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      Tor Johnson

      Tor Johnson

      Highest Rated: 71% Carousel (1956)

      Lowest Rated: 30% Night of the Ghouls (1959)

      Birthday: Oct 19, 1903

      Birthplace: Kalmar, Sweden

      Hulking, bald-pated Swedish wrestler who began making film appearances in the 1940s and became a minor cult figure playing mute, mindless killers in a number of schlock horror films, most notably in the films of Edward D. Wood Jr. After years in the ring, Johnson played bits in the Ole Olsen and Chick Johnson comedy "Ghost Catchers" (1944) and the low-budget film noir "Behind Locked Doors" (1948). His first film for Wood was the execrable but, unintentionally, hilarious "Bride of the Monster" (1956), in which he originated the role of the mute, scarred Lobo, a role he reprised in Wood's "Night of the Ghouls" (1959) and in the non-Wood directed "The Unearthly" (1957).

      Highest rated movies

      Carousel
      Plan 9 From Outer Space
      Bride of the Monster
      Night of the Ghouls

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      PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, Vampira, Tor Johnson (in grave), Dr. Tom Mason (Bela Lugosi's double), Cris Well, 1959 THE BLACK SLEEP, Tor Johnson, 1956 PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, Tor Johnson, Vampira, 1959 NIGHT OF THE GHOULS, William C. Thompson (cinematographer, left w/light meter), Tor Johnson (in make-up) and Director Edward D. Wood Jr. (right) on set, 1959 THE BLACK SLEEP, Tor Johnson, Lon Chaney, Jr. George Sawaya, John Carradine, 1956 THE BLACK SLEEP, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney, Jr., Akim Tamiroff, Basil Rathbone, Tor Johnson, Herbert Rudley, John Carradine, 1956 THE BLACK SLEEP, from left: Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Tor Johnson (back), Patricia Blair (front), George Sawaya, Sally Yarnell, 1956 LADY IN THE IRON MASK, Tor Johnson, Patricia Medina, 1952, (c) 20th Century Fox, TM & Copyright BRIDE OF THE MONSTER, Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson (right), 1955 BRIDE OF THE MONSTER, Tor Johnson, Bela Lugosi, 1955 THE BLACK SLEEP, Tor Johnson, John Carradine, 1956 THE REFORMER AND THE REDHEAD, David Wayne, June Allyson, Tor Johnson, Dick Powell, 1950 BEHIND LOCKED DOORS, Lucille Bremer, Richard Carlson, Tor Johnson, 1948. PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, Tor Johnson, Tom Mason (doubling for Bela Lugosi), 1959 BEHIND LOCKED DOORS, Lucille Bremer, Tor Johnson, 1948 PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, Vampira, Tor Johnson, 1959 Good Morning America, Tor Johnson, 11/03/1975, ©ABC Good Morning America, Tor Johnson, 11/03/1975, ©ABC THE BLACK SLEEP, (bottom), Tor Johnson, Basil Rathbone, (top), Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, 1956 PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, Dudley Manlove, Tor Johnson, John 'Bunny' Breckinridge, Joanna Lee, 1959
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      No Score Yet 8% The Beast of Yucca Flats Joseph Javorsky/The Beast (Character) - 1961
      30% 20% Night of the Ghouls Lobo (Character) - 1959
      66% 45% Plan 9 From Outer Space Insp. Dan Clay (Character) - 1959
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Journey to Freedom Giant Turk (Character) - 1957
      71% 61% Carousel Strong Man (uncredited) (Character) - 1956
      No Score Yet 35% The Black Sleep Mr. Curry (Character) - 1956
      55% 28% Bride of the Monster Lobo (Character) - 1955
      No Score Yet 75% The Lemon Drop Kid Super Swedish Angel (wrestler) (Character) - 1951
      No Score Yet 58% Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion Abou Ben (Character) - 1950

      TV

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Bonanza Busthead Brannigan (Guest Star) 1960