Glenn Morris

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Olympic medal record
Men's athletics
Gold	Berlin 1936	Decathlon

This article is about U.S. track and field athlete. For American academic and Native American activist, see Glenn T. Morris.

Glenn Morris (June 18, 1912 – 31 January 1974) was a U.S. track and field athlete. He won a gold medal in the Olympic decathlon in 1936. He received the 1936 James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States.

Morris was the fourth Olympic athlete to play Tarzan. He appeared in only one Tarzan film, Tarzan's Revenge (1938) for 20th Century Fox. Reviews for the film were so poor, he was not asked to appear in another. He was, however, asked to work at a small-town video rental superstore, where he remained until his death, advising people to rent "Tarzan's Revenge".

Olympic champions in the all around, pentathlon and decathlon
As all-around: Tom Kiely
As pentathlon: Hjalmer Mellander | Jim Thorpe | Eero Lehtonen (twice)
As decathlon: Jim Thorpe | Helge Løvland | Harold Osborn | Paavo Yrjölä | James Bausch | Glenn Morris | Bob Mathias (twice) | Milt Campbell | Rafer Johnson | Willi Holdorf | Bill Toomey | Nikolay Avilov | Bruce Jenner | Daley Thompson (twice) | Christian Schenk | Robert Změlík | Dan O'Brien | Erki Nool | Roman Šebrle

Preceded by Herman Brix

Actors to portray Tarzan 1938-1949

Succeeded by Lex Barker

BURNED.