Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984), who played the role of Tarzan in films made during the 1930s, was one of the best swimmers of the twentieth century. He won five Olympic gold medals, set 24 world records, and won 51 AAU titles. Although many older...

Although he first achieved fame as a free-style swimmer who won five Olympic gold medals and set 67 world records, Johnny Weissmuller is best known for his film role as Tarzan, King of the Jungle, who had been abandoned in the African wild as an...

Johnny Weissmuller (June 2 1904 – January 20 1984) was an American swimmer and actor who was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal. He won fifty-two US National Championships and set...

Johnny Weissmuller Jr., son of the Olympic athlete famous for playing Tarzan in 1930s and 40s movies, died of cancer July 27 in San Francisco. He was 65. He was the first of three children of the film star and his third...

Byline: David Gardner IT is 76 years since Cheeta the chimp was plucked from the Africanjungle to become a Hollywood star in the Tarzan movies. Yet incredibly, he is still going strong. The oldest known living chimpanzee is living out...

Gordon Scott, a handsome, muscular actor who portrayed an "intelligent and nice" Tarzan in 1950s movies, has died. He was 80. Scott, who had been living in a working class section of south Baltimore, died Monday at Johns Hopkins Hospital of post-heart surgery complications, a...

Tiny L. Laster Jr.HAMPTON, Va. (AP) _ Tiny L. Laster Jr., the longtime Hampton University women's coach who led the softball team to a regular-season championship on Tuesday, died Thursday from kidney failure, the school said. He was 61.Laster was undergoing dialysis treatment twice a...