BOXER FOR FILMS
FORMER BRITISH HEAVYWEIGHT A man who once was the idol of the boxing ring is now glad to earn a guinea a day as a film “extra" and player of small parts. Sixty-year-old Gunner Moir secs nothing glamorous in making films and rubbing shoulders with the stars. To him it is just a job of work. The man who fought Billy Wells. "Iron" Hague and Tommy Burns | asked this week: "Where has it got me?" Of his present work he said: "1 do it because I have to. Sometimes weeks go by without a ring from the studios. Then I get a chance to make a few pounds—but there is no danger of my having to pay super tax. or even income tax. on which I earn." The Gunner, one of the first recognised British heavy-weight champions, won the title in 190 G. Twice he fought handsome and debonair Bombardier Wells, and now and again they meet on the set and appear in the same pictures, for Wells also is filming. The ex-champion Moir is not always cast as a fighter in pictures. He has appeared as an executioner in a French revolution film, and just now he is playing the part of a prisoner in a Will Hay production.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1938, Page 10
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213BOXER FOR FILMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1938, Page 10
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