Grock [SEP] place of death
fees, and his continuing success enabled him to establish his own circus in 1951, with which he toured until his final performance in Hamburg on October 30, 1954.
He retired to the Villa Bianca (now named "Villa Grock"), a 50-room house he had had built in the 1920s in Imperia, Italy, where he died in 1959.
Biography Media.
Some of Grock's performances have been preserved on film. He made the 1927 silent movie "What For?", and French and German
language versions of "Grock" in 1931. A biopic, "Au revoir, M. Grock" (1950), featured Grock as himself, with Adrien Osperi and Ted Rémy playing Grock as a boy and young man, respectively.
In retirement, he made some appearances on Italian television. He also wrote several books, including an autobiography.
Legacy.
Grock's career is commemorated with the , an annual competition for young circus artists which first took place in 2003. This competition has been discontinued since 2008