When he did You Bet Your Life, he weighed 367 pounds. He said that Night of the Ghouls Lobo was the same as Bride of the Monster Lobo.) And in fact, it seems as though his work for Wood and for Coleman Francis in The Beast of Yucca Flats killed his career.īut it’s true that there’s not a lot of work just in general for men who look like Tor Johnson. (In fact, he said he played two different Lobos, one who could talk and one who couldn’t. Almost all of his roles were some wrestler or another, in fact, and the one thing you have to say is that Bride of the Monster gave him a different character to play. He’s even in some good movies-when Nick and Nora go to the wrestling match in Shadow of the Thin Man, he’s one of the wrestlers. He had actually been acting longer than Wood directed. It’s just that he was an enormous pussycat with a past as a wrestling villain and a thick, halting voice. He’d apparently have people over to his house for enormous home-cooked meals his wife, Greta, didn’t like his movies, because she didn’t like how they portrayed her husband. The thing you hear most often from people who knew the man, not just the movies, was that he was nice.
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