Fields, 'Shadow of the Thin Man' with William Powell and Myrna Loy, 'Canterville Ghost' with Charles Laughton, 'Lost in a Harem' with Abbott & Costello, 'Ghost Catchers' with Olsen & Johnson, 'Road to Rio' with Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour, 'State of the Union' with Spencer Tracy and Kathryn Hepburn, 'Alias the Champ' with fellow-grappler Gorgeous George, 'The Lemon Drop Kid' with Bob Hope, 'The Black Sleep' with Basil Rathbone, John Carradine, and Bela Lugosi, 'Carousel' with Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones', and perhaps his most (in)famous film of them all, 'Plan 9 from Outer Space' with Bela Lugosi and Vampira, for writer-director Ed Wood. In 1934 he made his American film debut in 'Kid Millions' with popular comic Eddie Cantor, then, while continuing to wrestle, appeared in over thirty films, including 'Man on the Flying Trapeze' with W.C. He immediately found work on the wrestling circuit as 'The Super Swedish Angel', a large economy size version of the International mat villain, Frenchman Maurice Tillet, who was wrestling in the United States at the time as 'The French Angel'. Shortening his name to 'Tor Johnson', the young man journeyed to the United States and California in 1928.

The husky son of Karl Johan Johansson and Lovisa Kristina Petersson, he became a professional wrestler while in his early teens. Born in Brännkyrka, Stockholms län, Sweden in 1902.

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