hidden gold ( 1932 film )
cowboy star, boxing star inset on a poster that advertises the movie' hidden gold,' 1932 .
cowboy star, boxing star inset on a poster that advertises the movie' hidden gold,' ...
a battle for the gold supposedly hidden in the mine ensues, but the rightful owners and bandits both find another source of competition: the mine is haunted by a phantom .
hoppy and lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. the robbers are taking gold from colby' s mine and hoppy suspects it may be ex - outlaw colby himself. when speedy strikes gold, hoppy borrows it and announces a gold shipment hoping to catch the gang and their leader .
like frank merrill, weissmuller had an athletic background that helped him prepare to play the brawny character. the five - time olympic gold - medalist swimmer played tarzan in a whopping 12 films, beginning with the 1932 smash hit tarzan the ape man .
but lambert' s most successful international film was as connor macleod, in the 1986 film highlander, having appeared in all three sequels .
the first notable reference is probably the most obvious and on the nose: we are given a new origin for the titular mummy of the film in a sequence that harkens back all the way to 1932. like that original film, the sorceress here was mummified alive with her viscera largely intact. this was punishment for a ritual intended to bring about each' s awaited lover from the underworld. in the 1932 film’s case (and the previous 1999 remake), it was due to undead imhotep wishing to resurrect his deceased love from an illicit romance .
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a second film, romance of tarzan, was released in 1918 and also starred lincoln .
hoppy and lucky confront a gang of outlaws which has been ravaging stagecoaches and gold mines. the final gunfight is at ed colby' s mine .
this year’s festival offers familiar classic - era directors like ernst lubitsch, king vidor, lewis milestone and vittorio de sica, but sometimes showcasing their less - familiar films — neorealist de sica’s return to his commedia dell’arte roots, the gold of naples, for example. academy film archive preservationist heather linville will present several screenings, including the raunchy 1932 comedy cock of the air, produced by howard hughes (already rush ticket only) .
scott got his big break as tarzan after being spotted by a talent agent while working as a hotel lifeguard in las vegas. he held the role in tarzan’s hidden jungle (1955) and five other tarzan films .
haunted gold was directed by mack v. wright and is a remake of a ken maynard film. with warner bros. , john wayne starred in remakes of six ken maynard films, all of which re - used long shots from the original silents .
another hot restoration ticket, on pace to sell out advance tickets, will be the visually dazzling early technicolor musical revue, king of jazz (1932). this will be rush - line worthy .
buster crabbe was an olympic medalist, swimming in the 1928 and 1932 games. his athletic skills and powerful body made him a logical choice to replace johnny weismuller as tarzan, or so the studios thought .
griffen and his two men have been caught after robbing a bank but the money has not been recovered. so the chief sends his friend tom to prison to become their friend and hopes he can learn where the loot is hidden .
however, pierce and his wife joan were the voices of tarzan and jane on national radio between 1932 - 34. they remained married until joan' s death in 1973 and james pierce passed away in 1983 .
weissmuller was a swimmer in the 1920s and considered one of the best in the world, winning five olympic gold medals and one bronze for the united states during his athletic career .
the statuesque actor starred in the 1949 film tarzan’s magic fountain and four other subsequent films about the jungle dweller .
brix, who later changed his name to bruce bennett, was actually cast before weissmuller to play tarzan in 1932, but broke his shoulder before filming began. the actor finally got his chance to don the loincloth for the new adventures of tarzan in 1935. released by burroughs - tarzan enterprises, inc. , the film was more faithful to the book than previous adaptations .
in 2016, he will star as tarzan / john clayton iii, lord greystoke in the feature film the legend of tarzan .
some people find history boring, but at the wisconsin film festival, history hits like a switchblade knife, to paraphrase the poster for larry peerce’s the incident. that 1967 film is one of many worth seeking out in the festival’s restorations and rediscoveries series .
he starred in three tarzan films in the 1960s: tarzan and the valley of gold (1966), tarzan and the great river (1967), and tarzan and the jungle boy (1968) .
haunted gold isn’t a great film, but it does have a few small things going for it. i’d recommend it only to those interested in the small “horror western” subgenre or those interested in seeing some of john wayne’s earlier work (though even then, i can’t recommend it very highly due to the reliance on racial stereotypes for “comedy”) .
