| Code | DS/UK/23524 |
| Name | Astaire OBE; Jarvis (6 October 1923-21 August 2021); British sports executive, boxing promoter, film producer |
| Variations of Name | Jarvis Joseph Astaire |
| Dates | 6 October 1923-21 August 2021 |
| Gender | Male (cisgender) |
| Place of Birth/Origin | Stepney, London, United Kingdom |
| Relationships | Uncle of Simon Astaire (writer, film producer)
Former spouse of Phyllis Oppenheim and Nadine Hyman |
| Biography | Jarvis Axtaire was the leading boxing promoter in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to the 1980s. He co-promoted with Harry Levine and matchmaker Mickey Duff. He was a consultant to the Sport Division of First Artist Corp. plc from February 2009 on.
For much of the early 1970s Astaire owned a controlling stake in Joint Promotions, the former cartel that was the UK's largest professional wrestling organisation from the early 1950s to the late 1980s and which held a monopoly on television coverage of wrestling on ITV for most of the that period. He would later play a key role in bringing the WWF's SummerSlam '92 event to Wembley Stadium before a crowd of around 80,000. |