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Johnny Weissmuller

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Johnny Weissmuller

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Also known as Peter Johann Weißmüller, Petros János Weiszmüller, Johnny Weissmüller, Peter John Weissmuller

American swimmer, water polo player, and actor (1904–1984)

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Johnny Weissmuller was an American swimmer and actor whose professional career spanned from 1931 to 1976. Born on June 2, 1904, he died in January 1984. Standing at a height of 191, he competed in watersports as a player. His literary contributions include the works *Tarzan my father* and *Swimming the American crawl*.

Weissmuller is recognized in the Hollywood Walk of Fame collection. His official website is johnnyweissmuller.com.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Open Library, Thesportsdb, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
2

Top works

  • Tarzan my father
  • Swimming the American crawl

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
11
Total plays
17

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A Perivascular Origin for Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Multiple Human Organs

    · 2008 · cited 3,370x

  2. Accurate whole human genome sequencing using reversible terminator chemistry

    · 2008 · cited 3,021x

  3. Tropical cyclones and climate change

    · 2010 · cited 2,666x

  4. Traumatic brain injury: integrated approaches to improve prevention, clinical care, and research

    · 2017 · cited 2,290x

  5. Synthetic fibers in atmospheric fallout: A source of microplastics in the environment?

    · 2016 · cited 2,043x

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Sports profile

Sport
Watersports
Team
_Deceased Swimming
Position
Swimmer
Nationality
United States

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Johnny
Gender
male
Citizenship
Hungary
Place of birth
Freidorf
Place of death
Acapulco de Juárez
Child
Johnny Weissmuller Jr.
Occupation
television actor
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
German
Award
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Sport
water polo
Country for sport
United States
Official website
johnnyweissmuller.com
Image
Johny Weissmuller-publicity.JPG
Height
191
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Commons category
Johnny Weissmuller
date of birth
1904-06-02
date of death
1984-01-21
nickname
Johnny
birth name
Weissmüller János
start of work period
1931-00-00
cause of death
pulmonary edema
manner of death
natural causes
end of work period
1976-00-00
writing language
English language
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Encyclopedic overview

Johnny Weissmuller (/ˈwaɪsmʌlər/ WYSSE-mul-ər; born Johann Peter Weißmüller, German: [ˈjoːhan ˈpeːtɐ ˈvaɪsmʏlɐ]; June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was a Hungarian-born German American Olympic swimmer, water polo player and actor. He has one of the best competitive-swimming records of the 20th century. He set world records alongside winning five gold medals in the Olympics. He won the 100m freestyle and the 4 × 200 m relay team event in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Weissmuller also won gold in the 400m freestyle, as well as a bronze medal in the water polo competition in Paris.

Following his retirement from swimming, Weissmuller played Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan in twelve feature films from 1932 to 1948; six were produced by MGM, and six additional films by RKO. Weissmuller went on to star in sixteen Jungle Jim movies over an eight-year period, then filmed 26 additional half-hour episodes of the Jungle Jim TV series.

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