Johnny Weissmuller Net Worth

Johnny Weissmuller Net Worth is
$19 Million

Johnny Weissmuller Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Johnny Weissmuller (born Peter Johann Weissmüller; June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was an Austro-Hungarian-American competition swimmer and actor best known for playing Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s and for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century. Weissmuller was one of the world's fastest swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals for swimming and one bronze medal for water polo. He won fifty-two US National Championships, set sixty-seven world records and was purportedly undefeated in official competition for the entirety of his competitive career. After his swimming career, he became the sixth actor to portray Edgar Rice Burroughs's ape man, Tarzan, a role he played in twelve motion pictures. Dozens of other actors have also played Tarzan, but Weissmuller is by far the best known. His character's distinctive Tarzan yell is still often used in films.

Date Of Birth	June 2, 1904
Died	1984-01-20
Place Of Birth	Freidorf, Temes County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Height	6' 3" (1.91 m)
Profession	Actor
Spouse	Maria Brock Mandell Bauman
Star Sign	Gemini

#	Trademark
1	Showing his swimming skills in Tarzan films.
2	Best known as one of the most popular on screen Tarzan and for inventing his trademark roar.
3	muscular pectorals

Title	Salary
Swamp Fire (1946)	$75,000

#	Quote
1	[on always being passed over for an Academy Award] Me sit in tree seventeen years. Me watch 'em come and go.
2	If only we'd had the benefit of Ralph Helfer's affection-trained animals in the old days our films would have been a lot better, safer, and a hell of a lot more fun!
3	[on playing Tarzan] It was like stealing. There was swimming and I didn't have to say much. How can a guy climb trees, say "Me Tarzan, you Jane" and make a million?
4	Tarzan films are decent films, designed for family viewing. It's an idealistic, down-to-earth story about a man's love for animals and the care of his family.
5	I've had about as perfect a 55 years as any human could have.
6	I'd like to move into the Douglas Fairbanks type of action pictures. I'm no great actor, but my fans like me, so why shouldn't I give it a whirl?
7	I started out as a scrawny kid in Chicago, and even that was lucky. It got me to swimming. Then all the good breaks in the world happened-and kept on happening.
8	I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.
9	[on playing Tarzan in 12 films between 1932-1948] How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe.

