Bart the Bear
Actor · Died May 10, 2000, aged 23 · Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Bart was an Alaskan Kodiak bear born on January 19, 1977 at the Baltimore Zoo. When Bart was five weeks old and weighed five pounds (2 kg), he was sold to Doug and Lynne Seus, who worked as animal trainers for films. The Seuses trained Bart using a reward and praise system. While still a cub, he appeared in the TV series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams playing Adams' companion bear, Ben, as a cub. After reaching adulthood, he made his film debut in the film Windwalker (released 1981). He grew to 9' 7.5" (2.90 m) tall and weighed 1,500 pounds (680 kg) throughout his life as an adult.
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Biography from TMDB.
- January 19, 1977
- May 10, 2000 (aged 23)
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Actor
- 16 on MovieCove · 19 credits in all
What are Bart the Bear's films like?
Across a limited sample of 4 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Self.
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
Light 1 · Serious 2 · Dark 1
Grounded 4 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 2 · Intense 1
A split, not a type: Steady 2 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 1
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Bart the Bear's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 12 of their 16 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Disney+ (6).
Subscription and free streaming for Bart the Bear's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
19 credits, 16 with a MovieCove page.
Meet the Deedles(1998)
Midcredits score: 10th percentile of all films
The Edge(1997)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films
12 Monkeys(1995)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Walking Thunder(1995)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
Legends of the Fall(1994)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
On Deadly Ground(1994)
Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films
White Fang(1991)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
The Bear(1988)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
The Great Outdoors(1988)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all films
Berserker (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)
Benji the Hunted(1987)
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1986)
Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all films
The Gambler: The Adventure Continues (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1983)
Windwalker(1980)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
Career shape
Star power in the 92nd percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 19 titles from 1980 to 1998; peak year 1987.
Film career
Peak 1987 · steadily prominent in film for years. Top draw in 1 MovieCove title. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 1987Screen debut· Benji the Hunted
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.
How do Bart the Bear's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 60th percentile, the median of all 16; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 62nd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up5
- 50th to 74th5
- 25th to 49th3
- Below 25th3
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 16 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved3
- Crowd Pleaser7
- Mixed6
Reviewers score the acting 63/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 68, detractors 38. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.