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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 ...
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.
US actor Ron Ely, best known for playing the role of Tarzan in the 1960s television show of the same name, has died aged 86. "The world has lost one of the greatest men it has ever known - and I ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ron Ely, the tall, musclebound actor who played the title character in the 1960s NBC series “Tarzan,” has died at age 86. Ely’s daughter, Kirsten Casale Ely, told The ...
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] The first five episodes (1–4 and 7 in transmission order) were filmed in Brazil; the production then relocated to Mexico.
Elmo Lincoln starred in the first Tarzan feature, Tarzan of the Apes (1918), a faithful cinematic rendering of Burroughs' first Tarzan novel. The first portion of the film featured Gordon Griffith as the young Tarzan, so Griffith could technically be considered the first screen Tarzan. (Early in the film, Tarzan is also shown as a baby played ...
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 ...