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{{Infobox person
| name               = John Cawas
| birth_date         = 1910
| birth_place        = [[Jabalpur]]
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|df=y|1993|10|4|1910}}
| death_place        = [[Mumbai, India]]
| occupation         = Stuntman, actor
}}
'''John Cawas''' (1910 – 4 October 1993<ref name=indeUK>{{cite news|title=John Cawas|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-john-cawas-1512514.html| work=Independent UK | accessdate=2011-12-27|location=London|first=Kuldip|last=Singh|date=23 October 1993}}</ref>) was a stuntman and actor in Hindi movies. Cawas made his debut in the Hindi film ''[[Hunterwali]]'' (1935), which became a career-defining movie for [[Fearless Nadia]] and Wadia Movietone. Cawas himself was famous for his performance of Tarzan in various movies.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

==Early life==
Born in 1910 in [[Jabalpur]] in a [[Parsi]] family, Cawas pursued a career of professional body building and won the 1930 All-India Bodybuilding Championship.<ref name=pop />

==Film career==
The 1930s was an era of adventure movies for Hindi cinema, and Cawas got his first break as a swordsman in ''Hunterwali'' along with Nadia and [[Boman Shroff]]. This role along with similar roles in subsequent sequel remakes of this movie helped Cawas establish himself as a professional stuntman and actor.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

His portrayal of Tarzan in [[Wadia Movietone]]'s [[Toofani Tarzan]] was a career-defining role for him.<ref name=pop>{{cite book|title=Bollyworld: Popular Indian cinema through a transnational lens|year=2005|publisher=SAGE|isbn=9780761933212|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DGtNhQsLl7wC&pg=PP1}}</ref><ref name=TT>{{cite web|title=Toofani Tarzan|url=http://www.mjsimpson.co.uk/reviews/toofanitarzan.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222201305/http://www.mjsimpson.co.uk/reviews/toofanitarzan.html|archivedate=22 February 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=Vanmala>{{cite web|title=Vanmala|date=26 October 2010 |url=https://oldmalayalam.blogspot.com/2010/10/vanamala-1951.html}}</ref>

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