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there are a few positives to haunted gold, including a fast pace. there are a couple of nicely - staged action scenes. the blend of silly ghost story and old - fashioned dispute over riches works well, too. both sides of the plot are thin, but since the film runs at just under an hour, the viewer’s attention is held .
jane (maureen o' sullivan) and tarzan (johnny weissmuller) in a scene from the 1941 film tarzan' s secret treasure .
he worked in a few french films and became known internationally thanks to his role in the feature film greystoke: the legend of tarzan, lord of the apes (1984). this film remained very true to burrough' s idea of tarzan and received good critical praise .
henry was a linebacker for the steelers and the rams before starring in three tarzan movies throughout the 1960s, including tarzan and the valley of gold. he was later seen in smokey and the bandit, the longest yard and soylent green .
as a track and field athlete, glenn morris set a new record and won a gold medal in the decathlon in the 1936 olympics. this success led to a lot of media attention and morris did a short stint as an nbc radio commentator .
note: this article was updated to reflect that the t. n. t. show is not screening at this year' s wisconsin film festival .
but weissmuller' s acting career really didn' t start until 1932, when he signed a contract to play the lead in tarzan the ape man. the film was a huge success and weissmuller was on his way to stardom. he played tarzan in 12 films before giving up his loincloth, only to assume the role of jungle jim in a series of films based on the comic strip character jim bradly. he made 13 jungle jim movies before retiring from the movie business .
( image via wikimedia commons) also returning to the town are janet carter (sheila terry), whose father would have left her a share in the mine if he hadn’t lost it himself, and joe ryan (harry woods), a bandit accompanied by a gold - hunting gang .
though i’m not a huge fan of john wayne, i became excited to watch haunted gold as the opening credits rolled. they feature animated owls flying toward the viewer. a menacing figure wearing a black robe makes up the background for the credits. a fun and spooky tone is set .
ronald adair, in the 1921 broadway play. does anyone know if this is the same actor who starred in the 1915 british film, the girl who took the wrong turning ?
the handsome actor only played tarzan once. he starred opposite bo derek in the 1981 film tarzan, the ape man, which was directed by his costar’s then - husband john derek .
scott replaced lex barker as the swinging ape man and made six tarzan films, beginning with tarzan' s hidden jungle (1955). his later tarzan films were tarzan and the lost safari (1957), tarzan and the trappers
( 1958), tarzan' s fight for life (1958), tarzan' s greatest adventure (1959), and tarzan the magnificent (1960). gordon was considered by many to be the best tarzan .
brix got another chance to play tarzan. in 1935 he starred in the new adventures of tarzan, produced by a newly formed burroughs - tarzan, inc. since burroughs had a hand in making this film, brix' s tarzan resembled the one of the books. he was educated, cultured, and well mannered. in 1938 a second film, tarzan and the green goddess, was released .
he would discover that fame made him uncomfortable and didn' t work in another film for the next seven years. he finally returned to acting after he served for 18 months in the swedish military .
handsome lex barker was disowned by his family when he chose to become an actor. on his own, he supported himself by working in the steel industry until 1945, when he landed a small part in the film doll face. a string of minor film roles followed, but his big break came in 1949 when he was cast as tarzan in tarzan' s magic fountain. barker made five more tarzan films before leaving the role .
he went to new york city and spent six months there taking a theater course at marymount manhattan college. he then returned to sweden ready to get back into acting and started to audition for roles in film and television .
in that book, the erudite jekyll is replaced by mr. hyde, who is often described as “ape - like” and “troglodytic. ” it is an element that early film versions and many stage plays influenced by victorian anxieties also embraced .
in this film, however, russell crowe’s helpful narrating brogue confirms it is rather an attempt to bring the egyptian god of war and chaos to life by placing set into a human body that sofia boutella’s ahmanet has selected to be a vessel .
he was the first blond tarzan, appearing in the film tarzan, the ape man. it was a cheap movie that included a lot of footage from previously filmed tarzan movies. it was miller' s only venture as the ape man .