#	Fact
1	His daughter, Heidi, died in a car crash on November 19, 1962. She was 19. She had been driving south along the Pacific Coast Highway (formerly Highway 101), on the way to return her husband Michael Houso, 19, and a friend, Frank Brownell, 17, to the naval base in San Diego where they were stationed. A few miles north of Laguna Beach, she fell asleep at the wheel and crashed. Heidi and her unborn child died. Her husband and his friend survived. According to his son, Johnny Weissmuller Jr., in his book Tarzan, My Father, Weissmuller Sr. never got over the loss of his baby daughter and unborn grandchild.
2	Johnny Weissmuller has one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century: He was one of the world's fastest swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals for swimming and one bronze medal for water polo at the Olympic Games in 1924 (Paris) and 1928 (Amsterdam). He won fifty-two U.S. National Championships, set more than fifty world records, both in freestyle and backstroke, and was purportedly undefeated in official competition for the entirety of his competitive career.
3	Natives of the village Zitiste near the town of Zrenjanin, Banat region in Serbia (near border with Romania) started a campaign to build a monument in honor of him, claiming that he was born there.(spring 2007).
4	Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 858-859. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
5	His younger brother, Peter Jr., was born in the United States (Chicago). Both boys were strong, assertive swimmers.
6	After school, he worked as a bellhop and elevator operator at the Plaza Hotel in Chicago and trained for the Olympics with a swim coach at the Illinois Athletic Club, where he developed his revolutionary high-riding front crawl. He made his amateur debut on August 6, 1921, winning his first AAU race in the 50-yard freestyle.
7	In the late 1950s after retiring from acting, Weissmuller moved back to Chicago and started a swimming pool company. He also lent his name to other business ventures, but did not have a great deal of success. He retired in 1965 and moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was Founding Chairman of the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
8	Made a cameo appearance with former "Tarzan" co-star Maureen O'Sullivan in The Phynx (1970).
9	In 1974, he broke a hip and leg. While hospitalized he learned that, in spite of his strength and lifelong daily regimen of swimming and exercise, he had a serious heart condition.
10	Moved to Las Vegas from Florida in 1973 where he was a greeter at the MGM Grand Hotel for a time.
11	His stormy third marriage to spitfire actress Lupe Velez (1933-1939) received much coverage in the Hollywood scandal sheets. The makeup man on the "Tarzan" set reportedly had quite a time of it concealing bruises and bite and scratch marks from their many fights. Lupe later committed suicide in 1944.
12	Inducted into the Body Building Guild Hall of Fame in 1976.
13	In 1970, he attended the British Commonwealth Games in Jamaica where he was presented to Queen Elizabeth.
14	During the making of the "Jungle Jim" movies, he was fined $5000 for every pound he was overweight.
15	Was the first man in the world to swim 100 m. Freestyle in less than a minute
16	He was the first speaking Tarzan and he died in January 1984, the month after the last surviving silent Tarzan, James Pierce, died.
17	During his appearance on German television show "Das aktuelle Sportstudio", a monkey removed his wife Maria's wig and threw it on the floor (1971).
18	Inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, 1983 (charter member).
19	Appears on sleeve of The Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
20	At his request, a recording of his trademark Tarzan yell which he invented was played as his coffin was lowered into the ground.
21	When Weissmuller was introduced to the first Cheetah in his Tarzan films in 1931 (he worked with 8 chimpanzees altogether), the chimp's trainer told him to show no fear or the animal would attack him. As Weissmuller, dressed in his Tarzan loincloth and hunting knife, walked up to the animal, it bared its teeth, growled at him and lunged as if to attack him. Weissmuller took the knife out of the sheath and held it in front of the chimp's nose, to make sure he saw and smelled it. He then slammed the animal on the side of the head with the knife handle. He put the knife back in its sheath and held out his hand to the chimp. It glared at him, bared his teeth again, then changed its mind, grinned at Weissmuller and jumped up and hugged him. Weissmuller never had any further problems with the chimp--although other cast and crew members did--and it followed him around like a puppy dog during all the pictures they worked together.
22	Weissmuller had a close call in Cuba during the time of the Cuban Revolution. While playing golf, he and his friends found themselves suddenly surrounded by a group of Fidel Castro's soldiers intent on kidnapping them, or worse. Thinking fast, Weissmuller immediately gave his trademark Tarzan yell. The soldiers immediately recognized it and were so delighted to meet Tarzan that they began to clap and escorted the group back to a safe area, where Weissmuller was presented a $100 bill.
23	Had three children with Beryl: Johnny Weissmuller Jr., Heidi Elizabeth Weissmuller and Wendy Anne Weissmuller.
24	Won 5 Olympic Gold Medals 1924-1928 for swimming. Broke the record in each race. From 1921-1929 he won every free style race he entered.
25	He was born in Freidorf, today Romania. His parents, Elisabetha (Kersch) and Petrus Weißmüller, a miner, were both Banat Swabians (ethnic Germans) and Hungarian citizens. They came to America when he was three years old. Because of Olympic eligibility issues, he told everyone he was born in Windber, Pennsylvania, USA.
26	Swimmer/actor, won five Olympic gold medals
27	Born at 6:30pm-LMT

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Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Savage Mutiny	1953		Jungle Jim
Voodoo Tiger	1952		Jungle Jim
Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land	1952		Jungle Jim
Jungle Manhunt	1951		Jungle Jim
Fury of the Congo	1951		Jungle Jim
Pygmy Island	1950		Jungle Jim
Captive Girl	1950		Jungle Jim
Mark of the Gorilla	1950		Jungle Jim
The Lost Tribe	1949		Jungle Jim
Jungle Jim	1948		Jungle Jim
Tarzan and the Mermaids	1948		Tarzan
Tarzan and the Huntress	1947		Tarzan
Swamp Fire	1946		Johnny Duval
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman	1946		Tarzan
Tarzan and the Amazons	1945		Tarzan
Tarzan's Desert Mystery	1943		Tarzan
Stage Door Canteen	1943		Johnny Weissmuller
Tarzan Triumphs	1943		Tarzan
Tarzan's New York Adventure	1942		Tarzan
Tarzan's Secret Treasure	1941		Tarzan
Rodeo Dough	1940	Short	Johnny Weissmuller
Tarzan Finds a Son!	1939		Tarzan
Tarzan Escapes	1936		Tarzan
Tarzan and His Mate	1934		Tarzan
Tarzan the Ape Man	1932		Tarzan
Water Bugs	1931	Short	Johnny Weissmuller, Swimming Champ
Glorifying the American Girl	1929		Adonis - Segment 'Loveland' (uncredited)
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood	1976		Stagehand 2
The Great Masquerade	1974		Sepy Debronvi
The Phynx	1970		Johnny Weissmuller
Jungle Jim	1955-1956	TV Series	Jungle Jim
Devil Goddess	1955		Johnny Weissmuller
Jungle Moon Men	1955		Johnny Weissmuller
Cannibal Attack	1954		Johnny Weissmuller
Jungle Man-Eaters	1954		Jungle Jim
Killer Ape	1953		Jungle Jim
Valley of Head Hunters	1953		Jungle Jim

