Johnny Indrisano


Johnny Indrisano was an American welterweight boxer whose career spanned the period from 1923 to 1934. He later became a film stunt performer and a film and TV actor.

Career

Indrisano was born in Boston. He defeated two world welterweight champions; Lou Brouillard and Jackie Fields. However, Indrisano never received a match for the world welterweight title.
Indrisano retired with a record of thirty seven wins and nine defeats.
After his retirement from boxing, Indrisano had a career as a referee, stunt man, and actor in films such as Some Like It Hot and Guys and Dolls. He appeared in The Bowery Boys films, a number of Joe Palooka movies, and three Elvis Presley films. He also worked from as early as 1937 through 1942 as a bodyguard for Mae West. On television, he appeared in a 1964 episode of the situation comedy The New Phil Silvers Show.

He died in Los Angeles, aged 62.

Personal life and death

Indirisano married Mary Vardaro in the early 1930s, with whom he had a daughter, Kathleen. They were divorced in the 1940s. He committed suicide by hanging in his home in the Mount Olympus section of Los Angeles on July 6, 1968, his daughter's birthday, after a long bout of depression.

Partial filmography