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Looking for reviews of Frank Leavitt movies? Cinafilm has a total of 8 reviews across 3 movies.
Movies starring Frank Leavitt have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 61%.
Big City - released in 1937 - is Frank Leavitt's highest rated movie, with a score of 70% based on 1 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Frank Leavitt is Reckless - released in 1935 - with a score of 50% based on 6 reviews.
Frank Simmons Leavitt (June 30, 1891 – May 29, 1953) was an American professional wrestler of the early 1900s, known by the ring name Man Mountain Dean. Leavitt wrestled with limited success at first, and after an injury took a job as a police officer in Miami, Florida. Here he met his wife, Doris Dean, who also became his manager. At her suggestion, in 1932 he adopted the nickname "Man Mountain" and substituted the more Anglo-Saxon-sounding last name of Dean. At a stocky 5'11" and weighing over 300 pounds, Dean was an imposing figure. He also grew a long, full beard as part of his ring persona. After a successful wrestling tour of Germany which had been booked by his wife, Doris Dean, he was invited to take a job in the UK as stunt-double for Charles Laughton in the movie The Private Life of Henry VIII. This would be the beginning of a subsidiary movie career for Dean, who would appear in various roles in twelve other movies, playing himself in five of them. One of the movies in which he portrayed himself was the Joe E. Brown comedy The Gladiator, a 1938 adaptation of Philip Gordon Wylie's 1930 novel Gladiator.
Frank Leavitt has acted in films with Mickey Rooney, Paul Fix, Spencer Tracy and Paul Harvey.
Frank Leavitt has worked with these film directors: Victor Fleming, Frank Borzage and Edward Sedgwick.
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