Matthew McGrory died of natural causes Tuesday Aug. 9, 2005 at his Los Angeles home. He was 32. The seven and a half foot actor was known as Karl The Giant from the 2003 movie "Big Fish". Other movies he was in were "The Devil's Rejects", "House Of 1000 Corpses", "Shadowbox", "The Dead Hate The Living" and the short film "Big Time". McGrory made numerous television appearances also. McGrory was born May 17, 1973 weighing in 15 pounds and was already 24 inches long.

Originally McGrory attended law school and played drums but decided to go into show business when he kept on drawing a lot of media attention. He made appearances on the talk shows of Howard Stern, Oprah, Maury Povich and had roles in "Carnivale", "Malcolm In The Middle" and "Charmed".