From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMax Everitt Rosenbloom (November 1, 1907 – March 6, 1976) was an American boxer, actor, and television personality. Born in Leonard Bridge, Connecticut, Rosenbloom was nicknamed Slapsie Maxie by a journalist due to his open-gloved style of boxing. In 1930, he won the New York light heavyweight title. In 1932, he won the World Light Heavyweight Championship. He held and defended the title until November 1934, when he lost it to Bob Olin. As a professional boxer, Rosenbloom relied on hitting and moving to score points. He was very difficult to hit cleanly with a power punch and his fights often went the full number of required rounds. In his boxing career, he received thousands of punches to the head, which eventually led to the deterioration of his motor functions.In 1937, he accepted a role in a Hollywood film. He became a character actor, portraying comical big guys in movies that included Each Dawn I Die, and Maxie retired from boxing permanently in 1939. Slapsy Maxies, the first comedy club, opened in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He continued acting on radio, television, and in a number of films, usually playing comedy roles as a big, clumsy, punch-drunk—but lovable—character. He appeared in a number of episodes (playing himself) of The Fred Allen Show—including a skit with Marlene Dietrich. Rosenbloom played an important part in televisions first 90-minute drama, Requiem for a Heavyweight, written by Rod Serling, and starring Jack Palance as a boxer at the end of his career. Rosenbloom played an ex-boxer, whose life revolved around retelling old boxing stories night after night to other ex-boxers in a down-and-out bar. It is the fate that looms for Mountain McClintock, Palances character, if he cannot adjust to a new life outside the ring.Slapsy Maxies, his nightclub, is prominently featured in a 2013 crime film, Gangster Squad, which is set in 1949. The club, which actually operated in 1939 at 7165 Beverly Blvd and from 1943 to 1947, was located at 5665 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles.
Tombstone
Film 1938
Slapsy Maxie (uncredited)
Film 1944
Plug-Ugly #2 in Restaurant (uncredited)
Film 1934
'Slapsy' Maxie
Film 1933
The Shadow aka Wilson
Film 1941
Butch Brocalli
Film 1942
Trixie Bell
Film 1943
Brody
Film 1939
Stuffy McInnes
Film 1939
'Rags'
Film 1943
Kid Slug Rosenthal
Film 1943
Eric
Film 1940
Truck Driver
Film 1948
Killer
Film 1939
Film 1960
Slapsie Maxie
Film 1939
Maxie
Film 1933
Himself
Film 1956
Walt Dorgan
Film 1939
Butch Flynn
Film 1936
Stan Wilson
Film 1938
Max Handler
Film 1937
Al
Film 1940
Brains Moran
Film 1941
Maxie
Film 1941
Doc McCoy
Film 1938
Percival J. Percival
Film 1945
Maxie
Film 1944
Maxie
Film 1944
Maxie
Film 1945
Butch
Film 1942
Big Ears
Film 1951
Curley Bender
Film 1939
Maxie Rosenbloom
Film 1937
Maxie (uncredited)
Film 1947
Chotsie
Film 1941
Skipalong Rosenbloom
Film 1951
Moxie Kildorff
Film 1945
Health Spa Proprietor
Film 1945
Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom
Film 1941
Steve
Film 1956
Hank Kircher
Film 1940
'Slapsy' Max
Film 1951
'Crunch' Battaglia
Film 1967
Tv 1964
Self
Tv 1962
Self
Tv 1958
Tv 1958
Clyde
Tv 1954
Self
Tv 1950