Stafford Bullen

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Stafford Bullen
Kenneth Bullen, Perc Bullen, and Stafford Bullen.
Personal details

Spouse(s)	Cleo Bullen

Country	Australia

Locations
Title	owner 1971-1988
Location	at Wanneroo Lion Park in Australia

Title	owner 1969-1985
Location	at Bullen's Animal World in Australia

Title	owner 1968-1991
Location	at Bullen's African Lion Safari in Warragamba in Australia

Title	director 1965-1969
Location	at Bullen's Circus in Australia

Biography details

Stafford Bullen , zoo director in Australia

Born 1925 in Australia dead 2001 in Australia , son of director Perc Bullen and director Lilian Bullen .

Stafford Bullen (20 March 1925, Bathurst, New South Wales - 12 November 2001, Sydney) was an Australian circus proprietor and co-founder of the African Lion Safari (Warragamba).

Bullen was born to parents Alfred Bullen and Lilian Bullen, who in 1920 founded Bullen's Circus in Australia. His circus career began at four, travelling the country as a child. He had a tutor and was an above average student, yet his formal education ceased at age fourteen.

Stafford and his brother Ken Bullen ran the family business after their mother died in 1965.

Stafford married Cleo Rinaldo, whos father Joseph Rinaldo was an Austrian stuntman, and her mother Freda Cuthbert, was a snake charmer and lion tamer with South African Bostock and Wombwell's Circus. Stafford and Cleo had four children: Mark Bullen, Brenton Bullen, Sonya Bullen and Craig Bullen.

Stafford Bullen, far right Cleo, my aunty Betty, unidentied person, aunty Jean.
Craig Bullen

In 1968 they opened the In 1968, he opened the African Lion Safari (Warragamba) near Warragamba Dam. It attracted over 200,000 visitors annually.

In 1969 Stafford Bullen opened Bullen's Animal World at Wallacia, New South Wales.

Bimbo, Craig Bullen, Sabu, Stafford Bullen, Siam, Brenton Bullen. Brenton Bullen lived at Australia Zoo with three of the elephants that he grew up with: Siam, Sabu and Bimbo. Two of the Bullen elephants died during 2013, and the last Bullen elephant were relocated back to the Circus shortly afterwards, but died in 2019.

Family

Total: 3 children

Mark Bullen. Born: ?. Dead: † ?
Craig Bullen. Born: ?.
Brenton Bullen. Born: ?.

Siblings

Siblings through the father Perc Bullen (1896-02-08 -- 1974-08-11):

Stafford Bullen s ancestral Ahnentafel:
P	I	II	III
Stafford Bullen Born: 1925	Father: Alfred Bullen Born: 1896-02-08	Paternal Grandfather: Born:	Paternal Great-grandfather:
		Paternal Grandfather: Born:	Paternal Great-grandmother:
		Paternal Grandmother: Born:	Paternal Great-grandfather::
		Paternal Grandmother: Born:	Paternal Great-grandmother:
	Mother: Lilian Croan Born: 1894	Maternal Grandfather: Born:	Maternal Great-grandfather:
		Maternal Grandfather: Born:	Maternal Great-grandmother:
		Maternal Grandmother: Born:	Maternal Great-grandfather:
		Maternal Grandmother: Born:	Maternal Great-grandmother:

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). director Stafford Bullen in Australia. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 25 April 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=454. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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