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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.
Ron Ely filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the force, though the judge ruled the officers had acted in self-defence. The Tarzan star died at his home in Los Alamos in Santa Barbara, California ...
Ron Ely, the tall, musclebound actor who played the title character in the 1960s NBC series “Tarzan,” has died at age 86.
The star of 1960s ‘Tarzan’ series reportedly died from end-stage heart disease. ... Tarzan star Ron Ely’s cause of death released. Inga Parkel. November 21, 2024 at 11:38 AM.
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’s cause of death was revealed seven weeks after his death on Sunday, Sept. 29, at the age of 86. According to his death certificate obtained by TMZ, the Tarzan star died from "end-stage ...
Tarzán is a television series that aired in syndication from 1991–1994.In this version of the show, Tarzan (Wolf Larson) was portrayed as a blond environmentalist, with Jane (Lydie Denier) turned into a French ecologist.
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 ...