Glenn Morris
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.
Known For
Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave the main stadium and venture into the many halls and fields deployed for such sports as fencing, polo, cycling, and the modern pentathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris.
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged to spend virtually all his time with Sally, which prompts Toni to seek retribution in divorce court.
She Married an Artist
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
Hold That Co-ed
Eleanor and her parents are hunting big game, acompanied by her wimpish fiance.
Tarzan's Revenge
Documentary footage recaptures the excitement of the 1948 London Olympics, the first games since 1936.
Olympic Cavalcade
This Pete Smith Specialty tells how Glenn Morris trained for and won the 1936 Olympic decathlon event.