Biography for
Jack Earle More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

3 July 1906, Denver, Colorado, USA

Date of Death

18 July 1952, El Paso, Texas, USA

Birth Name

Jacob Rheuben Ehrlich

Nickname

Texas Giant
The World's Tallest Man

Height

7' 7½" (2.32 m)

Mini Biography

He weighed only four pounds at birth and was so tiny that doctors feared he wouldn't live. But immediately, he began to grow at an incredible rate and by age ten was over six feet tall. He was discovered by Hollywood as a teenager and offered a job acting in comedies. He made over fifty of them, until one day on the set when he fell from a scaffolding. When he woke up, he found he was losing his peripheral vision, due to a newly-discovered pituitary gland tumour. Doctors attempted to shrink the tumor with X-rays which miraculously both restored his sight and stopped his incredible growth. He enrolled in college, during which he went to see the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus where he saw Jack (Jim) Tarver, billed as 'the tallest man in the world'. He joined the circus and traveled with them for fourteen years. Upon retiring from the circus, Jack became a successful traveling salesman and was intensely creative. He painted, sculpted, was a prize-winning photographer.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Sujit R. Varma

Trivia

Once billed 'the world's tallest man' (at the time).