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The series was less a game show than a carny-booth showcase for Groucho's humorous quips, eye-rolling double-takes, and sarcastic asides.


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The number one of the one page comics, "Tor Johnson at Home", was published in a 1981 effect 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 late 1960s-early 1970s".After decades in vaudeville and films with his madcap brothers, GROUCHO MARX moved to TV in the 1950s hosting a weekly comedy-quiz program, You Bet Your Life.

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 featured 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, so-called 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 allocated 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, referenced 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 make-up appearances on television and presentation 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, ordinarily 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 submits an defining and villainous outline in his wrestling and acting work. Johnson stood 6'3" and weighed 440 pounds 200 kg at his heaviest. His death security system 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 many B-movies, including some famously directed by Ed Wood. Karl Erik Tore Johansson 19 October 1902 or 1903 control differ –, better known by the stage clear Tor Johnson, was a Swedish able wrestler together with actor.
