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Nat Pendleton, American Olympic wrestler and actor, 1934-1935. Pendleton won a silver medal at the 1920 summer Olympics. He moved into acting in the late 1920s, often playing heavies, although he is best remembered for playing the circus strongman Eugen Sandow in the Oscar-winning The Great Ziegfeld (1936). Taken from Meet the Film Stars, by Seton Margrave. (London, 1934-1935).