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Famed wrestler Man Mountain Dean was.
Frank Simmons Leavitt (June 30, 1891 – May 29, 1953) was an American professional wrestler of the early 1900s, known by the ring name Man Mountain Dean.
Frank Simmons Leavitt was an American professional wrestler of the early 1900s, known by the ring name Man Mountain Dean.

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MAN MOUNTAIN DEAN

Born: June 30, 1891 in New York City, New York
Died: May 29, 1953 in Norcross, Georgia

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Man Mountain Dean (born Frank Simmons Leavitt, 1891-1953) was a pioneer of early 1900's wrestling.Joining the United States Army at the age of 14 after lying about his age,Dean saw combat in World War I, and soon after began his wrestling career as "Soldier Leavitt".After returning from the war, Dean had a brief career in football, but ultimately focused on the unprofitable sport of wrestling. He suffered an injury during his wrestling, and took a short break from wrestling to become a police officer, where he met his wife and future manager Doris Dean.Taking her last name and taking the moniker "Man Mountain", Dean began growing an impressive beard, adding to his already fierce 6 foot, 300 pound image. His career after the changes became a great success, landing over 6,700 career matches, and eventually helping branch out to a small stint in a
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Man Mountain Dean
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frank Simmons Leavitt (June 30, 1891 – May 29, 1953) was an American professional wrestler of the early 1900s, known by the ring name Man Mountain Dean. Leavitt wrestled with limited success at first, and after an injury took a job as a police officer in Miami, Florida. Here he met his wife, Doris Dean, who also became his manager.
At her suggestion, in 1932 he adopted the nickname "Man Mountain" and substituted the more Anglo-Saxon-sounding last name of Dean. At a stocky 5'11" and weighing over 300 pounds, Dean was an imposing figure. He also grew a long, full beard as part of his ring persona. After a successful wrestling tour of Germany which had been booked by his wife, Doris Dean, he was invited to take a job in the UK as stunt-double for Charles Laughton in the movie The Private Life of Henry VIII.
This would be the beginning of a subsidiary movie career for Dean, who would appear in various roles in twelve other movies, playing himself in five of them. One of the movies in which he portrayed himself was the Joe
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Man Mountain Dean – Born on June 30, 1891 Frank Leavitt was one of the biggest, literally, wrestling stars in Southern California of the 1930s. Leavitt enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1911 at the age of 19. It was in the Army where he first began his pro-wrestling career by wrestling on the side as Soldier Leavitt for a little extra cash in 1916. He wrestled throughout the East Coast after World War I, but didn’t find much in the way of success. In 1928 he became a traffic cop in Miami, but was fired in 1930 for visiting with the notorious gangster Al Capone, who he considered a friend. After being fired as a traffic cop, he returned to wrestling, but continued to find little success. After changing his name in the early 1930s and growing out his beard, and with his wife Dorris as his manager, he began to find some success wrestling in Boston. In July 1934 Man Mountain Dean made his debut under that name in Southern California and became the biggest thing going. In his first three matches at the Olympic Auditorium went six minutes and seventeen seconds combined. On October 10, 19