Kellers Killers
Posted By thecircusblog on April 9, 2012
I am trying to find out the name of this young man. He looks a little like Roger Smith who was a big cat trainer. This photo may have been taken when Bill Horne had the act Keller’s Killers. I do know that Roger was good friends with Horne.
IT IS NOT ROGER…………… Read comment by Roger Smith.
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No, this isn’t me, and I can’t help to identify the guy. I regret not knowing Keller, who died of a heart attack in the arena, when Corpus Christi was a Texas Date, in 1960. Bill Scamihorne stepped up to take over almost immediately. Bill shortened his name to Horne, and I first met he and Ginny when I visited Rudy Bros., in Lubbock, Texas, in 1965, just days before I arrived in Thousand Oaks, to work at Jungleland. I believe Bill and Ginny were married by then. They continued the act, Keller’s Jungle Killers, until the truck was wrecked when Al Lapchak hit an unseen landslide in Colorado. Al died in the accident, and some of the cats escaped. It was a terrible ordeal from which to try to re-build. In later years, Bill worked Props at NBC in Burbank, and Ginny worked for two veterinarians in Thousand Oaks.