Don Sebastian
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June 28, 1911
- Blanche Cordell
- Lois Brooks
- Lynne Roberts
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| Born | Luis Héctor Monge-Tamayo June 28, 1911 Ures, Sonora, Mexico |
| Died | November 30, 1987 (aged 76) Los Angeles, California |
| Occupations | Professional wrestler, actor |
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Don Louis Sebastian (born Luis Héctor Monge-Tamayo, and sometimes billed as Don Carlos Sebastian or Don Juan Sebastian) was a professional wrestler, a wrestling promoter, a movie actor, and the fourth husband of B-movie heroine Lynne Roberts. A native of Mexico, he later immigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen.[1]
Sebastian was born in Ures, Sonora, Mexico, in 1911. In contemporaneous newspaper reports, he was said to have attended high school in Nogales, Arizona.[2] He told reporters he had worked as a bullfighter in Mexico City before becoming a wrestler.[2] He was also praised for his impressive skills as a typist.[1]
Career
By the late 1930s, Don Sebastian—billed as a "Basque wrestler," a "Portuguese-Spanish wrestler," and a "refugee from the Spanish wars"—was wrestling in Mexico and the United States.[3][4] He actually got his start as a masked professional wrestler in Mexico City.[5]
In the 1940s, he promoted wrestling in Santa Barbara County, California, where he resided at the time.[6] In the 1950s, he leased a space in San Bernardino, California, where he hosted wrestling events and amateur boxing.[7]
He was playing bit parts in films by the 1940s and performing as a singer around the Los Angeles area; he later played bigger film roles in the 1970s and 1980s.[8] He reportedly worked as a stuntman double for Erroll Flynn in the 1930s and 1940s as well.[9]
