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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.
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]
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 ...
first Tarzan film in color TV film Tarzan and the Trappers: Gordon Scott: Sol Lesser: Charles F. Haas Sandy Howard: 1958 WB: The Tarzan Collection Starring Gordon Scott A black and white pilot film, re-edited from three unaired TV episodes and issued to theaters. The re-edited version was finally aired on TV in 1966. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: Tarzan ...
Ron Ely, the tall, musclebound actor who played the title character in the 1960s NBC series “Tarzan,” has died at age 86. ... Ron Ely, TV’s ‘Tarzan’ in the 1960s, dies at 86. WJW ...
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 ...
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 Associated Press on ...
Mahoney made three appearances on the Ron Ely Tarzan series--The Ultimate Weapon (1966), The Deadly Silence (1966) (a two-part episode, later edited into a feature film), and Mask of Rona (1967). In 1981, Mahoney returned to the Tarzan film series as the stunt coordinator on the John Derek-directed remake of Tarzan, the Ape Man.