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When Tarzan was an infant, his mother died, and his father was killed by Kerchak, leader of the ape tribe by whom Tarzan was adopted. Soon after his parents' death, Tarzan became a feral child, and his tribe of apes is known as the Mangani, great apes of a species unknown to science. Kala is his ape mother.
He first appeared in the initial Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912) and reappeared in the second book, The Return of Tarzan (1913), and the sixth, Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1916/17). When Tarzan's parents are lost in Africa and presumed deceased, the older John Clayton's title passes to the line of his younger brother and thence to his ...
In the film's retelling Tarzan's parents are killed by Sabor the leopard, and Kala saves the infant Tarzan from Sabor, not Kerchak. Her own child having been previously killed by the same leopard, Kala adopts Tarzan as her own, though Kerchak disapproves of this. Kala is portrayed as the aunt of Terk, later Tarzan's best friend.
Kerchak doubts Tarzan during his childhood, but begins to accept him in adulthood after Tarzan kills Sabor (who was responsible for killing both Tarzan's parents, and Kerchak and Kala's son) and saves the group from the hunter Clayton. At the climax, he takes a lethal shot for Tarzan from Clayton's rifle. Once Clayton is dealt with, Kerchak ...
Tarzan and a young German find a lost remnant of the Roman empire hidden in the mountains of Africa. This novel is notable for the introduction of Nkima, who serves as Tarzan's monkey companion in it and a number of later Tarzan stories. It also reintroduces Muviro, first seen in Tarzan and the Golden Lion, as sub-chief of Tarzan's Waziri warriors.
Beyond TV's Tarzan, which aired for two years, Ron Ely was cast in another short-lived, but iconic series. He portrayed Mike Nelson in the syndicated reboot of Sea Hunt, which lasted one season.
Justin Baldoni’s rise to fame wouldn’t be complete without a supportive family by his side. The actor gained popularity after playing Rafael Solano on Jane the Virgin from 2014 to 2019.
The 1932 sound film Tarzan the Ape Man and its sequels changed the character's name to Jane Parker, portraying her as English rather than American and making her and Tarzan the adoptive parents of an orphan they named "Boy". In addition, the name of Jane's father in the first film is James Parker.