# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johnny-weissmuller
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:03:55.902Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Johann Peter Weißmüller in 1904, the Hungarian-born swimmer arrived in America and rewrote the record books: 100m freestyle and relay golds in Paris in 1924, repeated in Amsterdam in 1928, plus a 400m title and a bronze in water polo. He retired from competition with one of the century's most dominant swimming résumés. In 1932 he stepped into a loincloth for MGM's Tarzan and held the role through twelve films across sixteen years, six for MGM and six for RKO, his yell and physique sealing Edgar Rice Burroughs' ape-man in popular imagination. He followed with sixteen Jungle Jim movies and twenty-six half-hour TV episodes, spending nearly three decades in the jungle long after he'd left the water.