Jim Thorpe

Jim Thorpe

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James Francis Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as "Bright Path"; May 22 or 28, 1887 – March 28, 1953) was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe became the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, and played American football (collegiate and professional), professional baseball, and basketball. He lost his Olympic titles after it was found he had been paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, thus violating the amateurism rules that were then in place. In 1983, 30 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) restored his Olympic medals. Thorpe grew up in the Sac and Fox Nation in Oklahoma, and attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he was a two-time All-American for the school's football team. After his Olympic success in 1912, which included a record score in the decathlon, he added a victory in the All-Around Championship of the Amateur Athletic Union. In 1913, Thorpe signed with the New York Giants, and he played six seasons in Major League Baseball between 1913 and 1919. Thorpe joined the Canton Bulldogs American football team in 1915, helping them win three professional championships; he later played for six teams in the National Football League (NFL). He played as part of several all-American Indian teams throughout his career, and barnstormed as a professional basketball player with a team composed entirely of American Indians. From 1920 to 1921, Thorpe was nominally the first president of the American Professional Football Association (APFA), which became the NFL in 1922. He played professional sports until age 41, the end of his sports career coinciding with the start of the Great Depression. He struggled to earn a living after that, working several odd jobs. He suffered from alcoholism, and lived his last years in failing health and poverty. He was married three times and had eight children, before suffering from heart failure and dying in 1953. Thorpe has received various accolades for his athletic accomplishments. The Associated Press named him the "greatest athlete" from the first 50 years of the 20th century, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame inducted him as part of its inaugural class in 1963. A Pennsylvania town was named in his honor and a monument site there is the site of his remains, which were the subject of legal action. Thorpe appeared in several films and was portrayed by Burt Lancaster in the 1951 film Jim Thorpe – All-American.

  • Title: Jim Thorpe
  • Popularity: 0.717
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1887-05-22
  • Place of Birth: Prague, Indian Territory [now Oklahoma], USA
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  • Also Known As: James Thorpe, Wathahuck-Brightpath, James Francis Thorpe
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  • 1932
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    Off His Base

    Off His Base

    1 1932 HD

    It begins with the Mustangs in trouble in their championship series... all the players are banged up and they're being clobbered. But a sports...

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  • 1950
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    Wagon Master

    Wagon Master

    6.7 1950 HD

    Two young horse traders guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter rugged terrain, the cutthroat Clegg gang, hospitable Navajo,...

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  • 1932
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    The Dark Horse

    The Dark Horse

    7.2 1932 HD

    The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal...

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  • 1939
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    The Man from Texas

    The Man from Texas

    1 1939 HD

    Hall is after Dennison's land and hires the Shooting Kid to finish him off. The Marshal sends Tex to help Dennison, but the Kid has been helped by...

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  • 1938
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    Frontier Scout

    Frontier Scout

    4.5 1938 HD

    Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John).

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    Air Mail

    Air Mail

    5.5 1932 HD

    A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.

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  • 1935
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    Code of the Mounted

    Code of the Mounted

    5 1935 HD

    A thug robs and kills a fur trapper. He is caught and locked up by the Mounties, but is soon broken out by his partner. As the Mounties investigate,...

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    Sweepings

    Sweepings

    5.8 1933 HD

    Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the...

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  • 1936
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    Wildcat Trooper

    Wildcat Trooper

    4.5 1936 HD

    A Royal Canadian Mountie is assigned to bring in a criminal called "The Raven." The problem is that no one has ever seen him.

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    My Pal, the King

    My Pal, the King

    1 1932 HD

    The king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus.

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  • 1936
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    Hill-Tillies

    Hill-Tillies

    4 1936 HD

    The girls camp out in the woods for a publicity stunt.

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    Sutter's Gold

    Sutter's Gold

    1 1936 HD

    Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

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  • 1938
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    Start Cheering

    Start Cheering

    7 1938 HD

    After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

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  • 1936
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    Treachery Rides the Range

    Treachery Rides the Range

    1 1936 HD

    The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. But Carter, of Carter and Barton, just...

