Tuesday, April 12, 2005

VIVA LE TOR JOHNSON!

TOR
TOR is a name you should know. And to facilitate that, here's some data and a link:
"...Tor Johnson was born in Sweden around the turn of the century and by the early 1930's was barnstorming the United States as a professional wrestler, usually under the name of the Super Swedish Angel. In 1935 he appeared as a wrestler in the W.C. Field's comedy The Man On The Flying Trapeze and for the next two decades he would continue to make fleeting film appearances while remaining one of the most popular attractions in the wrestling world. By the mid-1950's Tor had retired from wrestling and settled into a new career a movie monster. In 1944 he had his first brush with fantasy films with a bit in the Universal comedy The Ghost Catchers, starring the comedy team of Olsen and Johnson, and in 1955 he kicked off his starring career in the genre by creating the role of Lobo in Bride Of The Monster, the final starring film for Bela Lugosi. Johnson, in fact, would appear in Lugosi's final three films and he was a friend of the horror film great in the final years of his life..."

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