In 2002, I wrote a piece for the magazine about Keiko, the orca who played Willy in the "Free Willy" movies.

The actor playing Willy must somehow have a fixed focus on what are really two different characters inhabiting a single mind at the same time.

However just over two weeks after his last appearance on the programme the dog who played Willy died.

Two weeks and two days after being written out of EastEnders, the dog who played Willy died.

The 1993 movie Free Willy made a star of the Orca playing Willy, Keiko.

Keiko (c. 1976 - December 12, 2003) was a killer whale who played "Willy" in the movie Free Willy in 1993.

George Scott, for example, played Willy very dangerously, in a way that I had never seen done before.

In Mr. Miller's words, "Frederic March was directed to play Willy as a psycho," which defeats the play's social context.

In that production, Dustin Hoffman played his father, Willy, and John Malkovich his brother, Biff.

Dustin Hoffman played Willy.