Glenn Morris

Born: 1912-06-18

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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Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty

as Self - Decathlon, USA (uncredited)
Released: 1938-06-02

Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni...

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Tarzan's Revenge

as Tarzan
Released: 1938-01-07

Eleanor and her parents are hunting big game, acompanied by her wimpish fiance.

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Hold That Co-ed

as Spencer
Released: 1938-09-16

An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless...

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She Married an Artist

as Steward (uncredited)
Released: 1937-11-27

Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is...

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