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Clyde Beatty est un Acteur, Book et Doubleur technique Américain né le 10 juin 1903 à Bainbridge, Ross County (Etats-Unis)

Clyde Beatty

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Nationalité Etats-Unis
Naissance 10 juin 1903 à Bainbridge, Ross County (Etats-Unis)
Mort 19 juillet 1965 (à 62 ans) à Ventura (Etats-Unis)

Clyde Beatty (June 10, 1903 - July 19, 1965) joined the circus as a cage cleaner as a teen and became famous as a lion tamer and animal trainer. He also became a circus impresario who owned his own show that later merged with the Cole Bros. Circus to form the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus.

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Beatty became famous for his "fighting act," in which he entered the cage with wild animals with a whip and a pistol strapped to his side. The act was designed to showcase his courage and mastery of the wild beasts, which included lions, tigers, cougars, and hyenas, sometimes brought together all at once in a single cage in a potentially lethal combination. At the height of his fame, the act featured as many as 40 lions and tigers of both sexes, and Beatty had his own rail car in the 35-car circus train.



There have been suggestions that Beatty was the first lion tamer to use a chair in his act, but in an autobiographical book Beatty himself disclaimed the credit: "It was in use when I was a cage boy and had been used long before."

Beatty's fame was such that he appeared in films from the 1930s to the 1950s and on television until the 1960s. He was also the star of his own syndicated radio series, The Clyde Beatty Show, from 1950 to 1952. The weekly programs featured adventures loosely based on his real-life exploits. However, the stories were no doubt more fictitious than real, and Beatty actually appeared in name only. In fact, Vic Perrin, not identified as such to the radio audience, impersonated him on the show. His "fighting act" made him the paradigm of a lion tamer for more than a generation. Beatty was once mauled by a lion named Nero. The tamer was in the hospital for ten weeks as a result of the attack. However, he remained undaunted and actually faced Nero down in a cage for the film The Big Cage. He is one of the caricatures at Sardi's restaurant in New York City created by Alex Gard which is now part of the Billy Rose Theatre Collection at the New York Public Library. In 1957, Beatty performed his act on The Ed Sullivan Show, Beatty had complained during rehearsal that the stage was too small and unsafe for his act. But Sullivan convinced him to perform anyway. During the act, Beatty lost control of the act. In order to keep the home audience from realizing the live performance had gone awry. Ed went into the audience to introduce some of the celebrity attendees. Luckily, Beatty was able to subdue to the lions without injury to himself or the lions by firing blanks. A clip of the performance was featured in the best of the Ed Sullivan show DVD.

Beatty married Harriett Evans (name often printed as "Harriet"), a young dancer, apparently from Russia. She had joined the circus to sell candy, an act of desperation when she was out of work during the early years of the Great Depression, probably late 1929. After two years she had learned some riding and aerial acts, but without making much professional headway. She and Beatty became involved in 1931 and married on September 16, 1933. The marriage lasted until her death in 1950 in Kosciusko, Mississippi, reportedly from a heart attack. Their union seems to have been founded on a great deal of team spirit, and after a year or so she insisted on being trained as an animal tamer herself, an extremely unusual thing for a woman in those days. Beatty let her have an act in 1935 and she did very well, proving to be popular with the public and the press.

In the 1997 film Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, lion tamer Dave Hoover cites Beatty as a major influence on his career. Director Errol Morris uses several clips from Beatty's films during his interviews with Hoover.

In the 1981 television pilot of the Greatest American Hero. Ralph Hinkley is told by a fellow teacher that the "Clyde Beatty technique" is one way to use a chair to keep his unruly students "at bay"

Clyde Beatty was born in Bainbridge, Ohio, United States, and died of cancer in 1965 at age 62 in Ventura, California, and was interred in the Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.

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Vince Barnett
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Jack Pierce
Jack Pierce
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Ray Corrigan
Ray Corrigan
(4 films)
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Filmographie de Clyde Beatty (10 films)

