- He was an avid fisherman who especially loved deep-sea fishing. He had friends on all three American coasts who would take him out before his circus performances.
- When he joined "Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus", he learned more from their star trainer Peter Taylor. When he was stricken with a neck injury in 1925, Taylor could not continue his major lion-and-tiger act, and Clyde Beatty took it over at once. With his exciting performing style, he became such a sensation the public filled the tent even during the Depression.
- He starred with "Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus" until 1934, when a dispute with "Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey Circus" management caused him to sign with a new circus, called the "Cole Bros Circus".
- Beatty's circus sometimes featured cowboy star Bob Steele, whom Beatty befriended during his days at Mascot Studios, and Sunset Carson.
- Ran away from home in 1921 to join the Howes Great London Circus, as a cageboy and assistant trainer to "Captain" Louis Roth; called the "world's greatest wild animal trainer" by Louis Goebel, the creator of Jungleland USA.
- Worked with Gene Holter on his Movieland Animal Park in Bloomington, California.
- The plaque on his burial crypt in Forest Lawn Memorial Park incorrectly lists 1902 as his birth year. He was born in 1903.
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