MUMBAI: Brad Lesley nicknamed as "The Animal" died on 27 April due to kidney failure in Marina del Rey at the age of 54.
 
Lesley was seen in movies like ‘Mr. Baseball‘, ‘Little Big League‘ and ‘Space Jam‘. His ex-wife Chiho Svimonoff told the media that he had been living in a nursing home for the past seven months, where he was receiving dialysis.
 
Lesley was a former major league baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers from 1982-1985. He later became a television personality in Japan after playing two seasons for the Hankyu Braves. The Japanese loved his style.
 
He was known for his well-known performances such as Ajimaru "Animal" Resry in the Japanese game show, Takeshi‘s Castle where he would participate in such games as "Devil‘s Domain", "Stuck Up" and his own game "Animal Bang".
 
Lesley also worked in the films A Boy Called Hate (1995), Buddy (1997), Big Monster on Campus (2000), Brother (2000) and the FX series Son of the Beach (2001).