Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan signed photographRare signed 8 x 10 inch photograph of Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan Bold, spectacular signature (dated 1935) Discover more about this item here Johnny Weissmullers parents emigrated to the US from Germany when he was a baby. During the 1920s, he became a 5 gold medal winning Olympic swimming champion. At the end of the decade he made the decision to get into the movies. A chance meeting with a scriptwriter got him the role of Tarzan, King of the Apes