Frank Brown (entertainer)

Frank Brown (6 September 1858 Brighton, England – 9 April 1943, Buenos Aires, Argentina)[1][2] was a clown, acrobat and circus entrepreneur with a long career in Argentina, where he was known as El Payaso Inglés (The English Clown).

He arrived in Buenos Aires in 1884 when he was around 26 and worked in the Brothers Carlo circus.

In 1910 he was part of a performance to celebrate the Argentine centenary, but the tent was destroyed by arson.

Salta del circo al cielo raso; Banville le hubiera amado así; Franck Brown, como los Hanlon Lee sabe lo trágico de un paso.... (Franck Brown as the Hanlon Lee knows how tragic a step as a clown and it's for me a good Pegasus rider.

Jump from the circus to the ceiling; Banville would have loved him like that; Franck Brown, as the Hanlon Lee he knows how tragic a step ... ) [1] He retired in 1924 and lived with his wife, Ecuyere, Rosita of La Plata (Rosalia Robba) who had been married to Antonio Podestá, one of the nine Podestá Brothers.