Maurice Tillet started out life as a beautiful child. In his teens his features started growing dramatically, due to a pituitary tumor... a condition called acromagally.
Heidi Myers I tried to rewrite Wikipedia to properly reflect Maurices more factual life but I was thwarted by Wikipedia. First person research is frowned upon. He was Not the lonely soul portrayed. He was beloved locally and very embraced. Definitely had challenges, but his life was much different than the tired Wikipedia story.
There is so little video out there on Maurice. This is my favorite found, so far. He does a great job. Although he was older in this one. I would love to see more of his earlier stuff when he was a bit more nimble & stronger. It's clear to me in this video the Acromegaly is coming after him a bit.
@@Kfowlkes09 are you kidding right? It’s a theater! Not even someone with down syndrome would fight like this… they are faking he was a freak meant to be on a show
This man is from the Ural mountains in Russia. That was one of the last surviving strongholds of the Neanderthal. A common trait when interbreeding common but slightly different species is they won't stop growing like Ligers when you mix a lion and a tiger. Tillet no doubt had hybrid human Neanderthal genes.
There is currently only one-known video containing any of his voice & there is a narrator talking over him. His voice has been described, but in essence it would have been very similar to that of Andre the Giant, as he had the same disease and was also from France. With Maurice, he spent the first 13 years of his life in Russia, & eventually spoke many languages, so his accent would have been a bit different. By all indications he was somewhat hard to understand, at times. Here is that previously mentioned video: ua-cam.com/video/6BACedwYyFQ/v-deo.html
He was not born like that. It hit him at age 17, and by 19 he was diagnosed with Acromegaly. He is the classic example of turning lemons into lemonade. But this guy took it a step further. He was very health conscious. He worked out very hard, enjoyed teaching and helping children, and gave the vast majority of his money to charities. I am biased, as I have been studying him for years, but I am also a skeptic, and every last person that knew him, or new of him, cannot say enough positive about the man.
Maurice Tillet (October 23, 1903 - September 4, 1954) was a French professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, The French Angel. Tillet was a leading box office draw in the early 1940s and was twice World Heavyweight Champion by the American Wrestling Association run by Paul Bowser in Boston. Tillet was born in 1903 in the Ural Mountainsin Russia to French parents.[1] His mother was a teacher and his father was a railroad engineer. Tillet's father died when he was young. As a child he had a completely normal appearance and Tillet was nicknamed "The Angel" due to his angelic face. In 1917, Tillet and his mother left Russia due to the Revolution and moved to France, where they settled in Reims. When Tillet was 20, he noticed swelling in his feet, hands, and head, and after visiting a doctor was diagnosed with acromegaly-a condition usually caused by a benign tumor on the pituitary gland, resulting in bone overgrowth and thickening.[1] He had wanted to become a lawyer, but his acromegaly prevented him from doing so. Tillet served in the French Navy for five years as an engineer.[1] In February 1937, Tillet met Karl Pojello (Lithuanian Karolis Požėla) in Singapore. Pojello was a professional wrestler, and convinced Tillet to enter the business. Tillet and Pojello moved to Paris for training, and Tillet wrestled for two years in France and England until World War II forced them to leave for the United States in 1939. In Boston, Massachusetts, in 1940, promoterPaul Bowser pushed Tillet, who was wrestling as The French Angel, as a main eventer, and he became a large draw in the area. As a result of his popularity, Tillet was booked as unstoppable, Was unbeaten for a span of 19 consecutive months. Tillet was the AWA World Heavyweight Champion from May 1940 until May 1942. In early 1942, he also worked as the Montreal-based world heavyweight champion.[citation needed] He re-appeared with the Boston-based title for a short time in 1944.[1] As a result of his success, several Angel imitators emerged, including Paul Olaffsen (Swedish Angel), who also had acromegaly; Tony Angelo (Russian Angel), Tor Johnson(Super Swedish Angel), Jack Rush (Canadian Angel), Wladislaw Tulin (Polish Angel), Stan Pinto (Czech Angel), Clive Welsh (Irish Angel), Jack Falk (Golden Angel), Gil Guerrero (Black Angel), and Jean Noble (Lady Angel). Tillet competed against Tor Johnson, who was billed as The Swedish Angel on those occasions.[1] By 1945, Tillet's health began to fail and he was no longer advertised as unstoppable. In his final wrestling match, in Singapore on February 14, 1953, working The National Wrestling Alliance Mid South Area then known as Tri-State and owned by Leroy McGuirk he agreed to lose to Bert Assirati.[1] In 1950, Chicago sculptor Louis Linckbefriended Tillet and made a series of plaster busts commemorating him for his wrestling career. One of the busts is in Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science. Tillet died on September 4, 1954, in Chicago, from cardiovascular disease after hearing of his trainer's passing.[1] Tillet is buried at the Lithuanian National Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, Cook County, 20 miles (32 km) south of Chicago. Some have speculated that Maurice's appearance and behavior inspired the likeness of the main character in the DreamWorks film Shrek (2001) of the same name, but this rumor hasn't been confirmed.
