When he was 13, Sabu was discovered by documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty, who cast him in the role of an elephant driver in the 1937 British film Elephant Boy. This was adapted from …

Toomai (Sabu), a young boy growing up in India, longs to become a hunter. In the meantime, he helps his mahout (elephant driver) father with Kala Nag, a large elephant that has been in their …

Petersen (Walter Hudd) hires the father and Kala Nag, among others, for a large annual government roundup of wild elephants to be tamed and put to work. Amused by Toomai and …

Elephant Boy: Directed by Robert J. Flaherty, Zoltan Korda. With Sabu, W.E. Holloway, Walter Hudd, Allan Jeayes. This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the …

He began his wrestling career in 1985 in Farhat's promotion, Big Time Wrestling, and was billed as being from Saudi Arabia under the ring names "Sabu the Elephant Boy" (use of "The …

By sheer chance the timid 12-year-old orphan was discovered by a British location crew while searching for a youth to play the title role (an elephant driver!) in their upcoming feature …

Feb 19, 2020 · In 1934 or 1935, Robert Flaherty was in Mysore filming for Elephant Boy and spotted ten-year-old Sabu, in all likelihood, sitting on an elephant. And that’s how he was …

Sep 10, 2009 · One day he noticed young Sabu working with the Maharajah’s large herd of elephants and he was enormously impressed by the extraordinary skill displayed by the boy in …

Apr 28, 2018 · For a long time he was a popular actor, India’s cultural ambassador in Hollywood, the first and perhaps only Indian to figure in the Hollywood walk of fame. That was Sabu, the …

Sabu the Elephant Boy: Directed by Gina Marsh. With John Quentin, Philip French, Jack Cardiff, John Justin. A biographical documentary about Sabu, his rapid rise to stardom as The …