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Jul 19, 2020 · While 27 of the 71 passengers who had travelled on the ship died, the Weissmullers’ actions meant eleven were saved. Johnny was given the key to the city of Chicago for his bravery. He won the marathon race only two days later. And set a new record. Johnny Weissmuller - a hero who was greater off the screen than the one he presented on it.
Tarzan the Ape Man is a 1932 pre-Code American action adventure film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs ' famous jungle hero Tarzan and starring Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith and Maureen O'Sullivan. It was Weissmuller's first of 12 Tarzan films. O'Sullivan played Jane in six features between 1932 ...
Aug 6, 2021 · Johnny Weissmuller, who would go on to famously portray Tarzan in the 1932 film Tarzan the Ape Man, officially entered the competitive swimming ranks in Duluth, Minnesota at the 1921 AAU ...
Feb 28, 2024 · Johnny Weissmuller. Johnny. Weissmuller. Two-time Olympian (1924, 1928); six-time Olympic medalist (5 golds, 1 bronze) Paris 1924, gold (100-meter freestyle, 400 freestyle, 4x200 freestyle), bronze (water polo) Amsterdam 1928, gold (100 freestyle, 4x200 freestyle)
Johnny Weissmuller was a Austro-Hungarian-born American swimmer and actor. Weissmuller was one of the world’s best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal. He won fifty-two US National Championships and set sixty-seven world records. After his swimming career, he became the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in films, a […]
TARZAN, THE APE MAN 80th Anniversary! Former Olympic swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller was the screen’s most iconic Tarzan, with his impressive physique and charming naivete–”the only man in Hollywood who’s natural in the flesh and can act without clothes,” as MGM billed him. In search of the legendary Elephant’s Graveyard, and ...
WEISSMULLER, Peter John ("Johnny")(b. 2 June 1904 in Freidorf, Austro-Hungarian Empire [now Romania]; d. 20 January 1984 in Acapulco, Mexico), champion swimmer who won five Olympic gold medals and fifty-two national championships and established sixty-seven world swimming records; he also popularized the film character Tarzan.
