feeling a scene requires. That is where *The Bear* presses for an affection its animals have already earned, and where Bart is least well served. His responsiveness to Doug Seus was an asset, but the finished film still needs to leave some room for behaviour that resists a simple explanation. Start with Annaud's film, with a little patience for its occasional insistence on telling us how to respond. ## Biography Bart the Bear (1977–2000) was a male Kodiak bear who worked as an animal actor in films and television. He was raised and trained from a cub by Doug and Lynne Seus of Wasatch Rocky Mountain Wildlife in Utah, using reward-based methods. He is credited in *The Bear* (1988) as the Kodiak Bear, alongside appearances in *White Fang* (1991), *Legends of the Fall* (1994), *The Edge* (1997) and *The Great Outdoors* (1988). In 1998 he presented an Academy Award envelope onstage with his trainer. Bart grew to 9 ft 7.5 in (2.93 m) tall and around 1,500 lb (680 kg). He died of cancer on 10 May 2000. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Bear* (1988), Fi1m 78, as The Kodiak Bear — [page](https://film.one/film/the-bear.md) ## Complete filmography (19) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Meet the Deedles* (1998), as Bear - *The Edge* (1997), as Bear - *Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco* (1996), as Bear - *Twelve Monkeys* (1995), as Bear — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/twelve-monkeys.md) - *Walking Thunder* (1995), as Walking Thunder - *Legends of the Fall* (1994), as Bear - *On Deadly Ground* (1994), as The Bear (uncredited) - *Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey* (1993), as Bear - *White Fang* (1991), as The Bear - *The Giant of Thunder Mountain* (1990), as The Bear - *Lost in the Barrens* (1990), as Bear - *The Bear* (1988), as The Kodiak Bear — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-bear.md) - *The Great Outdoors* (1988), as The Bald-Headed Bear (Jody) - *Berserker* (1987), as Bear Garmin (uncredited) - *Benji the Hunted* (1987), as Bear - *Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills* (1986), as The Bear - *The Clan of the Cave Bear* (1986), as The Cave Bear · Stunts - *The Gambler: The Adventure Continues* (1983), as The Bear - *Windwalker* (1980), as Bear ## Gallery - ![Bart the Bear](https://film.one/media/person/3738017/gallery-0e1a2b258983.jpg) Bart the Bear — Evanherk at Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Kodiakbeer.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Bart the Bear](https://film.one/media/person/3738017/gallery-b0e518e867ed.jpg) Bart the Bear — Image via TMDB - ![Bart the Bear](https://film.one/media/person/3738017/gallery-5037016cb57d.jpg) Bart the Bear — Image via TMDB - ![Bart the Bear](https://film.one/media/person/3738017/gallery-175531611b8f.jpg) Bart the Bear — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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