In Disney’s latest live-action remake, “Lilo & Stitch,” David Hekili Kenui Bell has a short but memorable role in which he is so bewildered to see aliens that he lets his shaved ice plop to the ground. The appearance was his first in a feature film. Mr. Bell, who had played minor roles in a few productions, died on Thursday. He was 46.

An actor who got a role in the latest Disney movie died just weeks after its premiere. David H. K. Bell played the part of Big Hawaiian Dude in the new live action “Lilo & Stitch” movie, which premiered in May.

The Lilo & Stitch family mourns the beloved cast member and local Hawaiian talent.