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 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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.412 |
Birthday | 1912-06-18 |
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1938
Tarzan's Revenge
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Eleanor and her parents are hunting big game, acompanied by her wimpish fiance.
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Tarzan's Revenge
1938
Hold That Co-ed
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An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
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Hold That Co-ed
1938
Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty
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Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form. Whe...
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Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty
1937
She Married an Artist
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Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged to spend virtually all his time with Sally, which p...
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She Married an Artist
1948
Olympic Cavalcade
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Documentary footage recaptures the excitement of the 1948 London Olympics, the first games since 1936.
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Olympic Cavalcade
1937
Decathlon Champion: The Story of Glenn Morris
6/1
This Pete Smith Specialty tells how Glenn Morris trained for and won the 1936 Olympic decathlon event.
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