Acrobat. He was the patriarch of four generations of the Olimecha family in Brazil. He ran away from home in Japan at age twelve when he boarded a ship headed to Europe and then South America. The crew realized he was alone and on the ship he was adopted by a couple of artists who gave him the new name Charles Frank. Two years later, in 1878, he arrived in Brazil with a Japanese troupe of artists to perform for the Former Emperor Pedro II and was from then on known as Carlo Franco. He married the acrobat Julia Rossi and together, they started up the Circo Olimecha in 1909. They had eight boys and one girl: Manuelito, Luiz, Alfredo, Jarbas, Bartholo Tomé, Raul, Marina and Carlo Franco Olimecha Jr who were all exceptional artists and acrobats and created various troupes, such as seesaw, dandis and "throne" in the Circo Irmãos Olimecha from the 1920s to 1960s. Carlo Franco worked until 1917.