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It’s an awe-inspiring, almost mystical trait that few humans possess, something that can’t be learned in any film school. Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, John Wayne all of these greats had something about them that rendered the audience incapable of taking their eyes off of them, even when said actors were very clearly sleepwalking through their scenes to collect a paycheck.

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No, to make a splash in Hollywood, an actor needs something more, something almost indefinable, a kind of magnetism, a certain je ne se quois that sets him or her apart from the rest of the people standing around on the set while the Director of Photography yet again argues with the Director on the framing of yet another talky two-shot.Įvery successful actor in movie history had this. And, sometimes, not even that (yes, Shia Labeouf, I’m talking directly to you). The number one of the one page comics, 'Tor Johnson at Home', was published in a 1981 issue of Robert Crumb's Weirdo, and the original artwork was purchased by television writer and producer Eddie Gorodetsky.Ī latex mask based on Johnson's face, sculpted by Pat Newman for Don Post Studios, is described as 'the best-selling Halloween horror mask of the slow 1960s-early 1970s'.A successful movie actor has to be more than merely a competent performer.

Johnson was featured extensively in the early work of cartoonist Drew Friedman, where Johnson was depicted as 'Tor', a slow-witted, white-eyed lummox based on Johnson's persona in Ed Wood's films. Johnson was exposed by wrestler George 'The Animal' Steele in Tim Burton's film Ed Wood 1994. Johnson died of eternal Valley Memorial Park, in Santa Clarita, California. The name was derived from wrestler Maurice Tillet, asked as the French Angel.ĭuring his career as an actor, Johnson befriended director Ed Wood, who directed him in a number of films, including Bride of the Monster and Plan 9 from Outer Space writing for Turner Classic Movies, film critic Donald Liebenson sent Johnson's performance in Plan 9 as 'gonzo.' Johnson was very friendly to work with actress Valda Hansen, who worked with Johnson in 1959's Night of the Ghouls, subjected him as 'like a big sugar bun.' During this period, Johnson appeared as a guest contestant on the quiz show You Bet Your Life, during which he showed the show's host, Groucho Marx, his 'scariest face.' Marx ran off the stage in mock terror, then returned and pleaded: 'Don't make that face again!' Death and legacy Tor Johnson used the ring name Super Swedish Angel to distinguish himself from Nils Phillip Olafsson who used the ring name Swedish Angel. However, he continued to work appearances on television and filed a number of commercials. His film career ended in the early 1960s, after he appeared in a string of poorly-rated films.

He began getting bit parts in films upon moving to California, usually as the strongman or weightlifter, as early as 1934.

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He had a full head of blonde hair, but shaved it to sustains an determining and villainous order in his wrestling and acting work.

Johnson stood 6'3' and weighed 440 pounds 200 kg at his heaviest. His death certificate and grave list 1903 as the year of his birth, contradicting published genealogy records.

Johnson was born on 19 October 1902 in Brännkyrka, Stockholms län, Sweden, the son of Karl Johan Johansson and Lovisa Kristina Pettersson.

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In professional wrestling, Johnson was billed as Tor Johnson in addition to Super Swedish Angel. As an actor, Johnson appeared in numerous B-movies, including some famously directed by Ed Wood. Karl Erik Tore Johansson 19 October 1902 or 1903 predominance differ –, better asked by the stage clear Tor Johnson, was a Swedish excellent wrestler in addition to actor.

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