Eugen Sandow
Actor · 1867 – 1925 · Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia
Eugen Sandow (born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller) was a German bodybuilder and showman from Prussia. Born in Königsberg, Sandow became interested in bodybuilding at the age of ten during a visit to Italy. After a spell in the circus, Sandow studied under strongman Ludwig Durlacher in the late 1880s. On Durlacher's recommendation, he began entering strongman competitions, performing in matches against leading figures in the sport such as Charles Sampson, Frank Bienkowski, and Henry McCann. In 1901 he organised what is believed to be the world's first major body building competition. Set in London's Royal Albert Hall, Sandow judged the event alongside author Arthur Conan Doyle and athlete/sculptor Charles Lawes-Wittewronge.
Movies6
Movie6.9DocumentaryTV MovieThe history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.
Glorious Technicolor
1998 · 14 votes
Movie10.0DocumentaryThe careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919.
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
1998 · 1 votes
Movie5.3On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s Wintergarten Theater. With live musical accompaniment, the compilation program included short film sequences with famous artists of the time: Italienischer Bauerntanz, Komisches Reck, Der Jongleur, Das boxende Känguruh, Kamarinskaja, Die Serpentintänzerin, Akrobatisches Potpourri, Ringkampf, and Apotheose, with the Skladanowsky brothers bowing to their audience.
Wintergartenprogramm
1895 · 30 votes
Movie5.2DocumentaryStrong-man Eugene Sandow flexes his muscles and strikes a few poses in front of a black background. This was a short film shot by William K.L. Dickson for the American Mutoscope Company and is not the 1894 Edison film shot at the Black Maria.
Sandow
1896 · 73 votes
Movie5.1DocumentaryEugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.
Sandow: The Strong Man
1894 · 48 votes
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Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.
Ringkämpfer
1895 · 27 votes
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TV6.7DocumentaryCrimeInterviews with friends, family and Sally McNeil herself chart a bodybuilding couple’s rocky marriage — and its shocking end in a Valentine's Day murder.
Killer Sally
2022 · 73 votes