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Entertainment |
Tarzan |
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Tarzan is best known, to modern audiences at least, through films. But he did first appear in literature; so he's included here in the Entertainment category (because he's not exclusive to either film or literature).
Tarzan's real name | John Clayton | |
Title | Lord Greystoke |
The first Tarzan (1918, two silent films – Tarzan of the Apes and The Romance of Tarzan – both based on Tarzan of the Apes, the original Tarzan novel) | Elmo Lincoln |
Four other actors who played Tarzan in silent films (1920–1929): | Gene Pollar | |
P. Dempsey Tabler | ||
(Son–in–law of Edgar Rice Burroughs) | James Pierce | |
Frank Merrill |
Also played Tarzan in films competing with the Weissmüller 'franchise' | 1935, 1938 | Herman Brix | |
1938 | Glenn Morris | ||
1959 | Denny Miller |
Haydn Thompson 2017