it's a disease called "Acromégalie" which is a benign tumor that creates an excess of growth cells, augmenting bone structure. similar cases: André the Giant, Carel Struycken, Richard Kiel, Nicolay Valuev...
Did he have kids? When I checked out Maurice's Wikipedia out it didn't mention if he ever married and had kids. I was curious because other places state that he hooked up with a beautiful woman.
Bobbi Joe. The straight answer is no, he never married or had kids. I can tell you that he had girlfriends and aspirations of having a wife & children but that never materialized. There is a complicated backstory which I believe includes his having been an intelligence agent, I've yet to be able to prove. In the end he gave away most of his money to children & mothers dealing with difficult circumstances. That site you are mentioning is likely showing a picture of him with model Dorian Leigh, who I believe was the girlfriend of the photographer Irving Penn. Feel free to reach out to me directly with any additional questions at: thefrenchangeldeathmask@gmail.com
@Jeannie Brown Sorry for the late reply. I rarely check in here. Short answer is no, he did not have a wife. Never married. Never had kids. Olga was the name of his manager's wife. It's a myth someone created that I tried to stop but it keeps going.
He has Giantism, also known as Acromegaly. In his case, the issue hit him after he was fully grown in height, and so expanded only his head, chest, hands & feet.
The evidence I have amassed showing his VERY likely was "A" inspiration, is here. I say "A" because I would say there is a 90+% chance he was part of the character development: deathmaskofmauricetillet-theangel.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html
I came to this the vid and for some reason I was waiting for the slams and All those moves and then realized this was in the 40s 😂 doesn’t help that I’m a lays baked potato chip. Do you think this was staged back then too. It is for entertainment purposes. 🤔
Show. Although in the beginning of his career he was a competitor and trained by the best. In this time, you had to earn your bones, because someone could choose to throw you. So early on he did real, but later joined the ranks of the show.
Just so you know, this man was not just a ogre-man who was exceptional at catch, he was also a genius who studied laws and mastered several languages.
This is typical, somebody turns out to be normal despite looking special, then idiots like you think of them as a genuis
Like 14 or 17 languages right?
Amazing man
And he even trained his donkey to speak!
And I still can@@sallepwr
Who else came here after they found out he was the inspiration for Shrek?
Me
Me too
oi me three HAHAHAHA
Me 4
except he wasnt
Maurice Tillet started out life as a beautiful child. In his teens his features started growing dramatically, due to a pituitary tumor... a condition called acromagally.
Heidi Myers absolutely and agree. more importantly, he was an incredibly kind and generous adult.
Maurice Tillet - The Angel Death Mask hey you I talking to you French Angel I taller than you orge!
Random...
Heidi Myers I tried to rewrite Wikipedia to properly reflect Maurices more factual life but I was thwarted by Wikipedia. First person research is frowned upon. He was Not the lonely soul portrayed. He was beloved locally and very embraced. Definitely had challenges, but his life was much different than the tired Wikipedia story.
@Heidi_Myers Maurice started life as a beautiful child....and Maurice Tillet ended his life a beautiful person.
A intelligent man, a good fighter and a gentle giant. This guy is truly a gigachad.
