About: Eddie Carmel

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Eddie Carmel (born Oded Ha-Carmeili Hebrew: עודד הכרמלי; March 16, 1936 – August 14, 1972) was an Israeli-born American entertainer with gigantism and subsequent acromegaly resulting from a pituitary adenoma. He was popularly known as "The Jewish Giant", "The Happy Giant," and "The World's Biggest Cowboy." Carmel was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as 9 ft 0 in (2.74 m) tall, and billed at the heights of 8 ft 9 in (2.67 m) and 9 ft 0.625 in (2.76 m) tall, though he may have more realistically been around 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m) tall. He was variously a mutual funds salesman, carnival sideshow act, film actor, rock and roll band singer, and stand-up comedian. He was made famous by photographer Diane Arbus' picture Jewish Giant, taken at Home with His Parents in the Bronx, N.Y. in 19

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  • Eddie Carmel (born Oded Ha-Carmeili Hebrew: עודד הכרמלי; March 16, 1936 – August 14, 1972) was an Israeli-born American entertainer with gigantism and subsequent acromegaly resulting from a pituitary adenoma. He was popularly known as "The Jewish Giant", "The Happy Giant," and "The World's Biggest Cowboy." Carmel was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as 9 ft 0 in (2.74 m) tall, and billed at the heights of 8 ft 9 in (2.67 m) and 9 ft 0.625 in (2.76 m) tall, though he may have more realistically been around 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m) tall. He was variously a mutual funds salesman, carnival sideshow act, film actor, rock and roll band singer, and stand-up comedian. He was made famous by photographer Diane Arbus' picture Jewish Giant, taken at Home with His Parents in the Bronx, N.Y. in 1970, a print of which sold at auction for $421,000 in 2007 ($550,000 in current dollar terms). At the time of his death at age 36, he had shrunk several inches, due to kyphoscoliosis. (en)
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  • 1958-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • "The JewishGiant", "The Happy Giant," "The World's Biggest Cowboy" (en)
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  • Oded Ha-Carmeili (en)
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  • Baruch College (en)
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  • Oded Ha-Carmeili (en)
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  • Jewish Giant, taken at Home with His Parents in the Bronx, N.Y., 1970, Diane Arbus. (en)
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  • Montefiore Hospital in The Bronx, New York City, U.S. (en)
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  • Listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as 9 feet tall, and billed at the heights of 8 ft 9 in and 9 ft 0.625 inches tall. (en)
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  • Eddie Carmel (en)
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  • עודד הכרמלי (en)
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  • Mutual funds salesman, carnival sideshow act, film actor, rock and roll band singer, stand-up comedian (en)
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  • "The Jewish Giant", "The Happy Giant," "The World's Biggest Cowboy" (en)
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  • Eddie Carmel (born Oded Ha-Carmeili Hebrew: עודד הכרמלי; March 16, 1936 – August 14, 1972) was an Israeli-born American entertainer with gigantism and subsequent acromegaly resulting from a pituitary adenoma. He was popularly known as "The Jewish Giant", "The Happy Giant," and "The World's Biggest Cowboy." Carmel was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as 9 ft 0 in (2.74 m) tall, and billed at the heights of 8 ft 9 in (2.67 m) and 9 ft 0.625 in (2.76 m) tall, though he may have more realistically been around 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m) tall. He was variously a mutual funds salesman, carnival sideshow act, film actor, rock and roll band singer, and stand-up comedian. He was made famous by photographer Diane Arbus' picture Jewish Giant, taken at Home with His Parents in the Bronx, N.Y. in 19 (en)
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