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John Bill Ricketts, aka, Breschard, the Circus Rider, by Gilbert Stuart Ricketts is identified as the subject of an unfinished portrait of ca. 1795–99 by Gilbert Stuart . The painting's current provenance includes the sitter's brother, Francis Ricketts; it was later owned by Peter Grain and George Washington Riggs . [ 6 ]
W.C. Fields – Actor and vaudeville performer [9] The Flying Karamazov Brothers – juggling and comedy troupe who have been performing since 1973; Jason Garfield – president of the World Juggling Federation; Anthony Gatto – holds various world records for numbers of balls juggled, considered by many to be the world's greatest juggler.
Fictional circus performers. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. C. Fictional clowns (5 C, 44 P) F.
Many are also practiced by non-performers as a hobby. Circus schools and instructors use various systems of categorization to group circus skills by type. Systems that have attempted to formally organize circus skills into pragmatic teaching groupings include the Gurevich system [ 1 ] (the basis of the Russian Circus School's curriculum) and ...
العربية; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; Беларуская; Български; Català; Чӑвашла; Čeština; Cymraeg; Dansk; Deutsch; Eesti; Español ...
Many are best known by the name of their principal owner. The following is a list of both circuses and their country of origin. For more information on circuses in general see Circus , or Contemporary circus , or for information regarding the ancient Roman circus, see Circus Maximus .
Bale was among the fourth generation of Bales in the circus industry, an entertainment dynasty who, in addition to the circus, performed in music hall (vaudeville) using various stage names. [2] After an early childhood touring with European circuses, Bale and his family moved to the United States in the 1950s when his father took a job as a ...
Josephine-Joseph's birth name as well as date of birth and death is unknown and although prominent in circus performance, JJ is probably best known for her film role in the Tod Browning, pre-code production Freaks in 1932, her only screen credit. Her body was supposedly split down the middle, one side female and the other male.