Rest In Piece Maurice.
SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME
THE WORLD WAS GONNA ROLL ME
I AIN'T THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED
SHE WAS LOOKING KINDDA DUMB WITH FINGER A THUMB AND A SHAPE OF AN L ON HER FOREHEAD
@@palaboytv9986 when the years start coming and they wont stop running 🏃
Fed to the rules and I hit the ground running
Didn't make sense not to live for fun
Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb
So much to do so much to see
So, the guy Shrek is based on... I am not dissapointed.
A true champion in my opinion,. It doesnt matter what he looked like he was a champion.
There is so little video out there on Maurice. This is my favorite found, so far. He does a great job. Although he was older in this one. I would love to see more of his earlier stuff when he was a bit more nimble & stronger. It's clear to me in this video the Acromegaly is coming after him a bit.
prefer his physique here : thick midsection / mature 100% body !
not pretty , but still ALL man 💪
And they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming
I came here after watching Andre the Giant. Beautiful soul.
Nice. I've been looking for footage of The Angel in action for a while now.
Wrestling Scholar Bernkastel it's my favorite wrestling footage found, to date. I think it plays up his strengths nicely.
It’s fake right?
@@elanecdotario9356 Why would it be fake?
@@Kfowlkes09 are you kidding right? It’s a theater! Not even someone with down syndrome would fight like this… they are faking he was a freak meant to be on a show
When Donkey doesn't learn that ogres have layers, like onions.
The chair, USE THE CHAIR!
wish he could watch shrek movies..
WHAT. ARE YOU DOING. IN MY SWAMP?
Was the headbutt one of his signature moves? If not then an opportunity was missed.
I know I shouldn't be laughing at your comment but dam that was funny
Why shouldn't you be laughing? I have been meaning to respond to the above, and it's dead on perfect. I agree. It was a missed opportunity.
Maurice Tillet - The Angel Death Mask oh I know. I think this guys whole appearance should maximize the fright level
styldsteel1 it's interesting how those guys that were the most frightening, were the nicest guys.
+styldsteel1 I agree. This is one of those types of comments that makes you feel like a douche for finding it funny.
The way he died crushes my heart.
he is the best
hes soo good looking !!
🙁
What a character :)
This is probably Rudolph Binacchi who is wrestling Maurice Tillet here, November 26, 1948 from Price Theater in Barcelona, Spain.
Hi Richard 😊
Damn that is so cool though
highly athletic performances
Shrek is that you?
SilkyCreek 40 Well, maybe... You decide.
some bady bady bady. hey now you are rockstar
This man real monster
This guy had layers.
Like an onion
Yes, but I older and Ogre than you.
Who else came him after finding out he was the inspiration of Shrek?
Back when wrestling was not scripted 😂😒
Wrestling was not scripted 👌
SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME
THE WORLD WAS GONNA TROLL ME
Am able to see he’s cute personality from this video
This man is from the Ural mountains in Russia. That was one of the last surviving strongholds of the Neanderthal. A common trait when interbreeding common but slightly different species is they won't stop growing like Ligers when you mix a lion and a tiger. Tillet no doubt had hybrid human Neanderthal genes.
lol
Hello, do you have any recordings of Maurice's voice? I'm curious as to what kind of speech he might give to the people.
There is currently only one-known video containing any of his voice & there is a narrator talking over him. His voice has been described, but in essence it would have been very similar to that of Andre the Giant, as he had the same disease and was also from France. With Maurice, he spent the first 13 years of his life in Russia, & eventually spoke many languages, so his accent would have been a bit different. By all indications he was somewhat hard to understand, at times. Here is that previously mentioned video: ua-cam.com/video/6BACedwYyFQ/v-deo.html
@@TheInterestingAngel thank you very much, I see he was incredibly kind and generous person. His personal/psychical Identity says everything!
Nice
Somebody once told him the world is gonna roll him. But he instead rolls his opponent
Интересно смотреть..
Swear I've seen this same thing somewhere...
Shrek
Some people call him Maurice...
No sound?
gameZ vídeos Nope. Not on this one.
