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- Birth nameSidney Frumpkin
- Sidney Franklin was born on July 11, 1903 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for TV Reader's Digest (1955), The Kid from Spain (1932) and De Nueva York a Huipanguillo (1943). He died on April 26, 1976 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- An American-born matador, he was in Veracruz, Mexico, soon after his 19th birthday, watching a bullfight, when he decided that he would become a bullfighter.
- He was also a journalist during the Spanish Civil War and a bar manager in Spain after WWII. Ernest Hemingway wrote about him in "Death in the Afternoon".
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