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'Mike Mazurki' (December 25, 1907 or 1909^[1] - December 9, 1990) was an American actor and professional wrestler who appeared in over 100 movies. His towering 6' 6" presence and intimidating face usually got the actor movie roles playing tough guys, thugs, strong men, and gangsters. He played a wrestler in ''Night and the City'' and a boxer in ''The Harder They Fall''. He even appeared as a yacht hand in an episode of the television series Perry Mason titled "The Case of the Missing Button," in which he threatened Mason and Paul Drake with a set of brass knuckles.
Mazurki was born 'Mikhail Mazurwski' in Tarnopol, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ternopil, Ukraine). He immigrated to the United States at the age of six, and attended Manhattan College.^[2] He was co-founder and first president of the Cauliflower Alley Club, an association of professional wrestlers. A photograph of his cauliflower ear forms the logo of the organization.

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Filmography

★ ''The Shanghai Gesture'' (1941)

★ ''Murder, My Sweet'' (1944)

★ ''Dakota'' (1945)

★ ''Nightmare Alley'' (1947)

★ ''The Devil's Henchman'' (1949)

★ ''Night and the City'' (1950)

★ ''Dark City'' (1950)

★ ''Blood Alley'' (1955)

★ ''Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier'' (1955)

★ ''Some Like It Hot'' (1959)

★ ''Donovan's Reef'' (1963)

★ ''4 for Texas'' (1963)

★ ''It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'' (1963)

★ ''Cheyenne Autumn'' (1964)

★ ''Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood'' (1976)

★ ''Amazon Women on the Moon'' (1987)

★ ''Dick Tracy'' (1990)

References

1. http://www.filmreference.com/film/90/Mike-Mazurki.html
2. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800028900/bio

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★ Find-A-Grave profile for Mike Mazurki