Very few people manage to excel in two completely different fields, but Johnny Weissmuller did. A five-time Olympic swimming champion, the Hungarian is also famous for playing the character of Tarzan ...

Before there was Michael Phelps or Mark Spitz winning Olympic gold medals for the United States — there was Tarzan. Yes Tarzan, the fictional literary and film character who was raised by apes ...

Brawny Johnny Weissmuller still makes a presentable Tarzan but he, too, shows signs of age, with a growing waistline and a minimum of athletic antics. Brenda Joyce is a decorative Jane ...

Johnny Weissmuller was swimming’s first superstar by winning ... After his swimming career, Weissmuller became a movie star. Cast as “Tarzan the Ape Man”, he starred in 12 films and became the actor ...

Performances ditto, with Johnny Weissmuller not improving as an actor, but pretty Maureen O’Sullivan, as his missus, and John Sheffield, as the junior Tarzan, compensate for him to a great extent.

The film adaptations of Edgar Burroughs' bestselling Tarzan series have had varying degrees of success in terms of critical ...

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She is most remembered for The Second Jane in Tarzan and Jane. Her zodiac sign is Pisces. American Actor Johnny Weissmuller was born Peter Johann Weissmüller on 2nd June, 1904 in Freidorf, Hungary, ...

American Actor Johnny Weissmuller was born Peter Johann Weissmüller on 2nd June, 1904 in Freidorf, Hungary, Austria-Hungary [now Timisoara, Timis County, Romania] and passed away on 20th Jan 1984 ...