Glenn Morris
Sign in to saveAmerican track and field athlete (1912–1974)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1912-06-18
- Died
- 1974-01-31
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Obligation for Justice
- Restored Ohio
- The new guide to North Carolina beaches
- The Martial Apprentice
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting
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…
Known for
- Olympic Cavalcade — Himself1948
- Tarzan's Revenge — Tarzan1938
- Hold That Co-ed — Spencer1938
- Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty — Self - Decathlon, USA (uncredited)1938
- She Married an Artist — Steward (uncredited)1937
- Decathlon Champion: The Story of Glenn Morris — Glenn Morris1937
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 299
- Total plays
- 802
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 29,645x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,083x
- AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility
· 2009 · cited 22,527x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,517x
- STRING v11: protein–protein association networks with increased coverage, supporting functional discovery in genome-wide experimental datasets
· 2018 · cited 15,375x
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Key dates
- Born
- 18 June 1912
- Died
- 31 January 1974
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Glenn
- Family name
- Morris
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Simla
- Place of death
- Palo Alto
- Educated at
- Colorado State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
Connections
Categories
1912 births1974 deaths20th-century American male actors20th-century American sportsmenAmerican male film actorsAmerican men decathletesAthletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer OlympicsColorado State Rams football playersColorado State Rams men's track and field athletesDetroit Lions playersJames E. Sullivan Award recipientsMedalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics