Kalla Pasha

Kalla Pasha (March 5, 1879 – June 10, 1933) was an American professional wrestler, vaudeville comedian, and film actor active during the silent era.

Kalla Pasha
Pasha in Film Fun, 1922
Born
Joseph T. Rickard

(1879-03-05)March 5, 1879
Detroit, Michigan, USA
DiedJune 10, 1933(1933-06-10) (aged 54)
Talmage, California, USA
OccupationWrestler, vaudevillian, screen actor
Years active1919–1931

Biography

Kalla Pasha was the stage name of Joseph T. Rickard, a native of Detroit.[1] He was the professional wrestler Hamid Kalla Pasha, whom the press called "The Crazy Turk"[2] before performing on vaudeville and appearing in 74 films between 1919 and 1931. Rickard's success with Mack Sennett enabled him to be a free-spender, claiming later he would often go about town with a 150 thousand dollars strapped around his waist.[3] The money did not last though, and not long afterward he was arrested for striking a man over the head with a milk bottle during a dust-up involving five cents. As a result, Rickard was sent to Mendocino State Hospital for psychiatric care, where he would die a little over a year later from heart disease.[4][3][5]

Caricature of Pasha (far right) in promotion of Married Life (1920)

Selected filmography
gollark: In the "effective power" one, the problem was apparently some issue with processing text for display in shortened form in notifications where it accessed the wrong memory address, which made the entire process doing that exit, and apparently for some bizarre reason when the notification process exited it brought the entire OS down.
gollark: True, true, you'd expect them to have better sandboxing or something.
gollark: Because it's extremely complicated to do text rendering, look at that link.
gollark: From a technical perspective I kind of wish we had just done regular ASCII plus some nonligaturey extra characters and symbols.
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References
  1. US Passport Application (Joseph T. Rickard ) January 14, 1915
  2. The Daily Review, (Decatur, Illinois) December 18, 1909 | Page 3
  3. Ogden Standard-Examiner (Ogden, Utah ) April 3, 1932 | Page 6
  4. Redwood Journal (Ukiah, California) May 27, 1932 | Page 1
  5. Washington Post, June 11, 1933
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