jamie: by the mid 1970s in vancouver, steve kulash has established a thriving taxidermy business, and himself is a legend in the field. >> he's a different guy. different cat. jamie: at the same time, tragedy stops the kulash family. in 1981 steve's wife rachel dies of cancer at age 38. seven years later. steven, jr., drowns in a boating accident. >> the death of my mother and my older brother crushed him. it just made him be closer to us because we're all he had. jamie: how did your family manage after that? >> we just dug ourselves into our work, and just kept going. jamie: indeed, long hours at work proved to be therapeutic. >> and then you're going to open it a bit, right? jamie: as his reputation grows, new clients come calling. some from vancouver's burgeoning film industry. >> it was our first prop was the grizzly adams movie. jamie: grizzly adams, his first big break. >> it snowballed from there. >> they would commission us to make a 10 foot by 4 foot thick grizzly bear for macgyver. jamie: then another action figure places an order. >> for the first rambo movie they wanted on