Aidan Roark Explained
Aidan Roark (23 October 1905 – 27 March 1984) was an Irish 10-goal polo player. In Hollywood, he acted as a personal assistant to Darryl Francis Zanuck.[1]
Biography
He was born on 23 October 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 28 October 1939, he married Helen Wills.[3] [4] The couple divorced in the 1970s. They had no children.[5] He died on 27 March 1984, in Watsonville, California, aged 78.
Acting
- Stormy, the Thoroughbred (1954)
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Notes and References
- Book: Leonard Mosley . Leonard Mosley . Zanuck: The rise and fall of Hollywood's last tycoon . 1985 . . 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 ... . 9780070434653.
- News: Wife Divorces Aidan Roark . 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. . . 23 December 1937 . 2011-04-07 .
- News: Helen Wills Becomes Bride of Aiden Roark . https://web.archive.org/web/20121106095005/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/413213061.html?dids=413213061:413213061&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Oct+29,+1939&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Helen+Wills+Becomes+Bride+of+Aiden+Roark&pqatl=google . dead . 6 November 2012 . Helen Wills Moody, former world singles tennis champion, and Aiden Roark, scenario writer and internationally known polo player, were married yesterday in ... . . 29 October 1939 . 2011-04-07 .
- News: Helen Wills Moody, Ex-Tennis Champion, Marries Aidan Roark, Noted Polo Player. Helen Wills Moody, former world women's singles tennis champion, and Aidan Roark, noted polo player, were married here today. ... . . 29 October 1939 . 2011-04-07 .
- Book: Susan Ware . Susan Ware . Notable American women . 2004. 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. . 9780674014886.
