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OSLO, Norway, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Keiko, the killer whale that starred in several popular movies, has died in Norway at the age of 27, 18 months after he was returned to the wild.
The BBC reported Saturday the six-ton whale apparently suffered a sudden bout of pneumonia in the fjord where he had been living.
Keiko, whose name means "Lucky One" in Japanese, starred in three Free Willy films, in which a young boy befriends a killer whale and encourages him to jump over an aquarium wall to ocean freedom.
Captured near Iceland in 1979, Keiko ended up in a marine park in Mexico.
Inspired by the films, an international campaign began in 1993 to free Keiko and return him to the wild -- the first orca whale to be freed in this way.
"We took him from near death in Mexico to swimming with wild whales in Norway," said David Phillips, executive director of the Free Willy-Keiko Foundation.
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