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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.
The character Jai first appeared in the 1962 film Tarzan Goes to India, played by a young actor of the same name. A pair of two-part episodes from this series were also released to theaters as feature films under the titles Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion (1967) and Tarzan's Deadly Silence (1970).
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's Deadly Silence is a 1970 adventure film composed of an edited two-part television episode of Tarzan ... Jr. as Jai, Tarzan's youthful ward; Nichelle Nichols ...
Instead, his Tarzan was an educated depressed loner, much closer to Edgar Rice Burroughs's original conception of the character and Boy is replaced by a young orphan named Jai. Weintraub also produced two Sherlock Holmes films for television and was an owner of Panavision .
My Unconventional Life: Meet the real-life Tarzan who grew up with tigers and lions! AOL.com Editors. July 17, 2019 at 2:23 PM
Jai, orphan boy sidekick to Tarzan in the 1966–1968 television series; Jai , a fictional character in the classic 1975 Indian film Sholay; ACP Jai Dixit, fictional police officer, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), in the Dhoom franchise of Indian films; Jai, a shortened spelling of Luóhàn zhāi (Buddha's delight)
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.