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Ronald Pierce Ely (June 21, 1938 – September 29, 2024) was an American actor and novelist, best known for portraying Tarzan in the 1966–1968 NBC series Tarzan and playing the lead role in the film Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975). [1] He hosted the Miss America pageant telecast in 1980 and 1981.
It's been nearly two months since the tragic death of actor Ron Ely. According to a death certificate obtained by TMZ, the actor, best known for NBC TV's classic 1960s adaptation of Tarzan ...
Ron Ely, the tall, musclebound actor who played the title character in the 1960s NBC series “Tarzan,” has died at age 86. ... Former “Tarzan” actor Ron Ely during an interview in Los ...
The actor also appeared in hit 1980s television shows Wonder Woman and The Love Boat. ... Tarzan star Ron Ely dies aged 86. Ian Casey - BBC News ... October 24, 2024 at 2:34 AM [Getty Images] US ...
Andrew Prine with Ron Ely as Tarzan in the episode "The Ultimate Weapon" (September 16, 1966). Tarzan is a series that aired on NBC from 1966 to 1968. The series portrayed Tarzan (played by Ron Ely) as a well-educated character who had grown tired of civilization, and returned to the jungle where he had been raised. [1]
Ron Ely, famous for playing Tarzan in the original series, played a villain named Gordon Shaw in the first-season episode “Tarzan the Hunted”. Juma the Lion was performed by two trained male adult African lions. One of them was Sudan of Thousand Oaks, California's Animal Actors of Hollywood.
Ron Ely, best known for starring in the Tarzan television series, has died. He was 86. He was 86. Ron's daughter, Kirsten Ely, confirmed the sad news in an Instagram post on Wednesday, Oct. 23.
While Ron Ely was not quite as well-known as Johnny Weismuller, the Olympic swimmer who played Tarzan in movies in the 1930s and 1940s, Ely helped form the image of the shirtless, loincloth-wearing character further immortalized by Disney. “He was an actor, writer, coach, mentor, family man and leader,” Kirsten Ely said in an Instagram post ...