![]() In 1934 he made his American film debut in "Kid Millions" with popular comic Eddie Cantor, then, while continuing to wrestle, appeared in over thirty films, including "Man on the Flying Trapeze" with W.C. He immediately found work on the wrestling circuit as "The Super Swedish Angel", a large economy size version of the International mat villain, Frenchman Maurice Tillet, who was wrestling in the United States at the time as "The French Angel". Shortening his name to "Tor Johnson", the young man journeyed to the United States and California in 1928. The husky son of Karl Johan Johansson and Lovisa Kristina Petersson, he became a professional wrestler while in his early teens. ![]() Born in Brännkyrka, Stockholms län, Sweden in 1902. ![]()
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