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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College was an American circus school which trained around 1,400 clowns in the "Ringling style" from its founding in 1968 until its closure in 1997. History [ edit ]
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 ...
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. He did not want to appear in white face, and with the agreement of circus managers he applied a more scaled down clown make up. [10] He stayed with Ringling for a year, [15 ...
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Glen Gordon "Frosty" Little (December 5, 1925 – October 26, 2010) was a circus clown who served with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for over 20 years. He was one of only four clowns ever to have been given the title "Master Clown" by the Ringling organization.
Steve Smith – "T.J. Tatters", longtime director of Ringling Clown College; Tiririca - Brazilian clown who started his career in the circus, later becoming a singer, gaining fame on TV and becoming a politician; Vicki Gabereau – Rosie Sunshine, ran as a candidate in the 1974 Toronto mayoral election; Yuri Nikulin – Russian clown and actor
He traveled with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus during the 1946 season and then, finally, in 1947, he decided to bid a temporary farewell to the workaday world of publishing and run away to the circus. He “joined out” as a clown with the biggest of all big tops, Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey Circus.
Irwin was born in Santa Monica, California, to Elizabeth (née Mills), a teacher, and Horace G. Irwin, an aerospace engineer. [6] He graduated from Oberlin College in 1974 and attended Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College the following year.