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He was inducted into the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2005. He attended Michigan State University and then went on to coach wrestling, which led to a performance career. Known as The Animal, his professional career spanned from 1967 to 1988, with occasional guest appearances after his retirement. The Animal Machine, George Steele, The Student

Michigan State University, Central Michigan University Steele also released a book in 2013 called, Animal. Birth nameįebruary 16, 2017, Cocoa Beach, Florida, U.S. Steele also had a brief acting career, which started in 1994, as he made his professional acting debut as Swedish wrestler-turned-actor Tor Johnson in Tim Burton's Ed Wood. Steele portrayed Swedish wrestler and actor Tor Johnson in Tim Burton's film Ed Wood. His career lasted from 1967 until 1988, though he made occasional wrestling appearances into the 1990s and 2000s. He was played, quite appropriately, by wrestler George 'the Animal' Steele in Tim Burton's affectionate biopic, "Ed Wood" (1994).William James Myers, better known by his ring name George "The Animal" Steele, was an American professional wrestler, school teacher, author, and actor.

The teen comedy "Head" (1968) was one of Johnson's last appearances. He was accorded one of his largest roles-in one of his worst films, "The Beast of Yucca Flats" (1961)-as a Russian atomic scientist who walks right into an atom bomb blast and assumes the film's title role. In 1995, Steele received the ultimate honor when he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Doink the Clown. He did appear in several non-horror films in bit parts ("Carousel" 1956 and "Lady in the Iron Mask" 1952, as the mad executioner who keeps Patricia Medina locked up), but jobs pretty much dried up for Johnson in the 60s. Admittedly he wasn't called on to do much his physical presence and abilities to stare uncomprehendingly and lumber about menacingly were enough. Johnson was rarely ever given any dialogue and never really learned to act. His first film for Wood was the execrable but, unintentionally, hilarious "Bride of the Monster" (1956), in which he originated the role of the mute, scarred Lobo, a role he reprised in Wood's "Night of the Ghouls" (1959) and in the non-Wood directed "The Unearthly" (1957). After years in the ring, Johnson played bits in the Ole Olsen and Chick Johnson comedy "Ghost Catchers" (1944) and the low-budget film noir "Behind Locked Doors" (1948). Hulking, bald-pated Swedish wrestler who began making film appearances in the 1940s and became a minor cult figure playing mute, mindless killers in a number of schlock horror films, most notably in the films of Edward D.