The man was born like that damn. folks are so fucked up in this world. make fun of this man you will go straight to hell !!
He was not born like that. It hit him at age 17, and by 19 he was diagnosed with Acromegaly. He is the classic example of turning lemons into lemonade. But this guy took it a step further. He was very health conscious. He worked out very hard, enjoyed teaching and helping children, and gave the vast majority of his money to charities. I am biased, as I have been studying him for years, but I am also a skeptic, and every last person that knew him, or new of him, cannot say enough positive about the man.
Maurice Tillet - The Angel Death Mask He reminds me of how people describe Andre The Giant.
Alguien español o nd mas yo xd
Vine por tik tok alv UwU
X2 jajaja :3
If it wasn't so documented and even filmed it'd be harder to believe but my lord..I mean..just the size of that head is somethin' huh? 😳👀
This is the guy Shrek is based on
Like si vienes de tucosmopoli:)
Титаны рестлинга
Да да
Goodness gracious
Maurice Tillet (October 23, 1903 - September 4, 1954) was a French professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, The French Angel. Tillet was a leading box office draw in the early 1940s and was twice World Heavyweight Champion by the American Wrestling Association run by Paul Bowser in Boston.
Tillet was born in 1903 in the Ural Mountainsin Russia to French parents.[1] His mother was a teacher and his father was a railroad engineer. Tillet's father died when he was young. As a child he had a completely normal appearance and Tillet was nicknamed "The Angel" due to his angelic face. In 1917, Tillet and his mother left Russia due to the Revolution and moved to France, where they settled in Reims. When Tillet was 20, he noticed swelling in his feet, hands, and head, and after visiting a doctor was diagnosed with acromegaly-a condition usually caused by a benign tumor on the pituitary gland, resulting in bone overgrowth and thickening.[1]
He had wanted to become a lawyer, but his acromegaly prevented him from doing so. Tillet served in the French Navy for five years as an engineer.[1]
In February 1937, Tillet met Karl Pojello (Lithuanian Karolis Požėla) in Singapore. Pojello was a professional wrestler, and convinced Tillet to enter the business. Tillet and Pojello moved to Paris for training, and Tillet wrestled for two years in France and England until World War II forced them to leave for the United States in 1939.
In Boston, Massachusetts, in 1940, promoterPaul Bowser pushed Tillet, who was wrestling as The French Angel, as a main eventer, and he became a large draw in the area. As a result of his popularity, Tillet was booked as unstoppable, Was unbeaten for a span of 19 consecutive months. Tillet was the AWA World Heavyweight Champion from May 1940 until May 1942. In early 1942, he also worked as the Montreal-based world heavyweight champion.[citation needed] He re-appeared with the Boston-based title for a short time in 1944.[1]
As a result of his success, several Angel imitators emerged, including Paul Olaffsen (Swedish Angel), who also had acromegaly; Tony Angelo (Russian Angel), Tor Johnson(Super Swedish Angel), Jack Rush (Canadian Angel), Wladislaw Tulin (Polish Angel), Stan Pinto (Czech Angel), Clive Welsh (Irish Angel), Jack Falk (Golden Angel), Gil Guerrero (Black Angel), and Jean Noble (Lady Angel). Tillet competed against Tor Johnson, who was billed as The Swedish Angel on those occasions.[1]
By 1945, Tillet's health began to fail and he was no longer advertised as unstoppable. In his final wrestling match, in Singapore on February 14, 1953, working The National Wrestling Alliance Mid South Area then known as Tri-State and owned by Leroy McGuirk he agreed to lose to Bert Assirati.[1]
In 1950, Chicago sculptor Louis Linckbefriended Tillet and made a series of plaster busts commemorating him for his wrestling career. One of the busts is in Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science.
Tillet died on September 4, 1954, in Chicago, from cardiovascular disease after hearing of his trainer's passing.[1] Tillet is buried at the Lithuanian National Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, Cook County, 20 miles (32 km) south of Chicago.
Some have speculated that Maurice's appearance and behavior inspired the likeness of the main character in the DreamWorks film Shrek (2001) of the same name, but this rumor hasn't been confirmed.
