You don’t have to be a professional wrestling fan to recognize the name Andre the Giant. The Hall of Fame Wrestler is still ...

Andre the Giant was larger than life, both in a figurative and literal sense. Born André René Roussimoff, the wrestler and ...

Many of us remember Andre the Giant for his work in front of the camera, whether it's as a professional wrestler or in the beloved film The Princess Bride. In a new graphic biography, cartoonist ...

It's been over 30 years since the world lost its eighth wonder. André René Roussimoff, better known by most as Andre The Giant, may have died in his sleep on January 28, 1993, but his legacy in ...

One year around Christmas in the early 1980s, Andre the Giant realized he could not breathe when he laid down to sleep. He was safe in the privacy of his secluded country home in Ellerbe ...

At his size, a career in pro-wrestling was inevitable, and he was soon travelling the world as The Friendly French Giant, Jean Ferré ... to bear her weight as Andre didn’t have the strength ...

Overexaggeration is what makes professional wrestling the big-stage, fist-fight fantasy that it is, but for Andre the Giant – one of the niche business’ greatest legends – the allure was in ...

Jane Jenkins, the casting director of “The Princess Bride,” looked at a lot of tall men for the part of the giant Fezzik. But in her mind, there was only one giant who could plausibly haul ...

Andre the Giant and Kareem Abdul Jabbar lift Arnold Schwarzenneger / IMAGO / ZUMA Press Wire A book titled "The Eighth Wonder of the World: The True Story of André the Giant," includes a chapter ...

Andre Roussimoff, better known in history as "The Eighth Wonder of the World" Andre the Giant, was one of the most popular professional wrestlers of his time, dominating the ring with his massive ...

Wrestling icon Hulk Hogan said it’s difficult to explain Andre the Giant’s alcohol-drinking proficiency, but he did his best when telling a pair of epic tales about the late WWE legend.