by HF | Jan 18, 2016
Book Review: Tarzan, My Father A Review by Hyde Flippo Tarzan, My Father Kindle, Paperback, Hardcover – Feb. 1, 2008 by Johnny Weissmuller, Danton Burroughs (Foreword), William Reed (Contributor), W Craig Reed (Contributor) The first and only “authorized biography” of...
by HF | Jan 18, 2016
A Conversation with Johnny Weissmuller Jr. Johnny Weissmuller Jr. dead at age 65. | Not long after this interview, it was with great sadness that we noted the death of Tarzan’s son, Johnny Weissmuller Jr. (John Scott Weissmuller), on July 28, 2006 in the San Francisco...
by HF | Jan 18, 2016
Tarzan Films: Weissmuller and the German-Hollywood Connection Tarzan: Johnny Weissmuller > Tarzan Movies Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) published his first serialized Tarzan story in 1912, Tarzan of the Apes. The book version came out in 1914. By 1947 he had...
by HF | Jan 18, 2016
First Film Roles Continued from Tarzan: Johnny Weissmuller – Part 1. So how did the boy from Banat, Pennsylvania, and Chicago end up in the jungles of MGM and RKO? Weissmuller’s first film role was set in the jungle of New York’s Broadway. On the basis of his...
by HF | Jan 18, 2016
Johann Peter Weißmüller Much of what we think we know about Johnny Weissmuller is wrong. The fact that he was not born in the United States was a secret the family kept and that Johnny took to his grave. Not even his own children knew that their father had been born...
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