Biography

Sam Langford was born on March 4, 1883 in Weymouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Brute (1920) and Langford-Flynn Pictures (1910). He died on January 12, 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Professional boxer. Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, 1990.

Inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame, 1981.

Named the 17th greatest heavyweight of all-time by The Ring Magazine in 1998.

Nat Fleischer, the founder of The Ring magazine and a boxing historian, ranked Sam Langford the seventh greatest heavyweight of all time in 1968.