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  • 1939
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    Henry Goes Arizona

    Henry Goes Arizona

    6 1939 HD

    A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.

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    Klondike Annie

    Klondike Annie

    6.4 1936 HD

    A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.

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  • 1934
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    The Red Rider

    The Red Rider

    4 1934 HD

    "Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's...

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  • 1949
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    White Heat

    White Heat

    7.6 1949 HD

    A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After...

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  • 1935
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    The Daring Young Man

    The Daring Young Man

    1 1935 HD

    The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by...

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    Trailin' West

    Trailin' West

    1 1936 HD

    A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request.

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    Moonlight on the Prairie

    Moonlight on the Prairie

    5.5 1935 HD

    A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.

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  • 1935
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    The Arizonian

    The Arizonian

    1 1935 HD

    Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore...

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  • 1935
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    It's in the Air

    It's in the Air

    5 1935 HD

    Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife,...

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  • 1935
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    La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

    La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

    5.818 1935 HD

    La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy...

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  • 1945
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    The Vampire's Ghost

    The Vampire's Ghost

    5.2 1945 HD

    In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a old man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his "life" of...

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  • 1936
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    Silly Billies

    Silly Billies

    8 1936 HD

    The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the...

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  • 1940
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    Arizona Frontier

    Arizona Frontier

    1 1940 HD

    A government agent uncovers the truth behind a series of raids on a freight company.

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  • 1944
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    Outlaw Trail

    Outlaw Trail

    1 1944 HD

    Carl Beldon has disappeared and the Trail Blazers have been sent to investigate. Arriving in town, they find that 'Honest John' controls everything....

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  • 1940
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    Prairie Schooners

    Prairie Schooners

    1 1940 HD

    Wild Bill Hickok (Bill Elliott) leads a wagon train of settlers from Kansas to Colorado. Along the way, they cross a group of Indians who don't want...

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    Wild Horse Mesa

    Wild Horse Mesa

    1 1932 HD

    Chane Weymer, an Arizona rancher, goes after a gang that is trapping wild horses by the use of barbed-wire enclosures.

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  • 1935
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    Rustlers of Red Dog

    Rustlers of Red Dog

    8 1935 HD

    A movie serial in 12 chapters: After gold is discovered in the town of Nugget, the titular band of thieves and cutthroats inundates the frontier...

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  • 1941
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    They Died with Their Boots On

    They Died with Their Boots On

    6.6 1941 HD

    The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains...

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  • 1940
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    Mexican Spitfire Out West

    Mexican Spitfire Out West

    4.6 1940 HD

    Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but...

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  • 1935
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    Captain Blood

    Captain Blood

    7.241 1935 HD

    Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

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    Big City

    Big City

    7.4 1937 HD

    Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob...

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  • 1935
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    Fighting Youth

    Fighting Youth

    7 1935 HD

    A radical campus group persuades student Carol Arlington to lead a protest of a college's football team. She manages to recruit Larry Davis, even...

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  • 1935
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    The Last Days of Pompeii

    The Last Days of Pompeii

    5.6 1935 HD

    In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by...

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  • 1935
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    La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

    La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

    5.818 1935 HD

    La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy...

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  • 1935
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    The Ivory-Handled Gun

    The Ivory-Handled Gun

    1 1935 HD

    Buck Ward and the Wolverine Kid, who each own one of the ivory handled guns, continue the feud started by their fathers.

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  • 1946
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    Road to Utopia

    Road to Utopia

    6.6 1946 HD

    While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her...

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  • 1932
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    Always Kickin'

    Always Kickin'

    1 1932 HD

    When Russel Gleason is thought to have made a kick by Jim Thorpe, he is reinstated on the college team in time for the big game.

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  • 1935
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    Wanderer of the Wasteland

    Wanderer of the Wasteland

    5 1935 HD

    Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands...

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  • 1951
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    Jim Thorpe – All-American

    Jim Thorpe – All-American

    6 1951 HD

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  • 1951
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    Jim Thorpe – All-American

    Jim Thorpe – All-American

    6 1951 HD

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