[docfr8]

Nice story and bio

[grimekeepa]

i want to see how good the masks came out

[Nite]

fuck he looks like me

[NEVERBACKZ]

id say hes a big hairy arse on him

[elizajane]

ugly basturd....

[gibbo1977]

its wayne rooney

[GODREKR]

This may come to you as a surprise or a silly joke, but it’s nothing but the truth. The popular CGI cartoon Shrek actually existed! Rather, his ogre-ific head was modeled after a real person; he was called Maurice Tillet and he was actually a very intelligent person: a poet and writer who could speak 14 languages, and sure enough he did use plenty of colorful idioms.

Maurice Tillet (1903 – August 4, 1954) was a French professional wrestler known as The French Angel who was a leading box office draw in the early 1940s and was recognized as world heavyweight champion by the American Wrestling Association run by Paul Bowser in Boston. His usual finishing move was the bearhug.

Born in France, he could speak 14 languages and was also a poet and actor. In his twenties, he developed acromegaly, a rare disease that causes bones to grow wildly and uncontrollably. Soon his whole body was disfigured as a result. Seeking a new identity to fit his disfigurement, Tillet moved to the United States where he made a living on his appearance by becoming a professional wrestler, and was dubbed as the "freak ogre of the ring". His villain persona ("the French Angel") was an instant success with the crowds, becoming one of the largest draws in professional wrestling and spawning a series of "Angel" imitators. On August 1, 1944, The French Angel defeated Steve "Crusher" Casey for the Boston-based world championship.

He became a recluse, although a few people did manage to befriend Tillet, including the businessman Patrick Kelly, whose home in Braintree, Massachusetts Tillet would often visit. There the pair would often play chess together. Tillet died in 1954 from heart disease at age 51. Wrestler Bobby Managoff asked Tillet on his death bed if he could make a plaster cast of his face. Tillet agreed, and Managoff made three masks of his face. One of which was given to Milo Steinborn, while two ended up with Patrick Kelly. Steinborn donated this mask to the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame inside the York Barbell Building in York, Pennsylvania. One of the masks sat on Kelly's office desk for years, the other he donated to the International Wrestling Museum in Iowa.

There is a life-size bust of Tillet on display at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, Illinois. The bust was done in 1950 by Louis Linck. Irving Penn made several publicity photographs of Tillet in 1946, and in 1990 reprinted one of these using the fine art Platinum/Palladium process.

He has allegedly inspired the creation of Shrek.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Tillet

Time magazine article from Mar 04, 1940 listing his measurements:

Angel Measured
Monday, Mar. 04, 1940

M. Maurice Tillet is an amiable Frenchman who recently journeyed to the U. S. to engage in wrestling bouts. His nickname is "The Angel." Much excited by photographs of his monstrous head were four enterprising young anthropologists at Harvard, Carlton Stevens ****, Hallam Leonard Movius Jr., Carl Coleman Seltzer and William Herbert Sheldon Jr. They wanted to measure it. Last week they announced that they had indeed taken the Angel's measurements.

M. Tillet is the victim (or, as a wrestler, the beneficiary) of pituitary overdevelopment, resulting in acromegaly—enlargement of the face and jaws. The Harvardmen X-rayed his head, found the sella turcica, which houses the pituitary, considerably enlarged. They measured the tremendous, coffin-shaped face, found it 7.16 inches wide, 7.05 inches long from nose-bridge to jaw-point. They also noted huge protuberances over the eyebrows and at the back of the head, an elevation like a ridgepole from front to back of the cranium.

It seemed likely that pituitary excess set in after the Angel's long bones had stopped growing, otherwise he might have been a giant. His overdevelopment is lateral. Though just under 5 ft. 10 in. tall, he weighs 276 Ibs. One investigator declared: "The collar bones and rib cage are the most massive I have ever seen. . . . The tremendous nuchal [back-of-the-neck] musculature is quite beyond anything I have ever conceived."

The anthropologists found M. Tillet "intelligent, very appealing, kindly and gentle." In short, they liked him. At an afternoon party, he refused sherry and cigarets, took tea and cookies. Like most French commoners, he has a profound respect for the learned professions. He asked Earnest Albert Hooton, famed bellwether of Harvard anthropology, for a signed photograph. Hooton complied, and received from the Angel an elegant letter of thanks, in French, with practically no spelling mistakes.

Last week, back in his garish world of grab-grunt-&-grimace, M. Tillet wrestled in Washington against one Alan Eustace. Five hundred would-be spectators were turned away from the small arena and, as usual, the Angel won, in 10½ minutes.

[thissiteisfuckedup]

holy shit !

[Norwegian1]

That wasn't weird.....

[MonsterMetal]

Hahaha woah! Epic