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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% 60% 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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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
The Beast of Yucca Flats 8% 1961 Joseph Javorsky/The Beast Actor Night of the Ghouls 30% 20% 1959 Lobo Actor Plan 9 From Outer Space 66% 45% 1959 Insp. Dan Clay Actor Journey to Freedom 1957 Giant Turk Actor Carousel 71% 60% 1956 Strong Man (uncredited) Actor The Black Sleep 35% 1956 Mr. Curry Actor Bride of the Monster 55% 28% 1955 Lobo Actor The Lemon Drop Kid 80% 75% 1951 Super Swedish Angel (wrestler) Actor Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion 58% 1950 Abou Ben Actor
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