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Archie Hahn

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Also known as Charles Archibald Hahn

German-American athlete

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • Misery

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1941-11-01

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,238
Total plays
5,289

Tags

Soundtrackdoo wop

Archie Hahn is an American actor and singer, best known for his role in Brian De Palma's 1974 film, Phantom of the Paradise. In the film, he portrays one of the three nameless members of The Juicy Fruits, later repackaged into The Beach Bums and The Undead. He performs lead vocals on the film's opening number, the '50s doo wop throwback "Goodbye, Eddie, Goodbye". It was Hahn's idea to read the song's spoken word parts in a Puerto Rican accent. He would later lend his voice to the soundtrack for

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Key facts

1904
Ironwood HS (MI)
1910
Monmouth (IL)
1911
Whitman
1928
Princeton
Born
( 1880-09-14 ) September 14, 1880, Dodgeville, Wisconsin , U.S.
Died
January 21, 1955 (1955-01-21) (aged 74), Charlottesville, Virginia , U.S.
1901 1904
Michigan
1907 1908
Pacific (OR)
1911 1914
Whitman
1915 1919
Brown (backfield)
1920 1922
Michigan (trainer)
1910 1911
Monmouth (IL)
1904 1905
Ironwood HS (MI)
1911 1915
Whitman
1915 1920
Brown
1920 1923
Michigan (assistant)
1929 1950
Virginia
1907 1909
Pacific (OR)

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Encyclopedic overview

Charles Archibald Hahn (September 14, 1880 – January 21, 1955) was an American track athlete and is widely regarded as one of the best sprinters of the early 20th century. He is the first athlete to win both the 100 m and 200 m race at the same Olympic Games.

Biography

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