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Post by schlager7 on Jul 5, 2005 10:13:05 GMT -6
A college fencer who became a celebrity
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Post by schlager7 on Jul 5, 2005 10:17:36 GMT -6
...and one more...this one started fencing in high school.
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Post by fox on Jul 6, 2005 14:36:27 GMT -6
Is it just me? In the "Neil Diamond" photo, I could swear that's one of the Skopik boys on the far left!
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Post by mjwysocki on Jul 6, 2005 14:49:11 GMT -6
John, I am a cultural infadel, so who is the famous person in the first photo?
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Post by fox on Jul 6, 2005 15:07:15 GMT -6
I know! I know! Pick me!
Cornel Wilde, the movie star:
The 5th Musketeer The Norsemen Naked Prey Lancelot and Guinevere Constantine and the Cross At Swords Point The Greatest Show on Earth
(I actually got most of these from the internet movie database)
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Post by schlager7 on Jul 6, 2005 17:47:27 GMT -6
Give a gold star to the kid in the front row.
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Post by Geezer on Jul 7, 2005 7:19:10 GMT -6
Wilde also illustrated a nice little fencing book authored by Joseph Vence, a pre-WW2 Olympian and coach. He did drawings of foil parries that are the best I've ever seen.
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Post by MJ Wysocki on Jul 7, 2005 9:22:03 GMT -6
Further info:Neil Diamond attended college on a fencing scholarship.
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Post by schlager7 on Aug 8, 2005 11:31:57 GMT -6
Wilde also illustrated a nice little fencing book authored by Joseph Vence, a pre-WW2 Olympian and coach. He did drawings of foil parries that are the best I've ever seen. Quite correct, I recently read a news clipping from the 1930s. Wilde fenced competitively for Salle Vince (go figure), particularly in sabre. He was actually in the final shake-down competitions for the US Team to the 1936 Olympics when his Hollywood ship came in.
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Post by bk on Aug 8, 2005 15:45:12 GMT -6
Is it just me? In the "Neil Diamond" photo, I could swear that's one of the Skopik boys on the far left! Beeep! Famous Fencers for 200... Who is Chase Skopik?
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Post by LongBlade on Aug 28, 2005 21:45:48 GMT -6
Cornel Wilde Director, Producer, Actor Born: October 18, 1918 in New York City, NY Died: October 16, 1989 in Los Angeles, CA His father was a traveling salesman who did a lot of business in Europe, and Wilde spent much of his youth traveling in Europe with him, where he became fluent in several languages. For several years he studied medicine in college, but he gave it up to pursue acting; he also gave up a spot on the 1936 U.S. Olympic fencing team. He appeared in a number of plays in New York and on the road, playing everything from bit parts to leads. In 1940 he was hired as a fencing instructor and a featured player for the Broadway production of Hamlet with Laurence Olivier; some of the rehearsals were in Hollywood, where he landed a film contract. On-screen from 1940, Wilde played small roles as heavies in several films, then switched studios and began getting leads in B movies. His career took off after he played Chopin in A Song to Remember (1945), for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination. For several years he starred in major productions, then in the '50s he was back in B movies, often playing swashbucklers. In 1955 he formed his own company, Theodora Productions, to produce, direct, and star in his own films; he ultimately made 11 films in that capacity, but earned little critical respect for his work. Divorced from actress Patricia Knight, Wilde married his frequent costar, actress Jean Wallace. Wilde and Ralph Faulkner circa 1946.In 1946, Ralph Faulkner took charge of the fencing in "The Bandit of Sherwood Forest," a son-of- Robin-Hood movie starring Cornel Wilde. "I always liked Cornel very much. He was one of the few stars in Hollywood who'd had competition training in fencing. He'd fenced in college and was a national intercollegiate fencing champion." Complete Filmography:movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=116764&mod=films
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Post by schlager7 on Oct 5, 2005 8:14:13 GMT -6
The Cornel Wilde entry got me to thinking about old-time Hollywood swashbucklers, so I looked up Tyrone Power, who played Zorro in The Mark of Zorro opposite Basil Rathbone. According to Tyrone Power: A Look Back, Power's father was an actor, his mother a drama teacher and a women's fencing champion. At least he came by it honestly.
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