Frank Saldo

Frank Saldo (10 July 1882 – 1 June 1939) (born as Frank Harold Woollaston) was an early bodybuilder, and with his brothers Monte Saldo and Edwin Woollaston was a member of the strongman act The Montague Brothers in the early twentieth century.

Born in Holloway in London, the son of George Frederick Woollaston (1828–1896), a shoe manufacturer, Methodist preacher and faith healer, and Adelaide Mary (née Green) (1849–1923), like his older brother Monte, Frank Saldo developed an interest in Physical Culture at a young age and with his brother travelled in the stage act of Eugen Sandow in the late 1890s. In 1901 he went to the Sorbonne to study Physiology. While in Paris he modelled for a portrait of Icarus for the artist Albert Herter. Returning to London, from 1901 to 1902 he was at the Crystal Palace School of Physical Training in South London where he studied Remedial Exercises.

In 1903 he joined his brothers Monte (Alfred Montague Woollaston) and Edwin John Woollaston (1876–1918) to create the stage act "The Montague Brothers", and the new strongman act opened at the Hippodrome in London. During the tour the brothers appeared in Amsterdam, Dresden, Hamburg, Saxony, Prague and Paris, at the latter city regularly working out in the gymnasium of Edmond Desbonnet. On their return they appeared for a season at the London Pavilion. In 1906 one of their new routines was 'The Sculptor's Dream'.

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