Man Mountain Dean

At 61 years old, Man Mountain Dean has this physical status:

After the war, Leavitt embarked on a career in athletics. Although he played with the New York Brickley Giants of the National Football League from 1919–20, he concentrated most of his efforts on professional wrestling. He competed in the ring for a time under the name "Hell's Kitchen Bill-Bill" (a "hillbilly" reference which was suggested to him by the writer Damon Runyon) but eventually settled on the moniker of "Stone Mountain".

Leavitt wrestled with limited success at first, and after an injury took a job in 1925 as a Miami Beach police officer. He worked for the City of Miami Beach Police Department for one year. In 1926 he transferred to the City of Miami Police Department where he became a traffic officer. He was a fixture at his traffic post at East Flagler Street and 2nd Avenue. Starting in 1926, the City of Miami would send Leavitt on summer publicity tours across the United States and Canada to promote Miami. While on his traffic post in Miami he met his wife, Doris Dean Cooper, who also became his manager. In 1930 Leavitt was fired from the police force for visiting Al Capones residence on Palm Island in Miami Beach. In 1932, at his wife's suggestion, he adopted the nickname "Man Mountain" and substituted the more Anglo-Saxon-sounding last name of Dean. At a stocky 5'11" and weighing over 300 pounds, Dean was an imposing figure. He also grew a long, full beard as part of his ring persona. After a successful wrestling tour of Germany which had been booked by his wife, Doris Dean, he was invited to take a job in the UK as stunt-double for Charles Laughton in the movie The Private Life of Henry VIII. This would be the beginning of a subsidiary movie career for Dean, who would appear in various roles in twelve other movies, playing himself in five of them. One of the movies in which he portrayed himself was the Joe E. Brown comedy The Gladiator, a 1938 adaptation of Philip Gordon Wylie's 1930 novel Gladiator.

Meanwhile, he continued a successful wrestling career, participating altogether in 6,783 professional bouts and commanding fees upwards of $1,500 for each match. In 1940 he retired from the ring to a farm outside of Norcross, Georgia.

Dean ran for a seat in the Georgia House of Representatives in 1938 but withdrew his candidacy, citing discomfort with the political process. During World War II he again joined the Army despite his age, and eventually retired with the rank of master sergeant. In the 1940s he was the First Sergeant of the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie, Md., where he instructed soldiers in hand-to-hand combat. Afterward he studied at the University of Georgia's school of journalism. He appeared as a guest on the December 29, 1944 episode of the radio program It Pays to be Ignorant. During the program, broadcast from New York City, Dean gave his weight as 280 pounds (127 kg). Several other wrestlers would go on to use the "Man Mountain Dean Jr." and "Man Mountain" moniker, including Man Mountain Mike, Man Mountain Link and Man Mountain Rock.

Source