The 5 time Olympic Champion for the United States in swimming in the games of 1924 in Paris and 1928 in Amsterdam and actor in mainly the legendary Tarzan films between 1932 and 1948 was born in this house June 2, 1904 in the village of Szabadfalu in then the Empire of Austria-Hungary. Today it's Freidorf just outside Timisoare in todays Romania.