Music Department

Title	Year	Status	Character
Tarzan, the Ape Man	1959	vocal effects - uncredited

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Sfide	2016	TV Series	Himself
The Mike Douglas Show	1975-1977	TV Series	Himself - Guest / Himself - Actor
It's Showtime	1976	Documentary	Himself (uncredited)
ABC Late Night	1974	TV Series	Himself
Das aktuelle Sportstudio	1971	TV Series documentary	Himself
The David Frost Show	1969	TV Series	Himself - Guest
The Ed Sullivan Show	1954-1967	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Audience Bow
Here's Hollywood	1961	TV Series	Himself
Celebrity Golf	1960	TV Series	Himself
You Bet Your Life	1958	TV Series	Himself - Tarzan / Jungle Jim
This Is Your Life	1957	TV Series	Himself
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Plays Golf	1955	Short	Himself
Screen Snapshots: Fun in the Sun	1952	Documentary short	Himself - Golf Player
Olympic Fund Telethon	1952	TV Special	Himself
Rough But Hopeful	1946	Short	Himself
Medicus Film of New York World's Fair	1940	Documentary	Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 5	1938	Documentary short	Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 10	1937	Documentary short	Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 1	1936	Documentary short	Himself
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs	1936	Short	Himself
Screen Snapshots, Series 14, No. 1	1934	Documentary short	Himself
The Human Fish	1932	Short	Himself
Swim or Sink	1931	Short	Himself
Crystal Champions	1929	Documentary short	Himself
Water Wonders	1929	Documentary short	Himself - Swimming Demonstration (as Johnny Weismuller)

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Irre sind männlich	2014		Tarzan (uncredited)
John Derek: Film Genius	2012	Short
Bettie Page Reveals All	2012	Documentary	Tarzan
MythBusters	2004	TV Series documentary	Himself
The One, the Only, the Real Tarzan	2004	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Subject
Haunts of the Black Masseur	2004	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Complicated Women	2003	TV Movie documentary	Himself (uncredited)
Hollywood Remembers	2000	TV Series documentary
60 Minutes	1999	TV Series documentary	Himself - Swimmer (segment "Andy Rooney")
Classified X	1998	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Roaring Twenties	1996	Video documentary short	Himself - at Swimming Meet (uncredited)
Tarzan at the Movies Part 1: Johnny Weissmuller	1996	Video documentary short
The Celluloid Closet	1995	Documentary	Tarzan (uncredited)
Going Hollywood: The '30s	1984	Documentary	Himself
Brooklyn Bridge	1981	Documentary	Himself (clip from "Tarzan's New York Adventure") (uncredited)
That's Entertainment, Part II	1976	Documentary	Tarzan
Hooray for Hollywood	1975	Documentary	Himself
Brother Can You Spare a Dime	1975	Documentary	Himself
The Comic	1969		Jungle Jim (uncredited)
The Judy Garland Show	1964	TV Series	Himself
Hollywood Without Make-Up	1963	Documentary	Himself
The Golden Twenties	1950	Documentary	Himself
The Yellow Cab Man	1950		Tarzan (uncredited)
The Swim Parade	1949	Documentary short	Himself / Swimmer
Sport's Golden Age	1948	Short	Himself - Olympics
Parade of Aquatic Champions	1945	Short	Johnny Weissmuller
Hollywood: Style Center of the World	1940	Documentary short	Himself
Hollywood on Parade	1934/II	Documentary short	Himself (uncredited)
Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit - Ein Film über moderne Körperkultur	1925		Himself

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Television	On 8 February 1960. At 6541 Hollywood Blvd.

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Johnny Weissmuller Net Worth

Johnny Weissmuller Net Worth is
$19 Million