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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]
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.
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]
Former “Tarzan” actor Ron Ely during an interview in Los Angeles on Dec. 28, 1987. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
Ron Ely, the tall, musclebound actor who played the title character in the 1960s NBC series “Tarzan,” has died at age 86.
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.
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. In 2019, he tragically returned to the news when his 62-year-old wife, Valerie Lundeen Ely, was stabbed to ...
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 ...