Duke Kahanamoku

Duke Kahanamoku was born on Aug 24, 1890 in USA]. Duke Kahanamoku's big-screen debut came with Adventure directed by Victor Fleming in 1925, strarring Noah Noa. Duke Kahanamoku is known for Mister Roberts directed by John Ford, Henry Fonda stars as Lieutenant Roberts and James Cagney as The Captain. The upcoming new movie Duke Kahanamoku plays is Mister Roberts which will be released on Jul 30, 1955.

Duke Kahanamoku was one of the great Olympic heroes of all time. Born in Hawaii, Duke grew up swimming and entered the 1912 Stockholm Olympics for the United States (Hawaii was not yet a state, but a U.S. possession)and became an international star by winning the Men's 100-Meter Freestyle, something he repeated eight years later at the 1920 Antwerp games (there was no 1916 Olympics as there was World War I) and he won the silver medal while Johnny Weissmuller won the gold (Duke's brother Sam won the bronze) at the 1924 Paris Olympics. All told, Duke won three gold and two silver medals in four Olympic games. He later had a Hollywood career in which he usually played a native chief or a Hawaiian king.