Aidan Roark

Aidan Roark (October 23, 1905 - March 27, 1984) was an Irish 10-goal polo player and in Hollywood he acted as a personal assistant to Darryl Francis Zanuck.[1]

Biography

He was born on October 23, 1905 in Carlow, Ireland. He participated in the 1939 International Polo Cup as the second ranked player in Britain. He was married to Esther Foss Moore, the daughter of Eugene Noble Foss. They divorced in 1937.[2]

On October 28, 1939 he married Helen Wills.[3][4] The couple divorced in the 1970s. They had no children.[5] He died on March 27, 1984 in Watsonville, California, aged 78.

Acting

References

  1. ↑ Leonard Mosley (1985). Zanuck: The rise and fall of Hollywood's last tycoon. McGraw-Hill. His name was Aidan Roark and he was a charming Englishman and a ten-goal player of polo. Aside from his skill with a mount and a polo mallet, Roark really didn't have a brain in his head. Zanuck installed him in an office at Fox and ...
  2. ↑ "Wife Divorces Aidan Roark". New York Times. December 23, 1937. Retrieved 2011-04-07. Mrs. Esther F. Roark, formerly of Boston and Pebble Beach, Calif., won a divorce today from Aidan Roark, film executive and polo star. She testified that he was rude and brusque.
  3. ↑ "Helen Wills Becomes Bride of Aiden Roark". Los Angeles Times. October 29, 1939. Retrieved 2011-04-07. Helen Wills Moody, former world singles tennis champion, and Aiden Roark, scenario writer and internationally known polo player, were married yesterday in ...
  4. ↑ "Helen Wills Moody, Ex-Tennis Champion, Marries Aidan Roark, Noted Polo Player". New York Times. October 29, 1939. Retrieved 2011-04-07. Helen Wills Moody, former world women's singles tennis champion, and Aidan Roark, noted polo player, were married here today. ...
  5. ↑ Susan Ware. Notable American women. Two years later, on October 28, 1939, she married Aidan Roark, a well-known Irish polo player. The couple divorced in the 1970s. She had no children.

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