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clint walker (the same handsome actor who gained fame as cheyene bodie in the tv western cheyenne) played a tiny, uncredited role in a bowery boys film, jungle gents (1954). walker was 27 years old and had yet to begin work on cheyenne .
when producers at numa pictures wanted to make another tarzan film, they approached elmo lincoln to reprise his role, but he refused. at 28, new york city firefighter joseph c. pohler stood 6' 2
and weighed 215 pounds. he was the perfect choice .
gordon griffith played the role of of korak as a child and kamuela c. searle as an adult. the role was tabler' s first acting role and he did act in one more film, spawn of the desert in 1923. he went on to become successful in advertising .
in 1929, merrill was tarzan in tarzan the tiger. while this film was mostly silent, there were a few parts that had sound and unfortunately merrill' s voice didn' t make the cut for
talkies .
his career was over after just two outings on the big screen .
since the hunt for the next commercial crossover has been co - opted by studios and distributors, festival circuit programmers have a chance to directly affect film culture by looking into the past. the thrill of the hunt for archival films provides as many highs and lows as seeking the next new thing .
in the 1955 tv series sheena: queen of the jungle, irish mccalla played the orphan girl who grew up in the jungle and learned to survive. in 1984, tanya roberts played sheena in a big screen film and gena lee nolin was sheena in the syndicated series, sheena, made in 2000 .
the second half of the film dishes out an almost unbearably physical demonstration of the “first they came for [ insert group ], and i said nothing” arguments reprised in recent months. the delinquents first assault a gay man, and no one responds. but everyone in the subway car learns the consequences of not responding .
he never appeared on - screen, but goldwyn gets credit for voicing tarzan in the 1999 animated disney film. the feature was well - received by critics, enjoyed a successful run at the box office and was the first tarzan movie to win an academy award when it nabbed best original song for “you’ll be in my heart. ”
no sooner did my excitement rise than it was shot down again by some good ol’ fashioned hollywood racism. blue washington appears as clarence, an easily - spooked and superstitous sidekick to john wayne’s character. far too much screen time, early on and throughout the rest of the film, is spent squeezing misguided “humor” from this stereotypical character .
it wasn' t long until hollywood took notice of this popular literary character and decided that he should become a movie character too. the 1918 silent film tarzan of the apes starred elmo lincoln in the title role. it was a hit and hollywood had a new hero, one that continues to enthrall movie - goers to this day .
johnny sheffield starred as
boy
in the 1939 film tarzan finds a son. he was never called
tarzan
or
tarzan, jr. ,
only
boy .
producers were under pressure from morality groups, who took exception to the fact that tarzan and jane were never married, so having their own child or children was a no - no .
lincoln was the very first actor to take on the feral character, who was created by edgar rice burroughs and first appeared in the writer’s 1912 publication tarzan of the apes. the jungle man made his screen debut in the 1918 silent film of the same name. lincoln reprised the role for the romance of tarzan (1918) and the adventures of tarzan (1921) .
samuel cooper searle was born in hawaii in 1890. around 1915 he met director cecil b. demille on the beach at waikiki. demille was so taken with searle that he encouraged him to pursue a career in film. it has been said that searle acted in small parts in a few early demille films, though he is not credited for any acting work during this time .
of the central cast, sheila terry is the stand - out, though none of the acting is great. most of the cast is out - performed by wayne’s horse, duke. (duke received top billing alongside wayne. i thought this was hilarious when i started the film and saw the horse credited so prominently, but by the 45 - minute mark, i understood the decision. )
griffith' s career made the transition from silent films to talkies, but he got smaller roles. his last role was in the 1936 film outlaws of the range. after that, griffith moved into other areas of the movie industry and got his first job as assistant director at 23. he continued to work as an assistant director until 1940, and had over 20 films to his credit .
in 1938, morris was chosen to play tarzan. he appeared in only one film, tarzan' s revenge. the movie (and his acting) were panned and he never tried to expand on his acting career. morris left hollywood to play football for the detroit lions, but after just four games an injury stopped that career short. morris would eventually give up the sporting life altogether .
big, barrel - chested elmo lincoln was the first actor to bring tarzan to the big screen, in the 1918 silent film, tarzan of the apes. edgar rice burroughs wasn' t impressed with lincoln and didn' t want him to play the role. rice preferred actor stellen windrow, who had given up acting at the outbreak of world war i. this left the role available for lincoln .
