Aidan Roark was an Irish 10-goal polo

Polo

Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Sometimes called, "The Sport of Kings", it was highly popularized by the British. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a...

 player and in Hollywood he acted as a personal assistant to Darryl Francis Zanuck.

Biography

He was born on October 23, 1905 in Carlow, Ireland. He participated in the 1939 International Polo Cup

International Polo Cup

The International Polo Cup, also called the Newport Cup and the Westchester Cup is a trophy in polo that was created in 1876 and was played for by teams from the United States and Great Britain. The match is the best of three games. In 1886 it was decided to make the polo match a continuing...

 as the second ranked player in Britain. He was married to Esther Foss Moore, the daughter of Eugene Noble Foss. They divorced in 1937.

On October 28, 1939 he married Helen Wills Moody

Helen Wills Moody

Helen Newington Wills Roark , also known as Helen Wills Moody, was an American tennis player. She has been described as "the first American born woman to achieve international celebrity as an athlete."-Biography:...

. The couple divorced in the 1970s. They had no children. He died on March 27, 1984 in Watsonville, California

Watsonville, California

Watsonville is a city in Santa Cruz County, California, United States. The population was 51,199 according to the 2010 census.Located on the central coast of California, the economy centers predominantly around the farming industry. It is known for growing strawberries, apples, lettuce and a host...

, aged 78.

External links

• Aidan Roark in the 1939 International Polo Cup in Life magazine