Glenn Morris
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men's Athletics | |||
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| Gold | 1936 Berlin | Decathlon | |
This article is about U.S. track and field athlete. For American academic and Native American activist, see Glenn T. Morris.
Glenn Edward 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.
During the Olympics, he had an affair with German documenter Leni Riefenstahl. After winning the gold medal, he ripped open Riefenstahl's shirt and kissed her breasts, in front of the audience of 100,000 people.[1]
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.
| Olympic champions in the all around, pentathlon and decathlon |
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| 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 |
Succeeded by Lex Barker |
