Roark, circa 1950

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.[citation needed]

Acting

References

  1. ^ Leonard Mosley (1985). Zanuck: The rise and fall of Hollywood's last tycoon. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070434653. 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". The New York Times. 23 December 1937. Retrieved 7 April 2011. 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. 29 October 1939. Retrieved 7 April 2011. 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". The New York Times. 29 October 1939. Retrieved 7 April 2011. Helen Wills Moody, former world women's singles tennis champion, and Aidan Roark, noted polo player, were married here today. ...
  5. ^ Susan Ware (2004). Notable American women. ISBN 9780674014886. 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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