in 1929, brix came to hollywood where douglas fairbanks, jr. arranged for a screen test at paramount studios. brix was cast in a film called touchdown but he injured his shoulder during filming. this was a bad break for brix, because mgm had decided they wanted him to play tarzan in a new movie. his injury prevented him from taking the role, which went to johnny weismuller and made him a star .
james pierce was a football player at indiana university. after graduating in 1921, he moved to arizona where he coached football and worked as an actor on the side. pierce moved to california and in 1924 he got his first movie role, in the film leatherstocking. he continued to coach football, at glendale high school, and some of the student players on his team would eventually take up acting, men like john wayne and robert livingston .
a pretty pedestrian entry into this long running series. someone is hijacking the gold from a mine, can it be an ex - outlaw, now supposedly gone straight or could it be his business partner and the shady foreman that are behind it all? if you need me to answer that, you haven' t watched many westerns! this plot was hackneyed and old well before this was filmed. still, the cast do their best with the material and bill boyd always puts his heart into the role that he made forever his own. there' s some nice shots of the posse riding to the rescue and full use is made of the beautiful scenery of the unspoilt american western range. and there' s enough gunfights and action to keep things moving along to the somewhat predictable finale .
crabbe' s first and only turn as tarzan came in 1933 when he starred in tarzan the fearless. the project was meant to be a 12 - chapter movie serial, but it was released instead as a feature film using just the first four parts of the serial. this was crabbe' s only outing as tarzan, but he worked on several more movies that had a
jungle
theme: king of the jungle (1933), jungle man (1941), and the 1952 serial king of the congo .
in 1919 he appeared, uncredited, in demille' s male and female. in 1920, searle took the role of a young tarzan in the 15 - part movie serial the son of tarzan. there is a myth that searle died during the filming when an elephant slammed him to the ground. though he was injured badly, and a double had to complete some remaining shots, searle survived and went on to complete fool' s paradise in 1921. after that he retired from the film industry and devoted his time to painting and sculpting .
less a reference to a specific film, it is more a nod to the victorian obsessions that likely influenced robert louis stevenson’s writing of the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde. still rocked by charles darwin’s theory of evolution by 1886, europe became obsessed with “degeneration. ” besides feeding into bigoted and hateful stereotypes, there was a real primal concern of turning into a more beastly, uncivilized self. it’s seen in plenty of fiction from that era, including dracula, h. g. wells’ the time machine and the island of doctor moreau, and, yes, stevenson’s story .
pierce' s career and life took a major turn when he was invited to a party given by edgar rice burroughs. at the party he met burroughs' daughter joan. the couple fell in love and married in 1928. also, edgar burroughs thought pierce was the perfect shape and size to play tarzan. right there at the party he offered pierce the lead role in tarzan and the golden lion. pierce earned $ 75 a week while working on the film, which was released in 1927. while it was popular with audiences, the movie was panned by critics. it was pierce' s first and last role as the famed ape man .
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jermaine fowler and omari hardwick of sorry to bother you take us back in time to the worst jobs of their careers .
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tony - tom' s horse (as tony jr. the miracle horse )
, stumbled during a chase scene and landed on top of mix. the star was badly injured. the horse suffered a permanent injury and was replaced in future films by
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belle langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. she is also a front for the outlaws, who are led by steve fraser. hoppy gets elected sheriff and cleans up the town with help from the bar 20 boys .
when hoppy' s falsely accused young friend is killed while supposedly trying to escape from jail, an embittered hoppy is blamed and drummed out of the texas rangers .
joe weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. the idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. hoppy and the good guys won' t let this happen .
while oil drilling, hoppy and california discover an underground well - a potential threat to jebb hardin' s monopoly on water in the region .
hoppy and new sidekick california carlson head to california to help out lucky jenkins .
hoppy, lucky and california search for a mine owned by trudy pendleton after it was taken from her by the swindling gambler ace gibson. they find the mine and hoppy fights gibson over it .
a former bar 20 cowhand is now a cattle rancher and having trouble with rustlers. hoppy and the bar 20 gang ride in and surround the the bad guys. june winters joins the posse and serves as the romantic partner for posse co - leader lucky .
hoppy, johnny and windy are fighting a malicious gang trying to stop a cattle drive from reaching a drought - stricken north .
