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Weissmuller, Johnny (1904–1984)| Romanian-born US swimmer and film actor. He won three Olympic gold medals in 1924 and two more in 1928. He set freestyle world records at every distance between 100 yards and half a mile, many of them by remarkable margins. The first person to swim the 100 metres in under a minute and the 400 metres in less than five minutes, he transformed freestyle swimming in the 1920s with his revolutionary high crawl style. |
| As an actor he played Edgar Rice Burroughs's rainforest hero Tarzan in a long-running series of films in the 1930s and 1940s, including Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), Tarzan and His Mate (1934), and Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948). He later starred in the Jungle Jim series of B films. |
Olympic Games gold 100-metre freestyle 1924, 1928; gold 400-metre freestyle 1924; gold 200-metre freestyle relay 1924, 1928 |
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