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The Tarzan yell or Tarzan's jungle call is the distinctive, ululating yell of the character Tarzan as portrayed by actor Johnny Weissmuller in the films based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs starting with Tarzan the Ape Man . The yell was a creation of the movies based on what Burroughs described in his books as simply "the ...
Johnny Weissmuller (/ ˈ w aɪ s m ʌ l ər / WYSSE-mul-ər; born Johann Peter Weißmüller, German: [ˈjoːhan ˈpeːtɐ ˈvaɪsmʏlɐ]; June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was a Hungarian-born ethnic German American Olympic swimmer, water polo player and actor. He was known for having one of the best competitive-swimming records of the 20th ...
Tarzan the Ape Man is a 1932 pre-Code American action adventure film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and starring Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith and Maureen O'Sullivan. It was Weissmuller's first of 12 Tarzan films. O'Sullivan played Jane in six features between 1932 and 1942. [1]
Weissmuller's swimming brought fame, and his virile image got him cast in the “Tarzan the Ape Man” film in 1932 — the first of his 12 Tarzan films. There was, of course, the signature Tarzan yell — akin to a yodel — and what the character's creator Edgar Rice Burroughs described as “the victory cry of the bull ape."
Tarzan the Ape Man: Johnny Weissmuller: Irving Thalberg: W. S. Van Dyke: 1932 WB: The Tarzan Collection Starring Johnny Weissmuller First MGM film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: Tarzan and His Mate: Johnny Weissmuller: Bernard H. Hyman: Cedric Gibbons: 1934 WB: The Tarzan Collection Starring Johnny Weissmuller Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: Tarzan Escapes: Johnny ...
As an actor, Weissmuller played Tarzan, a character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, in 12 movies from 1932 to 1948. He later starred in 16 “Jungle Jim” moves and 26 half-hour episodes of a TV ...
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle is a 1955 black-and-white film from RKO Pictures directed by Harold D. Schuster and starring Gordon Scott in his first film as Tarzan, taking over the role from Lex Barker, who had in turn followed Johnny Weissmuller in the series. [2] The film about Edgar Rice Burroughs' ape-man also features Vera Miles and Jack Elam.
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 ...