I may be rather late with this, meaning that someone may have posted something similar already.
You will know that the gentleman concerned (actually Dave Magee) was mainly what might be called a "heel manager", with in ring experience.
You are likely to know that he moved in to clowning, mainly as an advance publicity clown for one particular circus. It is far more through clowning that I met him.
News has only just reached us within the British clowning community that Dave passed away a while back, which grieves those of us who knew him. Unfortunately we don't know the cause, nor exactly when he left us, nor how old he was at the time.
If anybody does have relevant details, I, for one, would like to know.
Thanks.
Hi he's alive. I did a job for him a few weeks back and he was a wrestler and was a clown further down the line. I went in his shed and he had clown stuff about.
Hope they didn't (s)cream at each other graham
For some reason, when I checked one of my old wrestling address books, I had Charles Mc.Gee listed under "Dave Devine". Probably one of his many aliases. I knew him through his friendship with Kevin Cawley and, indeed, as I recently mentioned inappropriately on totally the wrong thread, my first dismal attempt at presenting myself as a wrestler was in a tag match with Eddie Rose against the team of Cawley (in bonnet) and Mc.Gee as Charley the Gent at The Civic Hall, Bollington. I later put Charley on against Al Miquet at the Dixon Arms in Chelford. The last time I saw him was in his clown regalia in Manchester's Arndale Centre giving out flyers for a circus.
This reminds me of the story of the two slapstick circus clowns, Mickey and Molly, who married and started a family. Everything was happy initially but they both had affairs and got divorced. It was a messy divorce as they fought for custardy of the children.
I am really pleased to learn that Plummie (as we clowns know him) is still with us. As Eddie says, he's a very pleasant lad.
Charlie the Gent first came to my attention when he appeared with the late Kevin Cawley (another good friend who my 6 year old daughter named "Kevin the Kitten"). Charlie was the manager in these ring appearances. However, Charlie could wrestle, too. As well as tagging, he made a number of solo appearances in the ring including one against me at Radcliffe Civic Hall. He was aggressive and strong and I think we completed a rather rugged 6 round draw. Out of the ring he is a cheerful, friendly and helpful lad; a friend of many years standing.
Eddie Rose
Charlie the Gent has NOT died. Reports exaggerated! He is alive and well. He phoned former wrestler and now promoter Ian MacGregor yesterday (24.08.20) to report he is in good health. He is an old mate of mine from years ago and I wish him all the best! Cheers Charlie from Eddie Rose
Thanks! All I can add is that it was last year that we clowns discovered that Dave was no longer with us.
Thanks Frostini. Do you have a year.
Eddie Rose has been on here today but with so much activity he may have missed this and be able to add more.