 After his death on December 18, 1997, his final completed films, "Almost Heroes" and "Dirty Work", were released in May and June, 1998, respectively.Farley was originally cast as the voice of the title character in the film "Shrek", recording 85% (or 95%, according to some sources) of the character's dialogue, but died just before recording was finished.The filmmakers felt continuing the film with Farley would be in bad taste, so Shrek's dialogue was re-recorded by former "SNL" castmate Mike Myers.