# Don Sebastian

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For the play by John Dryden, see [Don Sebastian (play)](/source/Don_Sebastian_(play)).

**Don Louis Sebastian** (born **Luis Héctor Monge-Tamayo**, and sometimes billed as **Don Carlos Sebastian** or **Don Juan Sebastian**) was a professional wrestler, a wrestling promoter, a movie actor, and the fourth husband of B-movie heroine [Lynne Roberts](/source/Lynne_Roberts_(actress)). A native of Mexico, he later immigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen.[1]

## Origins

Sebastian was born in [Ures](/source/Ures), Sonora, Mexico, in 1911. In contemporaneous newspaper reports, he was said to have attended high school in [Nogales, Arizona](/source/Nogales,_Arizona).[2] He told reporters he had worked as a bullfighter in Mexico City before becoming a wrestler.[2] He was also praised for his impressive skills as a typist.[1]

## Career

By the late 1930s, Don Sebastian—billed as a "Basque wrestler," a "Portuguese-Spanish wrestler," and a "refugee from the Spanish wars"—was wrestling in Mexico and the United States.[3][4] He actually got his start as a masked professional wrestler in Mexico City.[5]

In the 1940s, he promoted wrestling in Santa Barbara County, California, where he resided at the time.[6] In the 1950s, he leased a space in San Bernardino, California, where he hosted wrestling events and amateur boxing.[7]

He was playing bit parts in films by the 1940s and performing as a singer around the Los Angeles area; he later played bigger film roles in the 1970s and 1980s.[8] He reportedly worked as a stuntman double for Erroll Flynn in the 1930s and 1940s as well.[9]

## Personal life

Don Sebastian married Blanche Cordell in 1949 in Ventura, California; they divorced in 1958. He married Lois Brooks in 1965 in Los Angeles. He married [Lynne Roberts](/source/Lynne_Roberts_(actress)) in 1971, but was legally separated from her at the time of her death.[10]

He died in Los Angeles in 1987 and is buried in [Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale](/source/Forest_Lawn_Memorial_Park,_Glendale).

## Selected filmography

- *[Thieves and Robbers](/source/Cat_and_Dog)* (1983)
- *[Super Fuzz](/source/Super_Fuzz)* (1980)
- *[Hollywood Man](/source/Hollywood_Man)* (1976)
- *[Mako: The Jaws of Death](/source/Mako:_The_Jaws_of_Death)* (1976)
- *[How Do I Love Thee?](/source/How_Do_I_Love_Thee%3F)* (1970)

## References

1. ["Sebastian to Return for Tourney Here"](http://www.newspapers.com/image/92134373/?terms=%22don+sebastian%22+wrestler). *The Evening Herald*. 25 Oct 1940. Retrieved 2019-12-01.

1. ["Wrestler-Typist"](http://www.newspapers.com/image/97381379/?terms=%22don+sebastian%22+wrestler). *The Evening Herald*. 16 Apr 1940. Retrieved 2019-12-01.

1. ["Basque Wrestler on Display"](http://www.newspapers.com/image/593908768/?terms=%22don+sebastian%22+wrestler). *Deseret News*. 27 Apr 1939. Retrieved 2019-12-01.

1. ["Don Sebastian to Show Here"](http://www.newspapers.com/image/258861469/?terms=%22don+sebastian%22+wrestler). *The Honolulu Advertiser*. 23 Sep 1940. Retrieved 2019-12-01.

1. ["Masked Wrestlers Headline Mat Card"](http://www.newspapers.com/image/530165804/?terms=%22don+sebastian%22+wrestler). *Visalia Times-Delta*. 30 Nov 1938. Retrieved 2019-12-01.

1. ["Sebastian Takes Over Wrestling at Pismo Beach"](http://www.newspapers.com/image/447969039/?terms=%22don+sebastian%22+wrestler). *The Santa Maria Times*. 4 Jun 1948. Retrieved 2019-12-01.

1. ["Wrestling Returns to S.B. Saturday"](http://www.newspapers.com/image/49234391/?terms=%22don+sebastian%22+wrestler). *The San Bernardino County Sun*. 28 Feb 1954. Retrieved 2019-12-01.

1. ["Wrestler-Typist"](http://www.newspapers.com/image/97380941/?terms=%22don+sebastian%22+wrestler). *The Evening Herald*. 6 Apr 1940. Retrieved 2019-12-01.

1. ["Mexican Adonis Meets Chick in Monday Grapple"](http://www.newspapers.com/image/104512373/?terms=%22don+sebastian%22+wrestler). *Medford Mail Tribune*. 22 Mar 1940. Retrieved 2019-12-01.

1. Everett Aaker. *Encyclopedia of early television crime fighters*. McFarland 2006 Page 479

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