to obtain water rights, bad guy mark foster murders the heir to a cattle ranch and puts an imposter in his place .
during the spanish - american war, colonel teddy roosevelt' s rough riders are short of horses, and hopalong cassidy and his bar - 20 friends are detailed to round up a bunch of wild horses, but... see full summary »
hoppy clears lucky on a charge of bank robbery and foils the plot of a crooked lawyer to rustle a herd of pedigree cattle and take over the valley .
for nationally syndicated television presentation beginning in 1948 and continuing thereafter for many years, as a result of their phenomenal success. each feature was re - edited to 54 minutes so as to comfortably fit into a 60 minute time slot, with six minutes for commercials. it was not until 50 years later that, with the cooperation of mrs. boyd. i. e .
, that they were finally restored to their original length with their original opening and closing credits intact .
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a cowboy and his girl fight bandits and a ghost over an abandoned mine .
not a bad early wayne western that was marred by the stereotyped racism that poor blue washington was forced to perform .
john mason (john wayne) has saddled up his horse and ridden to an abandoned mining town, after receiving an anonymous letter requesting his presence. john was left a half - share in the mine by his father .
( image via dukewayne. com) also on the bright side, there are a few effective performances from character actors in small roles. erville alderson is great as tom benedict, who is feuding with the bandits, and martha mattox makes a small - but - delightful appearance as the dagger - eyed mrs. herman .
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with the mummy out in theaters now, we are collecting every classic horror movie (and a few not - so - classics) it nods to .
it is finally here. after years of rumination, universal pictures has at last taken an official stab at what they are now calling the dark universe: a serious attempt to make a shared universe out of their iconic movie monsters for the first time in about 70 years! (yes we’re also choosing to ignore 2004’s van helsing like all decent human beings. )
not since abbot and costello jumped out of a boat with the invisible man have we seen a genuine attempt to spin multiple films out of some of the most beloved creatures of movie features .
and whether you or not enjoyed tom cruise as the mummy ’s face—quite literally by the end—the pact has truly been made and we’re moving on to a new world of gods and monsters! and yes, we’ll get to that quote too. in the meantime, we’re breaking down all the references, homages, and “borrowing” this mummy did in this living and breathing document. as we become aware of more winks and nods, or commenters helpfully point out things we missed, we’ll gladly update this article accordingly. so away we go !
unsurprisingly, this comes up again later. also worth noting is the fact that boutella’s mummy is called ahmanet. this could be a shortened version of ankh - es - en - amon, as well as a play on the egyptian goddess named amunet .
the mummy ’s gravesite was apparently so dangerous that ancient egyptians moved it far out of the reach of either the upper or lower kingdoms. they also placed in the cradle of civilization… which is in modern day iraq in 2017. the movie has some fun with bullets hitting ancient sumerian statues. this is treated as a gag, but it’s a pretty knowing acknowledgement of the very real world horror of terrorist organizations like isis targeting ancient archeological sites, such as palmyra in syria .
speaking of this early sequence where tom cruise’s nick and jake johnson’s chris accidentally unearth ahmanet’s ancient burial site, the scene likewise calls to mind another iconic landmark from movie history: the exorcist. director alex kurtzman told den of geek in an interview that that 1973 movie’s creepy and deliberately placed opening was a major influence. during this sequence, max von sydow’s father merrin oversees an archeological dig in northern iraq that accidentally unearths a demonic statue, which he takes as a foreboding omen that he will face satanic evil again. while it is the size of a trinket, he sees a vision of a giant pagan statue of demonic quality, not unlike the stony egyptian face that tom cruise stumbles upon here .
also worth noting, the far less revered prequel exorcist: the beginning features an archeological dig in africa whereupon they find a church built underground with statues indicating it was meant to keep something evil trapped below our world. a prison as much as a temple .
