For the American filmmaker, see Leo Seltzer (filmmaker).
Leo A. Seltzer[1][2][3] (April 5, 1903 – January 30, 1978) is generally credited as the creator of the sport of roller derby, and was the founder and head of the original Roller Derby league from 1935 until his son Jerry Seltzer took over the business in 1958.
^The nickname "Bromo," in reference to Bromo-Seltzer antacid, appeared in Time, but according to his son Jerry in 2010, nobody ever actually called his father by that name.
^"Sport: Variations", Time, Sep 21, 1936, archived from the original on December 15, 2008.
^"Roller Skating: The Derby Rises Again", Time, Mar 7, 1969, archived from the original on December 14, 2008.
Leo A. Seltzer (April 5, 1903 – January 30, 1978) is generally credited as the creator of the sport of roller derby, and was the founder and head of the...
in Chicago by LeoSeltzer, Jerry's father. Jerry assumed ownership of the league in 1959 and ran it until its demise in 1973. Seltzer attended Stanford...
O'Connell. When the International Roller Derby League, by then run by LeoSeltzer's son, Jerry, closed in 1973, the Hall of Fame also closed. As a result...
Armory. In 1929, as the Great Depression began, struggling film publicist LeoSeltzer (1903–1978) observed that cash prize-awarding dance marathons among out-of-work...
In 1954, Weston joined the original Roller Derby headed by promoter LeoSeltzer, becoming a favorite member of the Los Angeles Braves. Her fame increased...
derby incarnations, Bagwell and Land hired Jerry Seltzer, the son of roller derby creator LeoSeltzer, to be commissioner of their new league. The first...
its origins in the banked-track roller-skating marathons of the 1930s, LeoSeltzer and Damon Runyon are credited with evolving the sport to its competitive...
Orient. In the mid-1960s, Ormond produced roller derby on television for LeoSeltzer, with his son, Tim, as one of the players in the children's version of...
College of New York, where he studied with filmmakers Hans Richter and LeoSeltzer. He also studied acting privately with director Harold Clurman. During...
Gregory Herbert, 40, American jazz saxophonist, died of a heroin overdose. LeoSeltzer, founder of the sport of Roller Derby "213 Believed Killed in India Airliner...
small stable of his own. In the mid-1930s, Runyon persuaded promoter LeoSeltzer to formally change his Roller Derby spectacle from a marathon roller-skating...
supernatural horror film directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer. An international co-production of the United Kingdom and the United States...
Schennum David Scherman Justine Schiavo-Hunt Jana Schneider Flip Schulke LeoSeltzer (filmmaker) Robert A. Sengstacke David Seymour (photographer) Stephen...
swing in the 1930s, use of the arena was limited. In 1935, promoter LeoSeltzer, drawing on the Depression-era popularity of roller skating, conceived...
Board film about a "disabled child" learning to walk and directed by LeoSeltzer, which won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Documentary...
American parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. The film is mainly a parody of the 2006 film 300, although it also references...
of the Transcontinental Roller Derby Association circuit operated by LeoSeltzer. Only five people, including the bus driver, survived when the bus suffered...
movies of the parody genre (particularly those by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, whom he described as "comic terrorists who cavalierly destroy what others...
144. Retrieved September 5, 2023. Seligsohn, Leo (August 4, 1970). "Her Menu: Dumplings and Aka-Seltzer". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p. 32. Retrieved September...
felled. By the mid-1930s, he was performing as emcee in Chicago at LeoSeltzer's dance marathons at the Chicago Coliseum, and worked his own club, Chez...
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