Joe Martin (orangutan)

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Joe_Martin_(orangutan) an entity of type: Thing

Joe Martin (c. 1912 – after 1931) was a silent-era American film performer that appeared in approximately 20 one- and two-reel comedy shorts for Universal, several serials, the melodrama Black Orchid and its remake Trifling Women, the Irving Thalberg-produced Merry-Go-Round, the Max Linder feature comedy Seven Years Bad Luck, and two Tarzan movies. Joe Martin was marketed during his lifetime as a monkey, a "near-human ape," a chimpanzee, a gorilla, and a racist caricature of a man, but he was an orangutan. rdf:langString
rdf:langString Joe Martin (orangutan)
rdf:langString Joe Martin
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rdf:langString Likely Indonesia
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rdf:langString Orangutan wearing a suit and top hat, in-photo caption says "This is me, Joe Martin"
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rdf:langString Animal actor, circus-zoo animal
rdf:langString Frank Buck, A.C. Robinson, Sam Behrhendt, Universal Pictures, Barnes Circus
rdf:langString Pongo , species unidentified
xsd:integer 1915
rdf:langString Joe Martin (c. 1912 – after 1931) was a silent-era American film performer that appeared in approximately 20 one- and two-reel comedy shorts for Universal, several serials, the melodrama Black Orchid and its remake Trifling Women, the Irving Thalberg-produced Merry-Go-Round, the Max Linder feature comedy Seven Years Bad Luck, and two Tarzan movies. Joe Martin was marketed during his lifetime as a monkey, a "near-human ape," a chimpanzee, a gorilla, and a racist caricature of a man, but he was an orangutan. Upon entering adolescence, Joe Martin began to physically attack humans. In 1924, at approximately the point of orangutan adulthood, Joe Martin was deemed too dangerous to work in film, and was sold to Al G. Barnes' circus and zoo, where he was seemingly held until at least 1931. In his day, he also dined with novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs, brawled with boxer Jim Jeffries, and organized a prison revolt. Although the circumstances of his death remain obscure, Joe Martin had an unusually long lifespan for a captive orangutan of his era.
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