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==Biography==
 
==Biography==
  
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Born in Nieu Zealand  at White Hills, near Bendigo, Victoria, on January
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14, 1876, so that at the time of his death he was just on 29 years of age. He was a natural
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midget, perfectly formed, and his height was 3ft 4in,
  
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==

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John Rumbelow (1876-1906) was a New Zealand comic actor, best known as "Little Gulliver"


Biography

Born in Nieu Zealand at White Hills, near Bendigo, Victoria, on January 14, 1876, so that at the time of his death he was just on 29 years of age. He was a natural midget, perfectly formed, and his height was 3ft 4in,

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Sources

"John Rumbelow, "Little Gulliver" 14/1/1876-12/1/1906". Posted on the blog "In Loving Memory" by Otago Taphophile on Sunday, 27 January 2019[1]

Otago Witness, Issue 2705, 17 January 1906, Page 59, PapersPast website[2].

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.421

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