An animal actorSourced
The crocodile in
Crocodile Dundee was real.
Burt, a saltwater crocodile captured in the wild, appeared in the 1986 film. He later lived at a Darwin sanctuary and died in 2024 at an estimated age of at least 90.
A screen appearance
in a very long life.
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