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• Billy Smart
  ==Circus Owner and Impresario== ...t to make ends meet, and on one occasion, his fellow funfair entrepreneur (and future leisure industry magnate), Billy Butlin, helped him out, which resul
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• John Bill Ricketts
  == THE FIRST CIRCUS IN AMERICA== ...oxes) surrounding a circular riding space filled in with a mixture of soil and sawdust, forty-two feet in diameter—the ring.
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• Jean Richard
  ==Actor, Comedian, Circus Owner== ...farm named "La Ménagerie." His father was Pierre Richard, a horse dealer, and his mother a homemaker, née Suzanne Boinot.
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• Billy Smart Jr
  ==Circus Director and Animal Trainer== ...d Rajah, thus beginning a long career as an animal trainer in his family's circus.
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• Philip Astley
  ==Circus Owner, Equestrian== ...Edward Astley, a veneer-cutter and cabinet-maker. Edward had a short-fuse and a passion for horses, traits he passed on to his son. Philip Astley was nin
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• Paul Binder
  ==Juggler, Clown, Ringmaster, Circus Director== ...rtmouth College, where he performed as an actor with the Dartmouth Players and the Hopkins Center Repertory Theatre.
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• Michael Christensen
  ==Clown, Juggler, Circus Director== ...he San Francisco Mime Troupe, a political street-theater company that used circus techniques to create visual metaphors. As a member of the Mime Troupe, Mich
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• Liana Orfei
  ==Circus Director, Circus Performer, Singer, Actress== ...-seven films, including Fellini's ''I Clowns'' (1972) and dozens of peplum and adventure movies. She also acted onstage under the direction of legendary p
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• Moira Orfei
  ==Circus Owner, Animal Trainer, Actress== ...he golden age of Italian cinema. But it was also due to the quality of her circus.
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• David Dimitri
  ==Wire Dancer, Acrobat, Circus Director and Producer== ...ather, who was starring in the show. David worked again with his father at Circus Knie in 1973.
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• The Togni Family
  ==Circus Owners, Equestrians, Animal Trainers, Acrobats, Aerialists== ...g cupola (in the 1970s), the quarterpole-free big top (also in the 1970s), and the round-cupola, quarterpole-free "Florilegio" big top (in the 1990s).
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• Darix Togni
  ==Circus Owner, Animal Trainer== ...and Doly, and then appeared in a Russian dance act with his cousins Wally and Angly. At age fourteen, he was included in the family’s perch-pole act.
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• Ivor David Balding
  ==Circus Producer and Artistic Director== ...before becoming manager of the Whitney Farm in Lexington, where he raised and trained racing-horses.
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• Cesare Togni
  ==Circus Owner and Performer== ...rcus director who made his mark on the history of the Italian and European circus.
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• Enis Togni
  [[Category:Circus Owners and Directors|Togni, Enis]][[Artists and Acts|Togni, Enis]][[Category:Equestrians|Togni, Enis]][[Category:Animal Tra
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• Roby Gasser
  ==Sea Lion Trainer, Circus Director== ...rteen, Roby was in charge of the technical aspects of the show—sound and lighting.
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• Alberto Zoppé
  == Equestrian, Circus Owner == ...ei]] families, for example. Yet their companies often contained true gems, and Alberto Zoppé was to be one of these.
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• Cirque d'Hiver
  ...e world’s oldest extant circus building. It is also the world’s oldest circus still in activity: It opened its doors in 1852. Its address, at 110 rue Ame ...e (Paris)|Cirque Olympique]], located some five hundred yards from his new circus, on the portion of the Boulevard du Temple that disappeared in 1862, during
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• Valentin Gneushev
  ...eth century, and the creator of some of the most innovative and celebrated circus acts of the 1990s. ...for them, he eventually influenced the style of many young circus artists and companies, including [[Cirque du Soleil]].
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• Alfred Court
  ==Acrobat, Circus Owner, Animal Trainer== ...mal trainers of all times—and as such, a major circus star in Europe and America.
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• Nikolai Chelnokov
  ...aerialist under the legendary team of [[The Durov Dynasty|Tereza Durova]] and [[Victor Fomine|Viktor Fomin]]. ...ttract men to a specialty usually reserved to women. His back flip catches and his rolls-down will also become classic tricks of the specialty's repertoir
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• Giuseppe Chiarini
  [[File:Chiarini_Utagawa_Masanobu.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Chiarini's Circus in Japan (1886)]] ==Equestrian, Circus Entrepreneur==
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• Angel Cristo
  ==Animal Trainer, Circus Owner== ...s born Angel Cristo Dordi in Huelva, Spain, on October 17, 1944, to an old circus family.
