1552) Sidney Franklin

Sidney Franklin (born Sidney Frumkin; 1903 – 1976). First American to become a successful matador, the most senior level of bullfighter.

He was born to Orthodox Jewish parents. In 1922, he traveled to Mexico City, where he began a career in bullfighting, and fought bulls in Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Colombia, and Panama.

Franklin was praised by Hemingway in Death in the Afternoon.

 

- "This remark, tossed off in a Mexico City café, infuriated a young poster artist with flaming red hair and a temper to match." https://content.time.com/.../article/0,33009,817393,00.html

 

- "Light skinned with reddish hair, Mr. Franklin was a raconteur who relished being the center of attention." http://www.somosprimos.com/sp2019/spaug19/spaug19.htm

 

- "In Bullfighter from Brooklin he recounts a wonderfully implausible tale of meeting an Indian tribe near Guatemala that worships his red hair and pale skin..." https://books.google.it