Murray Rose

Murray Rose was born on January 6 1939 With the onset of World War Two he moved as a baby with his parents from Britain to Australia and took up swimming at age five By the age of ten he was already breaking records and in 1956 won three Olympic gold medals at Melbourne also achieving success at the Rome Olympics four years later He moved to America and studied acting at the University of Californiagraduating in 1962 Several film roles came his way and he lived in the States for thirty yearslatterly working as a swimming commentator and then moving into marketing back in his native Australia where he died in 2012