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Les Géants du cirque, 1h33
Réalisé par William A. Wellman, James Edward Grant
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Aventure
Thèmes Cirque
Acteurs Clyde Beatty, Pat O'Brien, Sean McClory, John Bromfield, Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Emmett Lynn
Rôle Clyde Beatty
Note51% 2.5664352.5664352.5664352.5664352.566435
Dublin O'Malley, un ancien artiste de cirque aigri, revient sur les lieux de son ancien travail afin de se venger de son employeur et d'une femme. Les crimes et les accidents qu'il commet, déguisés en accident, inquiètent le personnel qui commence à croire le cirque hanté. Le directeur, Clyde Beatty, fait alors appel à Mickey Spillane pour résoudre l'énigme. Spillane ne tarde pas à découvrir le véritable auteur de ces méfaits...
Perils of the Jungle, 1h3
Réalisé par George Blair
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Aventure
Acteurs Clyde Beatty, Phyllis Coates, John Doucette, Leonard Mudie, Roy Glenn, Olaf Hytten
Rôle Clyde Beatty
Note47% 2.3812952.3812952.3812952.3812952.381295
In order to save them from extinction, explorer Grantland Cunningham (Stanley Ferrar) engages animal trainer Clyde Beatty to accompany him to Africa to capture a few of the last known Nubian lions. The pair run afoul of hunters led by Gorman (John Doucette) who wish to kill rather than capture the big cats. Beatty and Cunningham are aided in their quest by humanitarian Jo Carter (Phyllis Coates).
Sous le plus grand chapiteau du monde, 2h33
Réalisé par Cecil B. DeMille
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Comédie, Comédie dramatique, Action, Romance
Thèmes Cirque, L'euthanasie, Transport, Le train
Acteurs Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, James Stewart, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame
Note64% 3.248343.248343.248343.248343.24834
Le directeur d'un grand cirque américain, Brad Braden, doit faire face à des difficultés financières, et ses investisseurs refusent d'assurer une tournée complète cette année : ils préfèrent se contenter des grandes villes, et faire une tournée de dix semaines. Pour les convaincre qu'il va réussir à équilibrer le budget, Braden les informe qu'il a engagé le "grand" Sébastian, un trapéziste de renom. Ses investisseurs le préviennent qu'en plus d'avoir du succès auprès des spectateurs, celui-ci a également beaucoup de succès auprès des dames, ce qui fait qu'il crée autant de problèmes qu'il attire la renommée. De son côté, le truand Henderson a bien l'intention de profiter de la caravane du cirque pour arnaquer certains visiteurs. Il confie cette tâche à Jack Lawson, à qui il conseille de se faire discret : il ne tiendrait pas face à Braden.
Abbott et Costello en Afrique, 1h20
Réalisé par Charles Barton
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Aventure
Thèmes Afrique post-coloniale
Acteurs Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck, Max Baer Jr., Shemp Howard
Rôle Lui-même
Note59% 2.999092.999092.999092.999092.99909
Lorsque le contre Buzz du libraire Diana en pensant que son ami Stanley sait tout ce qu'il ya à savoir sur l'Afrique, ils sont enlevés et ont ordonné de mener Diana et ses hommes de main à une tribu africaine à la recherche d'une fortune en bijoux.
Jungle Woman, 1h1
Réalisé par Reginald Le Borg
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Science-fiction, Fantasy, Horreur
Thèmes Mise en scène d'un animal, Mise en scène d'un singe
Acteurs Evelyn Ankers, J. Carrol Naish, Samuel S. Hinds, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone, Douglass Dumbrille
Rôle Fred Mason (in long shots) (archive footage / uncredited)
Note47% 2.3710552.3710552.3710552.3710552.371055
The film begins with shadowy images on a wall showing a man being attacked by what appears to be a woman. He produces a needle from his pocket and administers its contents to his assailant. She falls to the ground, apparently dead.
La Femme gorille, 1h1
Réalisé par Edward Dmytryk
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Science-fiction, Horreur
Thèmes Mise en scène d'un animal, Mise en scène d'un singe
Acteurs John Carradine, Milburn Stone, Evelyn Ankers, Acquanetta, Lloyd Corrigan, Martha Vickers
Rôle Fred Mason (in long shots) (archive footage / uncredited)
Note54% 2.703382.703382.703382.703382.70338
Un scientifique fou fait de l'expérimentation dans la recherche glandulaire et devient obsédé par la transformation d'une femelle gorille dans un être humain... même si cela coûte la vie humaine.
Darkest Africa
Réalisé par Joseph Kane, B. Reeves Eason
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Aventure
Thèmes Afrique post-coloniale
Acteurs Clyde Beatty, Elaine Shepard, Ray Corrigan, Wheeler Oakman, Lucien Prival, Edward McWade
Rôle Clyde Beatty
Note62% 3.142773.142773.142773.142773.14277
While on Safari in East Africa, Clyde Beatty runs into a loincloth wearing boy, Baru, and his pet ape Bonga. Baru reveals that he has escaped from the lost city of Joba, King Solomon's sacred city of the Golden Bat, but that his sister, Valerie, remains there. She was found by High Priest Dagna as a child and declared to be Joba's goddess as part of his quest for power. Her escape could cause a revolt among the city's citizens. Clyde agrees to help Baru rescue Valerie and they set out to Joba, through the Valley of Lost Souls.

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Jungle Woman, 1h1
Réalisé par Reginald Le Borg
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Science-fiction, Fantasy, Horreur
Thèmes Mise en scène d'un animal, Mise en scène d'un singe
Acteurs Evelyn Ankers, J. Carrol Naish, Samuel S. Hinds, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone, Douglass Dumbrille
Rôle Doubleur technique
Note47% 2.3710552.3710552.3710552.3710552.371055
The film begins with shadowy images on a wall showing a man being attacked by what appears to be a woman. He produces a needle from his pocket and administers its contents to his assailant. She falls to the ground, apparently dead.