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Manuel Padilla Jr. (July 13, 1955 – January 29, 2008) [1] was an American child actor who began appearing in films at age 8. He is best remembered for playing Jai on the 1960s Tarzan television series starring Ron Ely .
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]
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold is a 1966 Eastmancolor adventure film starring Mike Henry in his debut as Tarzan. [1] The Panavision film, the twenty-sixth film of the Tarzan film series that began with 1932's Tarzan the Ape Man, produced by Sy Weintraub, written by Clair Huffaker, and directed by Robert Day, is remembered for its very James Bond-like portrayal of a tropical-suited ...
Taffy and the Jungle Hunter is a 1965 American adventure film directed by Terry O. Morse and written by Arthur Hoerl and Al Zimbalist.The film stars Jacques Bergerac, Manuel Padilla Jr., Shary Marshall and Hari Rhodes.
Tarzan's Deadly Silence is a 1970 adventure film composed of an edited two-part television episode of Tarzan released as a feature.It stars Ron Ely as Tarzan.Former Tarzan actor Jock Mahoney and Woody Strode (a veteran of two previous Tarzan films) co-star.
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Though Ely's Tarzan did not have Jane, he was accompanied by Cheeta the chimpanzee from the movies and a child sidekick, the orphan boy Jai (Manuel Padilla, Jr.), who also played the similar roles of Ramel and Pepe in Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966) and Tarzan and the Great River (1967).