Merlin Olsen
An American football player, announcer, and actor, Merlin Olsen played his entire 15-year professional football career in the NFL. He was a defensive tackle for the Los Angeles Rams. Not to mention that he was selected to the Pro Bowl a record 14 straight times, only missing the selection in his last year. After his retirement from the football field, he became an actor, he played farmer Jonathan Garvey on Little House on the Prairie. Once he left the series, he played the lead in his own NBC drama, Father Murphy.
Merlin Olsen
Johnny Weissmuller
Johnny Weissmuller was an Austro-Hungarian-born American competition swimmer and actor. His most famous role was as the ape-man Tarzan in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ films in the 1930s and 1940s. To top it off, he had one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century. In the 1920s, Weissmuller was one of the world’s fastest swimmers, winning five Olympic gold medals for swimming as well as one bronze medal for water polo. Once he retired from competitions, he became the sixth actor to play Tarzan and ended up playing the role in twelve films.
Johnny Weissmuller
