Colleano, Maurice (acrobat/comedian)

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Maurice Colleano was an Australian-born acrobat and circus performer. He was the brother of Con Colleano, and the uncle of American actor Bonar Colleano. He was born Maurice Sullivan in Lismore, New South Wales, the son of an Irish man and a woman of indigenous and African heritage. This circus-performing family initially adopted the a Italian or Spanish sounding surname of Collinos, and later Colleano, to detract attention from their Indigenous heritage, and were known as the Flying Colleanos. [Information from the Australian Dictionary of Biography, and Wikipedia.] Link to catalogue record.

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