American Buster Crabbe also played the role after winning gold at the Olympics.
There was even a possibility that Michael Phelps might have gone on to follow in their footsteps, but that didn’t work out too well for him.
Back in the 1930s and 40s Johnny Weismuller was a Hungarian swimmer who famously played Tarzan in a series of films.
Casting swimmers as actors is actually in the classic Hollywood tradition.
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