the now famous plane scene from the mummy remake where the sorceress uses her evil powers to crash the aircraft and kill everyone onboard (cruise doesn’t technically survive) feels like it was borrowed from nearly every dracula story ever told, including universal’s 1931 original take. in the traditional telling of the vampire count, he steers a russian schooner called the demeter off - course, taking him to whitby harbor. none of the crew complains though as he drains them all dry of blood. at least the ones who don’t jump overboard that is…
jake johnson’s ghoulish ghost haunting his bff from beyond the grave while in a state of rot is so obviously out of an american werewolf in london that even jake johnson admitted that he instantly thought of it when he saw the character’s breakdown. like griffin dunne in that classic, johnson stalks his bestie who took him on a trip that got him killed, and he reminds his living pal that he is cursed. he also beckons the living to the dead, with dunne urging his compatriot to kill himself to end his suffering; johnson merely expects cruise to give in and let ahmanet have her way with him, then he’ll be free. there’s even a bathroom mirror scene .
a slightly subtler nod to this classic might be that annabelle wallis’ character is named jenny, and the love interest in an american werewolf is played by jenny agutter. also, both dunne and johnson comment on their respective jennys with yearning .
i’m likewise not convinced that showing a double decker london bus in a car crash during the third act was a coincidence either .
another ‘80s classic, at least of the cult variety, cropping up in the mummy is lifeforce. in that movie, mathilda may has the unenviable task of playing “space girl, ” a french succubus babe from the stars who walks around the whole movie in the nude, locking lips with any man who crosses her path. as she does this, they turn into hideous dehydrated corpses who then later rise up as zombies to attack london. she meanwhile goes on her merry way, constantly and psychically bedding the movie’s male protagonist who doth protest too much .
this is pretty much how ahmanet and nick morton’s relationship plays out as she (much more slowly) regains her youth via mummy mushiness .
nick envisioning ahmanet to be a giant pile of rats who attacks him on a london street is a definite riff on dracula. in the book, and quite memorably in universal’s 1931 iteration, renfield drones on about how his master came to him with an army of rats as some kind of supernatural hush money (renfield is a hungry boy). francis ford coppola also visualized this to a similar way as the mummy in 1992’s misleadingly titled bram stoker’s dracula. except you know, he used actual rats instead of cgi .
the prodigium is obviously kind of like the avengers’ hellicarrier or bruce wayne’s batcave: a place where all the cool easter eggs can be piled up. i didn’t see too many on my solitary viewing, but i obviously caught the close - up of a vampire skull, complete with some really nasty fangs that embrace nosferatu being quite a bit more bestial in this universe .
another easter egg that i missed, but commenter megalon' s accountant and twitter user bill desmarais were so kind to point out to me, occurs in the prodigium. after seeing a vampire skull, tom cruise walks past the hand and forearm of the creature from the black lagoon. or at least a member of the creature' s species. let' s just say that something fishy is going on there .
another one we missed on our viewing of the movie, but inverse has been so good to call out, is that while at the prodigum, annabelle wallis' jenny at one point knocks out one of henry jekyll' s goons with a book... the book of the dead from 1999' s the mummy to be exact. we missed it, but inverse says pretty confidently that it has the same seven - pointed star that was the lock on the book of the dead in that brendan fraser classic .
and of course the prodigium is home to russell crowe’s massive (and massively enjoyable) scenery - chewing. crowe plays dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, who really need no introduction. but in a nice touch, his office is decorated with various skulls that trace human evolution .
henry jekyll also says one awesome thing: “welcome to a new world of gods and monsters. ” as if you didn’t know that came from bride of frankenstein, one of the greatest movies of all - time ?
and that final shot of tom cruise being chased by a giant sandstorm can be nothing other than an homage (or appropriation) of the most iconic effect from 1999’s the mummy. in that millennial - beloved brendan fraser movie, the mummy is played by arnold vosloo, who can control the elements in a way boris karloff’s mummy only dreamed about. and now with the powers of set, so too can tom cruise’s mummy superhero .
edgar rice burroughs first introduced the world to tarzan in a 1912 issue of the all story magazine .
this guide to the actors who have played tarzan is as complete as i could put together. if you know of any omissions, let me know in the comments section .
