Jarvis Astaire
{{Short description|English boxing promoter (1923–2021)}}
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Jarvis Joseph Astaire, OBE (6 October 1923 – 21 August 2021) was a British sports executive, boxing promoter, and film producer.{{cite news|url = https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/astaires-war-dance-over-wembley-1078931.html| title = Astaire's war dance over Wembley| date= 7 March 1999 | work = The Independent }}
Life and career
Astaire was born Joseph Golombovitch in Stepney, East London on 6 October 1923. He was the leading boxing promoter in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to the 1980s.{{Citation needed|date=March 2014}} He co-promoted with Harry Levine and matchmaker Mickey Duff. Astaire produced Agatha.{{cite news|url = https://www.variety.org.uk/photos/former-chief-barkers/jarvis-astaire| title = "Jarvis Astaire - 1983" from the gallery Former Chief Barkers| date = 9 October 2019 | work = Variety}} He was Consultant to the Sport Division of First Artist Corp. plc from February 2009 on.{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=45275409&ticker=R4E:LN&previousCapId=23294954&previousTitle=REACH4ENTERTAINMENT%20ENTERPRI
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For much of the early 1970s Astaire owned a controlling stake in Joint Promotions, the former cartel that was the UK's largest professional wrestling organisation from the early 1950s to the late 1980s and which held a monopoly on television coverage of wrestling on ITV for most of the that period. He would later play a key role in bringing the WWF's SummerSlam '92 event to Wembley Stadium before a crowd of around 80,000.{{cite web|url=https://www.britishwrestlersreunion.com/WEBPROTECT-johnlister.htm| author = Lister, John | title = "The History of British Wrestling" | work = British Wrestling Reunion website}}
Astaire died in August 2021, at the age of 97.{{cite web|last1=Lewis|first1=Ron|title=Jarvis Astaire, Hall of Fame Promoter, Passes Away at Age 97 |url=https://www.boxingscene.com/jarvis-astaire-hall-fame-promoter-passes-away-age-97--160069|website=Boxing Scene|date=23 August 2021}}{{cite news|last1=Rawling |first1=John|author1-link=John Rawling|title=Jarvis Astaire obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/aug/23/jarvis-astaire-obituary|work=The Guardian|date=23 August 2021}}
His nephew is the writer, film producer, and media advisor Simon Astaire.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2002/apr/25/features11.g2|title = No 2,030|date = 25 April 2002}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-family/article/can-a-pr-prince-win-us-round-to-princess-pushy-rvssdqbr0vf|title=Can a PR prince win us round to Princess Pushy?|last1=Harlow|first1=John}}
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Category:British boxing promoters
Category:English sports executives and administrators
Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Film producers from London
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