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Henry "Blackie" Escalante 1915 - 2002

Henry Acevedo Escalante of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA was born on December 5, 1915, and died at age 86 years old on January 23, 2002.

Henry Acevedo Escalante
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  • Introduction

    Enrique "Henry" Acevedo Escalante was born to Mariano Escalante (1881 - 196i1) and Emelia "Amelia" Acevedo (born 1884). His father was born in Mexico, as was his mother. He had twelve siblings: Philomeno "Phillip", Eduardo "Edward", Helen, Angelita "Angie", Elodia "Chata", Esther, Carmen "Blanca", Mariano, Lalo, Rosita, Yolanda, and one more sister. See Henry "Blackie" Escalante: Obituary.
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    1915

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    December 5, 1915
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  • Ethnicity & Family History

    Henry was Latino, of Mexican heritage on his maternal and paternal lines.

  • Professional Career

    Henry Escalante was a Stuntman and actor. He was born into a circus family (they were trapeze artists) and he went on to become a stuntman in Hollywood. He doubled for such stars as Johnny Weissmuller in "Tarzan" and he played the creature in "The Black Lagoon". He also played "Spiderman" in 1977. Henry worked in the movies and on television for more than four decades.

  • Personal Life & Family

    Henry first married Lorena Louise Markham (1913 - 1998) in January of 1936 in Los Angeles County, California. They had two daughters, one of whom was Louise Esther Escalante (1936 - 2006) and divorced around 1950. He then married Sylvia Dolores Bojorquez (1931 - 2007) in around 1952. They had one son, Henry Acevedo Escalante Jr. (1960 - 2002).
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    January 23, 2002
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    complications of Alzheimer's disease.
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  • Obituary

    Henry "Blackie" Escalante, the grandson of Mariano Escalante, founder of the Escalante Brothers Circus, performed with the circus as an aerialist before coming to Hollywood and working for more than 40 years as an actor and stuntman, including doubling for Johnny Weissmuller in the "Tarzan" films. Henry Escalante's first film role was an uncredited performance as an acrobat in "Lady in the Dark" (1944), a comedy starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland. He also appeared in "Frenchman's Creek" (1944), "Captain Carey, U.S.A." (1950), "Salome: The Dance of the Seven Veils" (1953) and "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954), in which he played Chico, one of the boat crewmen. Escalante also did stunt work on "The Conqueror" (1956), "The Ten Commandments" (1956) and "Paint Your Wagon" (1969). Beginning in the 1960s, Escalante switched to television work, and appeared in episodes of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.," "Mission: Impossible" and "Hart to Hart." His final TV appearance was in an 1983 episode of "The Fall Guy."
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Henry Acevedo 'Blackie' Escalante
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08/29/2011
Henry Acevedo 'Blackie' Escalante
Henry Acevedo Escalante and the Escalante Circus

Also was a stunt man for the movies.
Date & Place: in USA
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Henry Acevedo "Blackie" Escalante
Birth 04 DEC 1915 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Death 23 JAN 2002 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Henry Acevedo "Blackie" Escalante
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Henry Acevedo "Blackie" Escalante
Movie Stunt man- High Wire Act in Escalante Circus.

Extract L.A. Times Obiturary by Myrna Oliver 1/29/01

Henry "Blackie" Escalante, scion of a family of circus trapeze artists who went on to become Hollywood stuntman, doubling for such stars as Johnny Weissmuller in "Tarzan" films, died January 23rd. He was 86. Reared in the Boyle Heights area of east Los Angeles, Escalante was the great grandson of a circus owner in Mexico and grandson of Mariano Escalante, who founed the Escalante Brothers Circus after the family moved to Los Angeles in 1911.

Like his grandfather, father and uncles, Henry Escalante mastered the trapeze and "flew" with the family circus and others. Escalante remained before the cameras for more than four decades, performing various character notes, as well as acrobatic and other stunts.
Date & Place: in USA
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Escalante, Anna (Jul 23, 1908 - Oct 8, 1997) Escalante, Miriam (Aug 9, 1912 - Apr 11, 1978) Escalante, Emilio (Nov 15, 1911 - Mar 1, 1991) Escalante, Victor (Jul 13, 1905 - May 15, 1999) Escalante, Elois (Jan 23, 1952 - Mar 1986) Escalante, Salvador (May 9, 1899 - Aug 1969) Escalante, Angela (Apr 10, 1916 - Apr 2, 1998) Escalante, Martha (Dec 6, 1899 - Nov 1987) Escalante, Dorotea (Feb 6, 1899 - Nov 1973) Escalante, Maria (Jul 14, 1943 - Oct 7, 1996)
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