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 ...
Upon his death, his remains were interred at Skylawn Memorial Park in San Mateo, California. His location plot is Garden of Inspiration for Lot 2315.
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Won the Gold Medal in the Decathlon at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany - the so-called "Nazi Olympics" and the same Olympics where Jesse Owens upstaged Adolph Hitler.
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Interred at Skylawn Memorial Park, San Mateo, California.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hold That Co-ed
1938
Spencer
Tarzan's Revenge
1938
Tarzan
She Married an Artist
1937
Steward (uncredited)
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
1938
Documentary
Himself - Decathlon, USA
Decathlon Champion: The Story of Glenn Morris
1937
Short
Himself - Glenn Morris
Berlin 1936: Games of the XI Olympiad
1936
TV Mini-Series
Himself, decathlon winner
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Naked Archaeologist
2008
TV Series
Tarzan
Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan
$14 Million