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Clyde Beatty (born June 10, 1903 in Bainbridge, Ohio, USA; died July 19, 1965) was a big game hunter who became famous as a lion tamer and animal trainer. He also was a circus impressaro who owned his own show that later merged with the Cole Bros. Circus to form the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus, which is still in existence and bills itself as "The World's Largest Circus Under The Big Top."

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, pumas, 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 40 lions and tigers of both sexes.

Such was Beatty's fame that he appeared in films from the 1930s through the 1950s and on television until the 1960s. His "fighting act" made him the paradigm of a lion tamer for more than a generation. 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.

Clyde Beatty died of cancer in 1965 at the age of 62 in Ventura, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills.

Filmography

Ring of Fear (1954)
Perils of the Jungle (1953)
Africa Screams
a.k.a. Abbott and Costello in Africa (1949)
Here Comes the Circus (1946)
Jungle Woman (1944)
Cat College (1940)
Darkest Africa (1936)
The Lost Jungle (1934)
The Lost Jungle (serial) (1934)
''The Big Cage (1933)

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