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Professional wrestler Mike Mazurki got his break in Hollywood with Mae West hired him as her bodyguard. West was forced to give her jewelry to gangsters after they threatened to throw acid in her face. The actress wanted Mazurki nearby at all times. This meant giving him a roll in Belle of the Nineties (1934). Mazurki returned to wrestling until director Josef von Sternberg approached him ...
6 de mar. de 2006 · Mike Mazurki is the heavyweight champion of wrestlers turned actors. With his busted-up, deeply etched face, cauliflower ears and crooked nose, he turned years of getting beaten up for a living into an asset. Mike Mazurki His success in Hollywood paved the way for many contemporaries to land roles in movies, taking time off from.
He was a regular as well on the short-lived sitcom The Chicago Teddy Bears. In 1966–67, he performed as the caveman "Clon" in It's About Time. In 1972, he landed his only starring role in a film as Trapper in Challenge to Be Free. As he aged, acting opportunities for Mazurki began to slow in the 1970s and 1980s; nevertheless, he continued ...
11 de dic. de 1990 · Mike Mazurki, a former college football player and professional wrestler who portrayed menacing thugs or dull-witted giants in more than 80 adventure films and crime melodramas, died Sunday.
Biografia. Mike Mazurki urodził się w Kupczyńcach – niedużej wsi na terytorium obecnej Ukrainy (ówcześnie Austro-Węgry) w rodzinie greko-katolików Juliusza i Anny Mazurkiewicz.Ponieważ ziemie te należały pierwotnie do Rzeczypospolitej i przesiąknięte były polskim żywiołem, najprawdopodobniej temu jego rodzina zawdzięczała polskie nazwisko.
Leben. Mike Mazurki, geboren im damals zu Österreich-Ungarn und jetzt zur Ukraine gehörenden Tarnopol, wanderte mit seiner Familie im Alter von 6 Jahren in die Vereinigten Staaten aus. Seiner zunächst ausgeübten Tätigkeit als Berufsringer in der Schwergewichtsklasse blieb Mazurki auch in seiner ab den 1940er Jahren aufgenommenen Schauspielerkarriere verhaftet, in der er oft Boxer und ...
Mike Mazurki. Actor “I am wrestling in Los Angeles and while I am in the dressing room later I am getting a note asking if I would be interested in a movie career. I am thinking the boys are playing a joke on me, and I am putting the note in my pocket because I am not going to be laughed at.