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• Franco Knie
  ...nco]][[Category:Animal Trainers|Knie, Franco]][[Category:Circus Owners and Directors|Knie, Franco]][[Category:Equestrians|Knie, Franco]][[Category:Exotic Animal
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• Gerd Siemoneit
  ==Animal Trainer, Circus Owner== ...eit_Lion_Act_Video_(1975)|Gerd Siemoneit, lion act]], at the International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo (1975)
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• Pedro Reis
  ==Aerialist, Circus Director== ..._Video_(1985)|The Survivors, aerial casting cradle]], at the International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo (1985)
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• Cyril Mills
  ==Circus Owner and Director== ...he Royal Air Force. After the Bertram Mills Circus closed down in 1967, he and Cyril Mills remained close friends.''
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• The Cristiani Family
  ==Equestrians, Acrobats, Circus Owners== ..._Video_(1978)|The Cristianis, trampoline act]], at Billy Smart's Christmas Circus (1978)
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• Norman Barrett
  ...-up comedian: "A smashing bloke and a very very nice man… A loyal friend and a very very very nice man." Quite an amazing epitaph for anybody! ===Barrett’s Canadian Circus===
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• Alexis Gruss, Sr.
  ==Equestrian, Circus Director== ..._Liberty_Act_(1975)|Alexis Gruss, Sr., Liberty Act]], at the International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo (1975)
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• Annie Fratellini
  ==Singer, Actress, Clown, Circus Director, Circus Teacher== ...s school in 1975, which has become one of France’s major state-sponsored circus schools, the [[Académie Fratellini]].
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• The Nikitin Brothers
  [[File:Circus_Nikitin_in_Moscow.jpg|right|400px|thumb|Circus Nikitin in Moscow (c.1915)]] ==Circus Entrepreneurs==
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• The Bouglione Family
  ==Menagerie and Circus Owners, Animal Trainers, Artists== * Video: [[Gipsy_Bouglione_Video_(1966)|Gipsy Bouglione, tight and slack wire]], at the Cirque d'Hiver (1966)
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• The Great Carmo
  ==Juggler, Magician, Circus Owner== ...our, having had a short connection with [[Bertram Mills|Bertram W. Mills]] and his two sons in 1929, prior to the appearance of the full-fledged Mills ten
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• Arturo Castilla
  ==Circus Director and Impresario== ...ns and marketing, his foresight of the emerging sport arenas’ potential, and the pioneering of trans-national synergies between major European circuses.
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• The Casartelli Family
  ...e of its famous name) with the legendary [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Parisian circus]]. ...sartelli family managed to become in just a few decades one of the largest circus families in Europe; it counts today about one hundred members.
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• Ali Hassani
  ==Acrobat, Circus Owner== ''By Dominique Jando and Donald Stacey''
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• Joseph Cassuli
  [[Category:Circus Owners and Directors|Cassuli, Joseph]]
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• Paul Cassuli
  [[Category:Circus Owners and Directors|Cassuli, Paul]]
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• Léonce Chapuis
  [[Category:Circus Owners and Directors|Chapuis, Léonce]]
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• The Andreu-Rivels
  ''By Raffaele De Ritis and Dominique Jando'' ...rothers in 1935 to replicate the family act with other, anonymous partners and eventually pursue a "solo" career (albeit never without uncredited partners
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• Cedric Walker
  ==Circus Owner== ...hood dream, and the idea was to create a circus with a large percentage of circus artists of color that would visit urban centers with an important African A
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• Fredy Knie, Jr.
  ...nie, Fredy]][[Category:Cage Acts|Knie, Fredy]][[Category:Circus Owners and Directors|Knie, Fredy]]
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• Fredy Knie, Sr.
  ...e, Fredy]][[Category:Equestrians|Knie, Fredy]][[Category:Circus Owners and Directors|Knie, Fredy]]
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• Rolf Knie, Sr.
  ...e, Rolf]][[Category:Elephant Acts|Knie, Rolf]][[Category:Circus Owners and Directors|Knie, Rolf]]
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• Tommy Hanneford
  ==Equestrian, Acrobat, Circus Owner== ...Hanneford Troupe, with Tommy Hanneford, comedy jockey act]], at Cole Bros. Circus (1949)
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• Eduardo Codona
  ...ardo]][[Category:Flying Acts|Codona, Eduardo]][[Category:Circus Owners and Directors|Codona, Eduardo]]
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• Julius Gleich
  ==Circus Owner== ...existence (1928-1937), but it was, in the early 1930s, one of the largest and most popular traveling circuses in Europe. It was emblematic of an era when
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• Jakob Busch
  ==Circus Owner== ...alized and incorporated in 1960 into the [[VEB Zentral-Zirkus]], the State circus company of the German Democratic Republic.
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• SHORT HISTORY OF THE CIRCUS
  ...common denominator between Roman and modern circuses is the word itself, ''circus'', which means in Latin as in English, "circle". ===Philip Astley: The Father Of The Modern Circus===
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