Johnny Eck (left) as Half-Boy in Freaks, with his co-star Angelo Rossitto as Angeleno
Born
John Eckhardt Jr.
(1911-08-27)August 27, 1911
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Died
January 5, 1991(1991-01-05) (aged 79)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Resting place
Green Mount Cemetery
Occupation(s)
Actor, sideshow performer
Years active
1923–?
John Eckhardt Jr, (August 27, 1911 – January 5, 1991), professionally billed as Johnny Eck, was an American freak show performer in sideshows and a film actor. Born with sacral agenesis, Eck is best known today for his role in Tod Browning's 1932 cult classic film Freaks and his appearances as a bird creature in several Tarzan films. He was often billed as "The Amazing Half-Boy", "King of the Freaks" and "The Most Remarkable Man Alive".
Besides being a sideshow performer and actor, the multi-talented Eck was also a folk artist (specifically a screen painter), musician, photographer, illusionist, penny arcade owner, Punch and Judy operator, and expert model-maker.
professionally billed as JohnnyEck, was an American freak show performer in sideshows and a film actor. Born with sacral agenesis, Eck is best known today...
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three drones were played by four bilateral amputees, an idea inspired by JohnnyEck, a sideshow performer of the early 20th century who was born without lower...
Angelo Rossitto, right, aged 24 in Tod Browning's Freaks. Fellow performer JohnnyEck is on the left. Born Angelo Salvatore Rossitto (1908-02-18)February 18...
Easterday, played a fictionalized version of himself in the film Kenny JohnnyEck, American freak show performer Kurt Fearnley, Australian wheelchair racer...
also performed in a show titled The JohnnyEck and Dave Toole where he narrated the story of the actor JohnnyEck of the 1930s. He was appointed Officer...
inspired Criss Angel's trick was Rajah Raboid, who performed this trick with JohnnyEck and his twin brother, Robert, in 1937. As suggested by the various effects...
and chemical engineer. Thomas Dunn (1925–2008), musician and conductor. JohnnyEck (1911–1991), American freak show performer born without legs. Arnold Elzey...
as Masters Darby Jones as Bomba Everett Brown as Hostile Native Chief JohnnyEck as Gooney-Bird Monte Montague as Riverboat Captain The previous Tarzan...
actress Charles Dutton, actor Robert Duvall, actor Michael Ealy, actor JohnnyEck, actor, circus performer (Tod Browning's Freaks) Damon Evans, actor Anna...
documentary titled "The Screen Painters" made by folklorist Elaine Eff. JohnnyEck, a screen painter William Oktavec, the inventor of screen painting "Screen...
(Chicago White Sox) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1907) January 5 – JohnnyEck, American entertainer (b. 1911) January 6 – Alan Wiggins, American baseball...
interviews, including Mary Vivian Pearce, Kenneth Anger, George Kuchar, and JohnnyEck. Film Threat Magazine published his interview with George Kuchar in 1988...
living in Springfield, Missouri, and performing regularly at KWTO. Ezra "Eck" Carter, Maybelle's husband and manager of the group, declined numerous offers...
Street in 1922. His sons, grandson, students including the "Half-man" JohnnyEck and hundreds of kindred spirits -- dabblers, sign painters, jacks-of-all-trades...
Frank Eck (born Francis Henry Eck; July 15, 1911 – October 16, 1987) was an American newspaper writer and editor. He was with the Associated Press from...
Eck, Kevin (December 30, 2007). "2007 Awards". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on October 26, 2020. Retrieved September 25, 2020. Eck,...
developer of the study of bioethics; in Pierpont, South Dakota (d. 2001) JohnnyEck (stage name for John Eckhardt Jr.); American acrobat and sideshow performer...
Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey. In 1948, the AP's Frank Eck reported that there had been, to that point, eight rounds as low as 62 posted...
O'Keefe; Piñero (2001) as Sugar, starring Benjamin Bratt; and Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) as Ryne alongside Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas. Soto also...
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out consistently…"". Instagram. Archived from the original on 2021-12-26. Eck, Kevin (December 30, 2007). "2007 Awards". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved September...