Glenn Morris
Born: 1912-06-18
Died: 1974-01-31
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1948
- Olympic Cavalcade as Himself
1938
- Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty as Self - Decathlon, USA (uncredited)
- Hold That Co-ed as Spencer
- Tarzan's Revenge as Tarzan
1937
- Decathlon Champion: The Story of Glenn Morris as Glenn Morris
- She Married an Artist as Steward (uncredited)