Emile Czaja

Other names of Emile Czaja: King Kong

DOB : 15-07-1909
Date of death: 16-05-1970
Lived For : 60 Years
Star Sign : Cancer
Gender : Male

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Emile Czaja(pronounced shya), also known by his wrestling name King Kong King Kong is an Indian film Actor and comedian ass >> Read More... was a professional wrestler and actor who worked mostly in Australia and India.He was born in Hungary and started his training for wrestling at an early age of 18 years.He was the favorite wrestler for the people of Far East from 1937 till he died in 1970.In his professional career of wrestling, he accounted many rivalries with the best wrestlers of the era like Dara Singh Dara Singh was born on November 19, 1928 in Dharmu >> Read More... , Aslam Pahalwan, Hamida Pahalwan and many more.

Czaja was given the name “King Kong” after essaying the role of King Kong in an Indian movie in the 1950s.The name Emile Czaja became popular for the first time in 1937, when Czaja came to Bombay, India where many wrestlers from the western countries had gathered to wrestle against Indian wrestlers.Here he got a chance to wrestle against Hamida Pahalwan, in which he lost eventually but this fight gained him extensive popularity in the world of wrestling.

He started his movie career with the Tamil film, Ponni in 1953.He played the role of King Kong, the Hungarian wrestling champion.The movie gained wide popularity because of a wrestling sequence between King Kong and Dara Singh which is still a legendary scene for people who followed wrestling in those days.After this he worked in various other movies like “Faulad”, in 1963, where he played the role of a slave master,”Hercules”, in 1964 where he starred alongside Dara Singh,”Tarzan and King Kong”, in 1965 where he fights against Tarzan, played by Randhawa(brother of Dara Singh), “ Sangram Click to look into! >> Read More... ”, in 1965 where he worked alongside Dara Singh, Randhawa and Aruna Irani.

The last movie he worked in was, “Mujrim Kaun?”, which was released in 1968, under the direction of K.K. Reddy. Czaja faced an untimely demise at the age of 60.He died in a car crash in Singapore in 1970 when he was headed for a wrestling match.