Clyde Beatty (June 10, 1903 – July 19, 1965) was a famed animal trainer, zoo owner, and circus mogul. He joined Howe's Great London Circus in 1921 as a cage boy and spent the next four decades rising to fame as one of the most famous circus performers and animal trainers in the world. Through his career, the circus impresario owned several circuses, including his own Clyde Beatty Circus from 1945 to 1956.[1]
ClydeBeatty (June 10, 1903 – July 19, 1965) was a famed animal trainer, zoo owner, and circus mogul. He joined Howe's Great London Circus in 1921 as a...
codirector) and again for Reds. Beatty made his acting debut in Splendor in the Grass (1961) followed by Bonnie and Clyde (1967), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)...
the age of 16. LaVey claimed he left high school at age 16 to join the ClydeBeatty Circus and later carnivals, first as a roustabout and cage boy in an...
Zack Terrell, partnered to start their own show, the Cole Bros. and ClydeBeatty Combined Circus. Kelly was among those who made the jump from Hagenbeck-Wallace...
of the 1930 documentary Africa Speaks! The supporting cast features ClydeBeatty, Frank Buck, Hillary Brooke, Max Baer, Buddy Baer, Shemp Howard and Joe...
and four civilians. The 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in the title roles, was a commercial...
upscale circuses, including Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, ClydeBeatty Circus, Tom Mix Circus, Crafts 20 Big Shows, and Foley & Burke Carnival...
The Big Cage is a 1933 American pre-Code circus film starring ClydeBeatty and Anita Page, and featuring Raymond Hatton, Wallace Ford, Andy Devine and...
sequel to a Mascot Pictures serial called The Lost Jungle, also starring ClydeBeatty. Mascot, and other companies, had been taken over in 1935 by Consolidated...
1920s and 1930s. Roy Radin was a high-school dropout who joined the ClydeBeatty Circus at the age of 16 doing publicity work. A year later, Radin signed...
1970s. He played for numerous circuses, most notably with Cole Bros. ClydeBeatty Circus (now known simply as Cole Bros. Circus) and the Shrine Circus...
Ned Thomas Beatty (July 6, 1937 – June 13, 2021) was an American actor. In a career that spanned five decades, he appeared in more than 160 films. Throughout...
– Will Travel. In an uncredited role, he also impersonated ClydeBeatty on The ClydeBeatty Show. One of Perrin's first television roles was in "The Golden...
Mabel Stark (1889–1968), one of the world's first women tiger tamers ClydeBeatty (1903–1965), one of the pioneers of using a chair in training big cats...
arm of the company, as well as providing them with a studio. ClydeBeatty as ClydeBeatty Cecilia Parker as Ruth Robinson Syd Saylor as Larry Henderson...
The now-iconic lion tamer's chair was possibly first used by American ClydeBeatty (1903–1965). Lion hunting has occurred since ancient times and was often...
woman; using "manly" tools like whips and guns. Another trainer was ClydeBeatty, who used chairs, whips and guns to provoke tigers and other beasts into...
episodic leads in the 1940s and 1950s. She played Mrs. Harriet Beatty on the "ClydeBeatty Show", and was a regular on "Broadway Is My Beat" and "Stars...
father's love for the circus and inspired by the annual visit of the ClydeBeatty-Cole Bros Circus, Dave produced his backyard circus each summer. Although...
created to integrate men and women at the newly co-ed institution. The ClydeBeatty Circus was purchased and combined with the Cole Bros. Circus in 1956...
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