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in 1921 lincoln starred again as the famous ape man, in the 15 - part movie serial the adventures of tarzan .
griffith' s got his first acting role when he was seven, playing a regular part in the four little billy short movies in 1914 and 1915 .
mack sennett of keystone studios cast griffith in several of his slapstick comedy movies and griffith played opposite charlie chaplin, playing a paperboy in tillie' s punctured romance. milton berle often took credit for playing this role, but it was griffith' s work. in 1918 he played the boy tarzan in the silent tarzan of the apes .
griffith produced five films between 1937 and 1956 and worked as an associate producer under robert e. sherwood. in 1941 he worked as a director and associate producer with gregory ratoff productions. that same year he was named production manager at columbia studios but he eventually moved on to rko to work as an associate producer .
born in 1876, perce dempsey tabler had a varied career: opera singer, businessman, founding member of paramount pictures, athlete, and wearer of tarzan' s loincloth .
beginning in the summer of 1920, tabler starred in a 15 - chapter movie serial, the son of tarzan, based on a edgar rice burroughs story of the same title. the series tells the story of korak, son of tarzan and jane, who is kidnapped and taken to africa .
during world war i, searle enlisted in the u. s. army and was wounded in france. when he was discharged, he changed his first name to kamuela, the hawaiian spelling of samuel .
pohler changed his name to gene pollar (some sources show his name spelled as
polar
) and earned $ 100 a week. the revenge of tarzan turned out to be a big hit and he was offered a contract with universal. numa wouldn' t release him from his contract, so pollar went back to being joseph pohler and fighting fires in new york .
he eventually retired to florida, where he died in 1971 at the age of 79 .
frank merrill held many jobs during his lifetime: gymnast, police officer, stuntman, and actor .
merrill was elmo lincoln' s stunt double in the 1921 movie serial, the adventures of tarzan. in 1928 he wore the loincloth again in tarzan the mighty, replacing actor / stuntman joe bonomo .
this suited merrill fine. he found a new career he liked better—working with children. he got a job at the los angeles parks commission as a recreation director and volunteer gymnastics instructor. merrill passed away in 1955 at the age of 62 .
his success as an athlete made him somewhat famous and in 1929 he signed a contract to be a model for bvd, a men' s underwear company. this brought him even greater attention and that same year he made his first movie appearance, in glorifying the american girl as an adonis wearing just a fig leaf .
miles o' keefe' s tarzan, opposite bo derek' s jane, is my favorite .
crabbe' s his real claim to fame, however, was as flash gordon in 1936. he died in 1983 and is buried in green acres memorial park in scottsdale, arizona .
highly sought after biography of herman brix who would go on to have a successful acting career as bruce bennett .
another olympic medalist to play tarzan, herman brix won a silver medal for the shot put track and field event in the 1928 games .
brix changed his name to bruce bennett when he joined columbia studios. he was considered a fairly competent actor and played in sahara, mildred pierce, the treasure of the sierra madre, and other films .
he was in the navy during world war ii, commanding an amphibious - assault landing craft, when the stress took its toll and he was admitted for treatment for psychological trauma, spending several months in a navy hospital .
there are those who call morris one of the greatest athletes ever. he died of heart failure in california in 1974 .
barker had his great success post - tarzan in the foreign cinema. he starred in westerns, war dramas, and comedies. barker married five times and two of those marriages were to famous actresses: arlene dahl (1951 - 52) and lana turner (1953 - 57) .
in 1973, just three days before his 54th birthday, barker suffered a heart attack while out on a walk and died. he was cremated and his ashes taken to spain by his ex - wife carmen cervera .
in 1953, while working as a lifeguard in las vegas, young gordon scott was spotted by a hollywood agent who believed scott had the right physique to play tarzan. he met with producer sy weintraub and signed a seven year contract .
when scott left the tarzan role, he moved to italy where he became a popular action star making
sword and sorcerer
films. he died in baltimore in 2007 of complications from heart surgery .
denny miller was playing basketball at ucla when he was discovered by a hollywood agent and signed to a contract with mgm studios in 1959 .
after tarzan, miller made numerous guest appearances, usually playing a villain or jerk. he appeared as the gorton fisherman on commercials for gorton' s fish sticks .
in 1948, jock mahoney auditioned to replace johnny weissmuller as tarzan, but the role went to lex barker .
fourteen years later, producer sy weintraub decided that he wanted a new look for the ape man and 44 - year - old jock mahoney had it. he took over the role of tarzan in 1962, making just two films: tarzan goes to india (1962) and tarzan' s three challenges (1963). mahoney' s health suffered from working on the films and he was released from his contract. meanwhile, producer weintraub decided it was time to try making a tarzan tv series .
