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Clown College was the brainchild of Irvin Feld, the owner of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and longtime Ringling clown and front man Bill Ballantine.In 1968, Ringling had only a handful of clowns, most of them over fifty years of age.
In 1968, with the craft of clowning seemingly neglected and with many of the clowns in their 50s, he established the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. [19] [32] Circus Williams, a circus in Europe was purchased for $2 million just to have its star animal trainer, Gunther Gebel-Williams, for the core of his revamped circus.
Griebling spent the rest of his circus career with Ringling, going on strike in 1956 with Emmett Kelly [9] and later teaching to the first few classes of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. He appeared as Jimmy Durante's stunt double in the 1962 film Jumbo. In 1970 Otto had his larynx removed due to cancer, but it did not ...
In 1969, he attended the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, founded the year before. He was the only Black man in his classes, [9] and Ringling's first Black clown. [10] During the six weeks of clown college he also worked as a substitute English teacher.
A graduate of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, Ocasio has performed and taught audiences around the world. Since 2011, Ocasio has been the official Portland Rose Festival's ...
Greg DeSanto graduated in 1985 from the acclaimed Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. [2] He was the featured producing clown and created, wrote, and directed original clown material for Ringling's Blue, Red, and Gold units.
Dwayne Cunningham, a graduate of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, had experience in the animal trade and once spent 14 months in jail for smuggling endangered reptiles — or ...
He graduated from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in 1997. [13] After graduation, he was not selected to join the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, but worked as a clown in a circus at the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop flea market. He filmed his stunts, including clown performances, throughout this period. [9]