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| − | | + | #REDIRECT [[Frank Fillis Jr]] |
| − | (b. Dundee, Scotland, **/**/1880 – d. Johannesburg, **/03/1961). Circus performer, theatre manager. The son of showman [[Frank Fillis]], Francis Alfred Fillis (known as Frank Jr.) initially was a horseman and ringmaster in his stepmother’s circus. He is known to have appeared in at least one film, featuring as the captain of the guard in [[H. Lisle Lucoque]]’s version of [[King Solomon’s Mines]] (1918), a role some sources erroneously ascribe to his father. After Madame Fillis disbanded her circus in 1913, Frank Jr. joined the Schlesinger organisation as a theatre manager. According to Floris van der Merwe, in 1944 he was running the Astoria Theatre in East London and in the late 1940s managed a cinema in Johannesburg. He retired in 1949. He was the brother of [[Adele Fillis]] and [[Cecil Fillis]].
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| − | van der Merwe, Floris - Frank Fillis: the story of a circus legend
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