mike henry was a line backer for the pittsburgh steelers (1958 - 61) and the los angeles rams (1962 - 64) before turning his attention to acting .
working conditions were so horrible that henry sued producer sy weintraub, claiming that his health and welfare were at risk. he was offered the role of tarzan for the tv series, but turned it down .
another role you might remember mike from, was as junior in the burt reynolds comedy smokey and the bandit .
at 6' 4
tall, with a nice build, ron ely was the 15th tarzan. in 1966, ely starred in the first tarzan television series. his tarzan was well - educated and returned to the jungle when he got tired of living in civilization .
the series ran for two years, airing a total of 57 episodes. unfortunately, ely sustained a variety of injuries while making the series. he was bitten by a
tame
lion. he broke his shoulder, sprained both wrists, and fractured a number of ribs. the list goes on. part of the problem was that ely insisted on doing his own stunts but had no stuntman training .
four movies, made mostly from material filmed for several two - part episodes, came out in the late 1960s and early 1970s. tarzan' s jungle rebellion (1967), tarzan and the four o' clock war (1968), tarzan' s deadly silence (1970), and tarzan and the perils of charity jones (1971) .
look for some great guest stars in the first season: diana ross, former tarzan jock mahoney, nichelle nichols, sally kellerman, and more .
miles o' keefe studied political science and psychology in college. after graduating, he took a job as a prison counselor in the tennessee penal system and worked there for several years before trying acting .
his big break came in 1981 when he played tarzan opposite bo derek, as jane, in tarzan the ape man. the movie was written, directed, and produced by bo and john derek. it was widely panned by critics, but while it' s not the best tarzan movie out there, it' s not the worst. bo derek admitted that
miles had the most beautiful body i have ever seen .
that' s something, coming from the woman known to millions as the
perfect 10 .
o' keefe went to europe and made
sword and sorcerer
movies, such as ator, the fighting eagle, and iron warrior .
christopher lambert born in new york, but raised in geneva, switzerland and paris, france .
joe lara had two different outings as tarzan. in 1989, he starred in the cbs television movie, tarzan in manhattan. the plot followed tarzan' s journey to new york. lara played the ape man on his quest to find the person responsible for the his mother' s death and to rescue cheeta, who had been captured by hunters. cheeta is being held captive by the brightmore foundation, which plans to conduct experiments that will allow thoughts to be transferred from one animal to another .
then in 1996, lara starred for one season in tarzan: the epic adventures. this series focused on tarzan' s younger years, after his first exposure to civilization. there were 22 episodes of this series .
in 2002, lara retired from acting to pursue a career in country music .
in 1985 wolf larson moved from canada to los angeles where he was discovered by an agent who told him to take acting classes to hone his talent. larson followed the agent' s advice, but also started his own video production company, future world productions .
in 1991 larson was cast to star in the tv series tarzan. the series ran until 1994, airing 75 episodes. after tarzan, larson made guest appearances on simon and simon, dynasty, and the evening soap opera santa barbara .
after that, van dien played tarzan in tarzan and the lost city (1998). the movie was a flop at the box office. it' s a shame, because van dien is certainly nice to look at, but tarzan and the lost city was the last time he played tarzan. i have never seen the movie, so i have no clue how well he did, but he certainly looked the part. : )
you might remember van dien from tim burton' s sleepy hollow, in which he played brom von brunt.
hidden gold is a 1932 american western film directed by arthur rosson and written by james mulhauser and jack natteford . the film stars tom mix , judith barrie , raymond hatton , eddie gribbon , donald kirke and wallis clark . the film was released on november 3 , 1932 , by universal pictures . 
hidden gold is a 1932 american western film directed by arthur rosson and written by james mulhauser and jack natteford. the film stars tom mix, judith barrie, raymond hatton, eddie gribbon, donald kirke and wallis clark. the film was released on november 3, 1932, by universal pictures.
hidden gold is a 1932 american western film directed by arthur rosson and written by james mulhauser and jack natteford. the film stars tom mix, judith barrie, raymond hatton, eddie gribbon, donald kirke and wallis clark. the film was released on november 3, 1932, by universal pictures.