{{short description|American actor and bodybuilder}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Johnny Kemper | image = Johnny Kemper.jpg |image_size = 240 | birth_name = John A. Kemper | birth_date = {{birth date|1944|07|31}} |birth_place = Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|2012|06|13|1944|07|31}} |death_place = Morristown, New Jersey, U.S. | spouse = Shirley Corke<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://obits.nj.com/us/obituaries/starledger/name/john-kemper-obituary?id=21681710&_gl=1*msg3y7*_gcl_au*MTUwOTQyMzgzMS4xNzgwMzMxMTQ3|title=John Kemper Obituary (1944-2012)|work=The Star-Ledger|date=June 17, 2012|access-date=June 1, 2026|via=Legacy.com}}</ref> | sport = Bodybuilding | country = {{USA}} |medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's bodybuilding}} {{MedalCountry | {{USA}} }} {{MedalCompetition | World Games }} {{MedalGold | 1981 Santa Clara | Heavyweight }} }}
'''John A. Kemper''' (July 31, 1944<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.musclememory.com/show.php?a=Kemper,+John|title=John Kemper|work=MuscleMemory|access-date=June 1, 2026}}</ref> – June 13, 2012) was an American actor and bodybuilder. He competed at the 1981 World Games, winning the gold medal in the men's +80 kg event.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theworldgames.org/results#!edition=7&category=474&country=0|title=Results of The World Games|work=World Games|access-date=June 1, 2026}}</ref> Aside from his bodybuilding career, he was the owner of the Diamond Gym, which he sold in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|author=Lonnie Teper |url=http://www.ironmanmagazine.com/john-kemper-dies-suddenly-at-67/ |title=John Kemper Dies Suddenly at 67 |work=Iron Man |date=June 14, 2012|accessdate=May 4, 2016}}</ref>
Kemper died at the Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, New Jersey on June 13, 2012, at the age of 67.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.weremember.com/john-kemper/4h1m/memories|title=John Kemper|work=We Remember|access-date=June 1, 2026}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== * ''Surfari'' (1967) * ''Women in Revolt'' (1971)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Warhol_in_Ten_Takes/eGr8DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0|title=Warhol in Ten Takes|page=450|editor=Needham, Gary. Davis, Glyn|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|date=July 25, 2019|ISBN=9781839021121|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0447416}}
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