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Manis - Biography
Manis was the trained orangutan who played Clyde, Clint Eastwood's orangutan sidekick from the 1978 box office hit Every Which Way But Loose.
Its 1980 sequel, Any Which Way You Can (1980), did not feature Manis, as he had grown too much between productions. The orang who played Clyde in the second film died of a cerebral haemorrhage shortly after the film wrapped.
At the same time as Manis returned to his day job as part of a Vegas show, the film’s sequel, Any Which Way You Can, cast a younger, smaller orangutan to play Eastwood’s sidekick. Tragically, however, the replacement, named Buddha, was in the care of an abusive trainer, who was already in the midst of a federal investigation into animal cruelty.
Manis returned to working with his trainers' act in Las Vegas.
