Nat Pendleton, American Olympic wrestler and actor Product:Postcard They were strong

They were strong

a man on horseback and a cart

the print is embossed 'Charles Spencer

Original painting by Alexis-Simon Belle which is housed in the National Portrait Gallery

the Hoopoe

Nat Pendleton, American Olympic wrestler and actor Product:Postcard They were strongNat Pendleton, American Olympic wrestler and actor, 1934 1935. Pendleton won a silver medal at the 1920 summer Olympics. He moved into acting in the late 1920s, often playing heavies, although he is best remembered for playing the circus strongman Eugen Sandow in the Oscar winning The Great Ziegfeld (1936). Taken from Meet the Film Stars, by Seton Margrave. (London, 1934 1935).