Tarzan

:Tarzan is also the name of a Russian 4-wheel drive vehicle manufactured by AutoVAZ.

Actors portraying Tarzan

A number of actors have played Tarzan over the years, with the most famous and longest-lasting being Johnny Weissmuller. Due to complex licensing issues relating to Tarzan, several Tarzan movie series actually overlapped. For example, Buster Crabbe, Herman Brix and Glenn Morris all made Tarzan films concurrently with the 1932-1948 Weismuller series. Mike Henry, meanwhile, played Tarzan in several theatrical releases that came out concurrently with Ron Ely's TV series (Henry had been approached to star in the TV series too, but had declined).

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Movies

• Gordon Griffith 1918 (young Tarzan)
• Elmo Lincoln 1918, 1918, 1921 (called the "first" Tarzan, but Gordon Griffith appears first in the film as his younger self)
• Gene Pollar 1920
• P. Dempsey Tabler 1920
• James Pierce 1927
• Frank Merrill 1928, 1929
• Johnny Weissmuller 1932, 1934, 1936, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948
• Buster Crabbe 1933
• Herman Brix later billed as Bruce Bennett 1935, 1938
• Glenn Morris 1938
• Lex Barker 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953
• Clint Walker 1954 (uncredited, in "Jungle Gents," a Bowery Boys movie)
• Gordon Scott 1955, 1957, 1958, 1958, 1959, 1960
• Denny Miller 1959
• Jock Mahoney 1962, 1963
• Ron Ely 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970
• Mike Henry 1966, 1967, 1968
• Miles O'Keeffe 1981
• Christophe Lambert 1984
• Casper Van Dien 1998
• Tony Goldwyn 1999 (voice of animated Tarzan)
• Alex D. Linz 1999 (voice of young animated Tarzan)

Radio

• James Pierce 1932-1934
• Carlton KaDell 1934-1936
• Lamont Johnson 1950-1951

TV

• Gordon Scott 1958
• Ron Ely 1966
• Robert Ridgely 1976 (voice, Filmation animated series)
• Joe Lara 1989
• Wolf Larson 1991
• Travis Fimmel 2003