81-Year-old Barnum And Bailey Clown Still Makes Them Laugh -- 81-year-old Harry Russell photographed at work among some of his grotesque giant heads which he makes. In a white-washed shed in Norwood High Street, West Norwood, a youthful old man with a bushy mop of white hair continues a long life of making people laugh. 81-year-old Mr. Harry Russell was once a famous clown with Barnum and Bailey's circus, an claims to be its oldest survivor. He now spends his days making the giant papier mache