He was a good fivbfer.
Dale con la silla
-una anciana en el publico
Where is the music?
G good good
shrek is love,shrek is life
I swear people looked stranger back then lol
Maurice: What are you doing in my ring?
I can't tell if he is wearing a costume
Well damn
it's a disease called "Acromégalie" which is a benign tumor that creates an excess of growth cells, augmenting bone structure. similar cases: André the Giant, Carel Struycken, Richard Kiel, Nicolay Valuev...
Shrek was great wrestler.
Today it is WWE but what name were in the past of this world wrestling
Anal fisting
Faz o urro
He looks like shrek 🤔
xolisaxo G.
Shrek was based off of Him.
I bet he smelled as sweet as wildflower on a warm summers day!
Dude was a real life nephlim
TENGO MIEDO!!!
Dale, con la silla!
Doy clases los jueves, no cobro mucho
DALE SHREKKK!!! CON LA SILLA!!!
la lucha libre de esos dias ya era actuada como la de ahora?
Wie tgats cool aaesome
WrestleLamia brought me here
Maurice the shrek cool
#maurice tillet
dammn he is sooo scary
Did he have kids?
When I checked out Maurice's Wikipedia out it didn't mention if he ever married and had kids.
I was curious because other places state that he hooked up with a beautiful woman.
Bobbi Joe.
The straight answer is no, he never married or had kids. I can tell you that he had girlfriends and aspirations of having a wife & children but that never materialized.
There is a complicated backstory which I believe includes his having been an intelligence agent, I've yet to be able to prove. In the end he gave away most of his money to children & mothers dealing with difficult circumstances.
That site you are mentioning is likely showing a picture of him with model Dorian Leigh, who I believe was the girlfriend of the photographer Irving Penn. Feel free to reach out to me directly with any additional questions at: thefrenchangeldeathmask@gmail.com
@Jeannie Brown Sorry for the late reply. I rarely check in here. Short answer is no, he did not have a wife. Never married. Never had kids. Olga was the name of his manager's wife. It's a myth someone created that I tried to stop but it keeps going.
he lived with a man
his head is so big, why?
He has Giantism, also known as Acromegaly. In his case, the issue hit him after he was fully grown in height, and so expanded only his head, chest, hands & feet.
and 🍆
Шрек срисован с него и это факт 100%
Is it true this is the real Shrek? I just read about it
The evidence I have amassed showing his VERY likely was "A" inspiration, is here. I say "A" because I would say there is a 90+% chance he was part of the character development:
deathmaskofmauricetillet-theangel.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html
@@TheInterestingAngel oh ok, awesome. Thanks
Everyone its looking this normal but i can't stop listen bad reputation on this fight
Tilet is creeepy face
Tf he look like shrek I was searching up old wrestlers and he popped up and I was tf shrek the mf professional wrestler tf🤣
He was the inspiration for Shrek💀
Wow it's the real shrek
Get outta my swamp
really sherk :o?
biyoloji dersinden geldim selam
.d sth hormonundan geldik
I came to this the vid and for some reason I was waiting for the slams and All those moves and then realized this was in the 40s 😂 doesn’t help that I’m a lays baked potato chip. Do you think this was staged back then too. It is for entertainment purposes. 🤔
George Steele and Shrek combined
I am interesting, how could looks his reaction on Shrek.
Is this show or real wrestling?
Show. Although in the beginning of his career he was a competitor and trained by the best. In this time, you had to earn your bones, because someone could choose to throw you. So early on he did real, but later joined the ranks of the show.
Bruh I'm not wrestling that dude
Até que o sherek é embaçado
Me😇😅
Lars Sullivan :P
Imagine how boring the fight he must’ve been in the audience, everyone just watching silently, so odd
Ada netijen Indonesia disini? Wkwkwk
Bagikertas
Samaaaa 😂😂
Да
The real shrek🙂🙂👍
Maurice tillet vs Brock Lesnar?
Doy Clases los Jueves, no cobro mucho
Shrek 😱
Shrek Real ?!?!
Jureg faz o urro
Shrek 😄❤️