Rusty Wescoatt, Ncaws pob thiab kuj
Yug Norman Edward Wescoatt nyob Hawaii rau lub yim hli ntuj 2, 1911, "Rusty" Wescoatt ua si football rau lub tsev kawm ntawv ntawm Hawaii ua ntej yuav ua nws kev wrestling debut hauv Hawaii thaum lub sij hawm 1933. Wescoatt kuj yog ib tug ua luam dej tau zus ib. Wescoatt chiv ua xov xwm ntxiv rau nws ua luam dej dua nws wrestling thaum nws mus rau lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas hauv teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas hauv 1935.
Hnub Xya, Tim 21, 1935, Wescoatt swam the five-mile ferry route between Oakland and San Francisco in two hours, eight minutes, and five seconds. The San Francisco Examiner article noted Wescoatt held the national backstroke championship as well.
Film credits for The Last of the Bucanners with Rusty Wescoatt as part of the cast
Wescoatt married swimming champion and film actor Vivian DeBarre. After their marriage, Vivian managed Rusty’s career and traveled the country with him.
Rusty Wescoatt performed as a solid mid-card wrestler but never developed into a main event performer. Wescoatt’s best year was 1939 when he wrestled a few main events in California and Texas.
In Harlingen, Texas on May 31, 1939, Wescoatt wrestled Juan Humberto in the main event on the card. Humberto won the first fall of the best two-out-of-three-falls match. The referee awarded Wescoatt the second fall on a disqualification, but Wescoatt refused to accept it. Wescoatt defeated Humberto cleanly for the second fall.
The men wrestled a fast-paced, evenly contested third fall before Humberto pinned Wescoatt for the third fall. The fans thought little separated the two wrestlers. Hmoov tsis, these few matches were the highlights of his career.
By the late 1940s, Wescoatt transitioned into acting in “B” films and serials such as Batman and Robin (1949). Wescoatt plays the henchman Ives in this serial (affiliate link) in chapters 3 mus 13. Wescoatt played in over eighty films and television before retiring from acting in the late 1950s.
After retiring from acting and athletics, Wescoatt operated a chain of food markets in Los Angeles and San Diego. Wescoatt lived in the Hollywood area until his death on September 3, 1987, at seventy-six years of age. Wescoatt’s wife Vivian passed away in 1985 after fifty years of marriage.
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Qhov chaw: San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California), Tim 22, 1935, p. 19, The Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia), Lub peb hlis ntuj 19, 1936, p. 14, Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, Texas), Lub rau hli ntuj 1, 1939, p. 6, The Los Angeles Times, Lub Xya hli ntuj 22, 1985, p. 28 and September 5, 1987, p. 59 thiab The Honolulu Star-Bulletin (Honolulu, Hawaii), Cuaj hlis 11, 1987, p. 13
