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name: "David Albritton"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-albritton"
fi1m_id: "david-albritton"
imdb_id: "nm0017049"
tmdb_id: 10274
roles: []
born: "13 April 1913"
died: "14 May 1994"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T02:47:05.042007+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# David Albritton

## Identity

David Albritton

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-albritton
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-albritton
- **IMDb ID:** nm0017049
- **TMDB ID:** 10274
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0017049/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10274

Actor. Born 13 April 1913 in Danville, Alabama, USA. Died 14 May 1994.

## Details

- **Born:** 13 April 1913, Danville, Alabama, USA
- **Died:** 14 May 1994
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0017049/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10274

## Biography

David Albritton (1913–1994) was an American track and field athlete who appeared uncredited as Self – High Jump, USA in Leni Riefenstahl’s documentary *Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations* (1938). The footage captured his participation in the high jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he won the silver medal.

Born in Danville, Alabama, Albritton competed for Ohio State University. He set a world record in the high jump at the 1936 US Olympic Trials alongside Cornelius Johnson and later served six terms in the Ohio House of Representatives.

*Sources: imdb.com, olympedia.org, case.edu.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations* (1938), Fi1m 75, as Self - High Jump, USA (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/olympia-part-one-festival-of-the-nations.md)

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