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Tor Johnson

Highest Rated: 80% The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)

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).

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Highest rated movies

80% 75% The Lemon Drop Kid
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71% 61% Carousel
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66% 45% Plan 9 From Outer Space
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55% 28% Bride of the Monster
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30% 20% Night of the Ghouls
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58% Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
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35% The Black Sleep
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Journey to Freedom
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8% The Beast of Yucca Flats
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Tor Johnson

Tor Johnson THE BLACK SLEEP, Tor Johnson, 1956 PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, Vampira, Tor Johnson (in grave), Dr. Tom Mason (Bela Lugosi's double), Cris Well, 1959 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 View more photos

Filmography

Movies

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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
80% 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

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