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Charles Fernley Fawcett
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Charles Fernley Fawcett
Born
December 2, 1915(1915-12-02)
Waleska
,
Georgia
Died
February 3, 2008(2008-02-03) (aged 92)
London
,
England
Nationality
American
Known for
Co-founder of the
International Medical Corps
Charles Fernley Fawcett (2 December 1915 – 3 February 2008) was a wrestler, resistance worker, soldier, airman, film star, film maker, and co-founder of the
International Medical Corps
. He was a recipient of the
French
Croix de Guerre
and the American
Eisenhower medal
.
Early life
Charles Fernley Fawcett was born in
Waleska
,
Georgia
, where his mother had been caught in a snow storm and died when he was six.
[1]
[2]
His family was of old
Virginian
stock, whose family tree included
Thomas Jefferson
and
James Madison
.
[3]
Having been orphaned at an early age
, Fawcett and his
younger brother and two sisters grew up in
Greenville, South Carolina
, in the care of their aunt.
[1]
Here he attended
Greenville high school
for three years where he learned to wrestle and play American football.
[4]
Aged 15, Fawcett became involved in an affair with his best friend's mother. He remarked "If that's child molestation, I would wish this curse on every young boy." The end of the affair made Fawcett contemplate suicide, and he left the United States to travel to the far East, working his passage on a number of steamships.
[1]
By 1937 he had returned to America, and Fawcett stayed for a time in
New York
, before making his way to
Washington D. C.
, where he was taken in by his cousin, who happened to be an assistant
United States Postmaster General
.
[1]
Here he ended up wrestling to make a living. Then in 1937 he boarded a ship outside
Montreal
bound for
France
, where he worked as an artist’s model and again as a wrestler.
World War II
After the outbreak of
World War II
he tried to join US Intelligence but his services were declined, so he briefly joined the
Section Volontaire des Américains
- the ambulance corps.
[1]
He was on his way to North Africa to join the
Free French
when he heard about
Varian Fry
, who would go on to rescue over 2,000 Jews from
Vichy France
with the help of a handful of people, Fawcett among them. Among the most famous people they rescued were
Franz Werfel
,
Marc Chagall
,
Heinrich Mann
and
Hannah Arendt
.
“I went to see him and he wasn’t very interested until I told him I’d been a professional wrestler. He said, ‘Maybe we could use you to sort of keep order. Anybody who’s not supposed to be there, you can get rid of them’,” Fawcett recalled in an interview with Dr
Stephen D Smith
in 1998. “Fry was perhaps one of the most idealistic men I had ever known and certainly the most unassuming. We got rid in a hurry of his little bow-tie and striped suit. Out of place completely in
Marseilles
. Maybe one of the reasons he got away with a lot was because he looked so innocent.”
Towards the end of the war, Fawcett married six Jewish women in three months. This enabled the women, who had formerly been imprisoned in
concentration camps
, to leave France with an American
visa
.
[2]
Eventually, he had to flee France at several hours’ notice after a tip-off that the
Gestapo
was coming to arrest him. Having left France, he flew in the
RAF
and later fought with the
French Foreign Legion
.
Post-war
After the war, he pursued a cinematic career, in which he performed in over 100 films, working with such stars as
Errol Flynn
,
Alan Ladd
, and
Robert Taylor
.
[3]
He combined this with smuggling refugees to safety from civil conflict, organizing earthquake relief teams, fighting in several wars, and co-founding the
International Medical Corps
.
Fawcett's first wife, with whom he had a daughter, died in 1956. In 1991, he married again, when after a 30 year engagement he married April Ducksbury, a British model agency executive, and settled in London.
[1]
[3]
In 1979 he went to assist in training the
Mujahideen
in
Afghanistan
, who were fighting the
Soviet Union
. Film footage he shot whilst in Afghanistan was critical in securing American aid to the Mujahideen.
[2]
He spent the rest of his life in
Chelsea, London
with his wife April Ducksbury. Here he acquired a taste for music, and wrote songs. In 2006, Fawcett was nominated for recognition as
Righteous Among the Nations
at the annual British Holocaust commemoration.
[5]
Charles Fawcett died on February 3, 2008 in London, England at the age of 92.
[1]
Partial filmography
When in Rome
(1952) - Mr. Cates
War and Peace
(1956) - uncredited Russian artillery captain
Lonelyhearts
(1958) - Smitty
Barabbas
(1961)
It Happened in Athens
(1962) - Ambassador Cyrus T. Gaylord
The 300 Spartans
(1962) - Megistias
Old Shatterhand
(1964) - General Taylor
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