Jim Thorpe

Born: 22 May 1887, Prague, Indian Territory [now Oklahoma], USA

Died: 28 March 1953, Lomita, California, USA

 

Jim Thorpe was an all-round native American athlete who played Major League baseball and professional (American) football in the American Professional Football Association (later renamed the NFL). After his career in sport was over he used his fame to carve out a film career, often playing sportsmen or indians in Westerns.

 

Off His Base (1932) as Jim Thorpe