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Johnny Weissmuller (syntyjään saksalaisittain Johann, unkarilaisittain János, 2. kesäkuuta 1904 Freidorf, Itävalta-Unkari (nyk. Romania ) – 20. tammikuuta 1984 Acapulco , Meksiko ) oli yhdysvaltalainen uimari ja viisinkertainen olympiavoittaja vuosien 1924 ja 1928 olympialaisissa sekä Tarzan -elokuvien pääosanäyttelijä vuosina 1932 ...
Tarzan the Ape Man: Directed by W.S. Van Dyke. With Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith, Maureen O'Sullivan. A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes.
Johnny Weissmuller, 1940s. Johnny Weissmuller (June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal. He won 52 US National Championships and set 67 world records. Weissmuller understood the potential role that athletic competition could play in the world.
Weissmuller’s German-speaking family left Banat for America in 1904, shortly after Johnny’s birth, settling first in Pennsylvania, where many other Austrians and Germans lived (and where brother Peter was born in 1905), and later in Chicago, another Germanic stronghold and the home of Weissmuller’s maternal grandparents.
Oct 22, 2021 · “Johnny Weissmuller was the first swimmer to bring the sport into the mainstream with his popularity, especially with his subsequent Tarzan roles,” said Bill Mallon, one of the world’s ...
Athletic Career Johnny Weissmuller set 67 swimming world records in distances from 50 yards to 880 yards (the half-mile) – the track equivalent of a 100-yard dash to a two-mile run. He won 52 National Championships in all, and his record of 38 individual US National Championships stood for nearly six decades. He was the […]
Kildehenvisninger foreligger sammesteds. Peter János Weissmüller ( 2. juni 1904 – 20. januar 1984 ), bedre kendt som Johnny Weissmuller spillede Tarzan i 19 film og betragtes som "verdens bedste Tarzan". Han var også en af verdens bedste svømmere og satte i 1920'erne 67 verdensrekorder. Han opnåede i alt fem guldmedaljer ved Sommer-OL ...
