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Glenn Morris
Glenn Morris was the fourth Olympic athlete to play Tarzan. He was the 1936 decathlon champion and won the Sullivan Award (outstanding amateur athlete of the year) over the more f…
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Glenn Morris was the fourth Olympic athlete to play Tarzan. He was the 1936 decathlon champion and won the Sullivan Award (outstanding amateur athlete of the year) over the more famous Olympian Jesse Owens. Sol Lesser cast Morris for an independent Tarzan, filmed on Twentieth Century-Fox back lots. The reviews were so thoroughly bad that Morris never made another movie. He went into the insurance business in Los Angeles. He enlisted in the Navy after Pearl Harbor, was wounded in combat from which he spent much time in San Francisco's Navy Hospital.
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1948
Olympic Cavalcade
Movie Himself
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1938
Hold That Co-ed
Movie Spencer
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1938
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
Movie Self - Decathlon, USA (uncredited)
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1938
Tarzan's Revenge
Movie Tarzan
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1937
She Married an Artist
Movie Steward (uncredited)
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1937
Decathlon Champion: The Story of Glenn Morris
Movie Glenn Morris
