Birth Name:

Eddie Carmel

Male

Birth Date:

Mon, Mar 16, 1936

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Age:

88

Zodiac Sign:

Pisces

Astrology Data:

Sun

25°

Pis

39'

About Eddie Carmel

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 feet (274 cm) tall, and billed at the heights of 8 ft 9 in (268 cm) and 9 ft 0.625 inches (276 cm) tall, though he may have more realistically been around 7 ft 3 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 ($525,000 in current dollar terms). At the time of his death at age 36, he had shrunk several inches, due to kyphoscoliosis.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• "The Jewish Giant," documentary video radio segment, Sound Portraits Productions, the predecessor to StoryCorps.

• "Eddie Carmel (The Jewish Giant). The Happy Giant/Radar Records 1962," video.

• Eddie Carmel at IMDb

• Eddie Carmel at Find A Grave.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Eddie Carmel: Sun 25 Pisces, Moon 26 Sagittarius, Mercury 4 Pisces, Venus 28 Aquarius, Mars 17 Aries, Jupiter 23 Sagittarius, Saturn 14 Pisces, Uranus 3 Taurus, Neptune 15 Virgo, Pluto 25 Cancer, Sun Trine Pluto, Mercury Conjunct Venus, Sun Square Jupiter, Mercury Semi Square Mars, Mercury Sextile Uranus, Mars Quincunx Neptune, Jupiter Quincunx Pluto, Saturn Opposition Neptune

Categories related to Eddie Carmel: Israeli emigrants to the United States, Israeli Jews, American male film actors, March 16 births, 20th-century American male actors, People from the Bronx, American stand-up comedians, American male comedians, People from Tel Aviv, Baruch College alumni, Bronx, Israeli male film actors, 20th-century Israeli male actors, Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent, City College of New York alumni, American people of Polish-Jewish descent, People with gigantism, Sideshow performers, 1972 deaths, 1936 births, People with acromegaly, Vaudeville performers, People from Co-op City, Israeli male comedians, Israeli stand-up comedians, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus people