Johnny Eck(1911-1991)
- Actor
Johnny Eck was born John Echkardt, twenty minutes after his twin brother
Robert. The boys entered the sideshow circuit at the age of 12, where
John was billed as "Johnny Eck, The Half-boy." Johnny went on to play a
role in Tod Browning's Freaks, la monstrueuse parade (1932) before returning with his brother to
Baltimore, where he became a screen painter. Johnny died January 5,
1991, at the age of 79, in the house where he was born.
