Jarvis Astaire

Jarvis Joseph Astaire, OBE, (born 6 October 1923 in London) is a British sports executive, former boxing promoter and film producer.
Career.
He 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. Astaire produced "Agatha". He has been Consultant to the Sport Division of First Artist Corp. plc since February 2009.
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.
His nephew is the writer, film producer and media advisor Simon Astaire.