Glenn Morris(1912-1974)
- Actor
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.
