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Keiko became the star of the film Free Willy in 1993. The publicity from his role led to an effort by Warner Brothers to find a better home for the orca. The pool for the now 21-foot-long (6.4 m) orca was only 22 feet (6.7 m) deep, 65 feet (20 m) wide and 114 feet (35 m) long.
The aquatic star of the film was an orca named Keiko. The huge national and international success of this film inspired a letter writing campaign to get Keiko released from his captivity as an attraction in the amusement park Reino Aventura in Mexico City; this movement was called "Free Keiko". Warner Bros. was so grateful for the whale, and so ...
Unlike the previous film where Keiko played Willy, a robotic double created by Edge Innovations was used to play the eponymous whale while the Free Willy Keiko Foundation devised a plan to bring Keiko to the Oregon Coast Aquarium where he would be rehabilitated from poor health, although Keiko did make an uncredited appearance, reprising his ...
According to a release from "The Good Whale," after Free Willy became an unexpected hit, fans learned the orca who played Willy in the movie — a killed whale named Keiko — was ill and living ...
Emperor Keiko; Keiko (orca), a performing killer whale best known for the film Free Willy "Keiko" (song), a single by Lucerito dedicated to Keiko the orca; Keiko (musician), the lead vocalist of the Japanese band Globe; Keiko eiga, Japanese tendency film; Keiko O'Brien, fictional character in 1990s Star Trek TV shows The Next Generation and ...
Keiko: The Untold story is a 2010 documentary film about Keiko, the Orca best known for starring in the film Free Willy and its two sequels. It was directed and produced by Theresa Demarest. It was directed and produced by Theresa Demarest.
Keiko is a special single by Lucerito, dedicated to the orca Keiko that starred in the first of the three Free Willy movies. When the whale was sold to the Reino Aventura (now Six Flags México), the label of Lucerito decided to release this single due to the fame of the whale.
Keiko, an Orca, starred in the film Free Willy and subject of Brower's book Freeing Keiko: The Journey of a Killer Whale from Free Willy to the Wild A Southern Right Whale and one of many Marine mammals featured in Brower's book Wake of the Whale Yosemite National Park and the subject of Brower's book Yosemite: An American Treasure