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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Moments earlier Fairey was pasting an 8-foot-high portrait of the late World Wrestling Federation star Andre the Giant on the building's wall, but things have suddenly taken a dramatic turn.

As it turns out, the Giant’s life needed no embellishment ... Because shopping could be a cumbersome experience, Andre grew fond of QVC, the home shopping channel that had launched in 1986.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...