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34 unusual facts about Tarzan


Anibal Lopez

He read about Tarzan’s adventures in the comic books and watched former Olympic swimmerJohnny Weissmuller play the hero in the popular movie series.

Antonio Roma

Nicknamed Tarzan for the way of throwing himself for the ball, he started his professional career with Ferrocarril Oeste in 1955, where he played until 1959.

Archie Stout

In a career largely confined to B movies, he provided cinematography assistance on such films as the original version of The Ten Commandments (1923) and several Hopalong Cassidy and Tarzan films.

Brendon Gale

He was recognisable on the field with his long hair and strong physique which resembled Tarzan, one of the nicknames which fans gave him.

David Ritchie

David "Tarzan" Ritchie (born 1945), Shinty player and winner of 12 Camanachd Cup medals

Don Bragg

Nicknamed "Tarzan" because of his size and strength, Bragg's goal was to play that role in the movies.

Electric Banana Band

The band takes on a jungle theme, partially borrowing elements from The Phantom, a widely popular comic in Sweden, as well as Tarzan.

Grace Olive Wiley

After parting ways with Brookfield Zoo, Wiley moved to California, where she became a snake trainer and reptile consultant for Hollywood films such as Moon Over Burma, The Jungle Book, and the Tarzan series.

Grupa I

Kuštrin made a guest appearance on the Du-Du-A debut single "Ja Tarzan ti Džejn" ("I Tarzan you Jane"), released in 1982.

Henry Frederick Werker

In intellectual property matters, Werker authored an opinion concerning contractual rights to produce films and television programs based on the character Hopalong Cassidy, and presided over a hearing in which heirs to the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan, sought to enjoin release of Tarzan, the Ape Man, the 1981 motion picture based on the character, unless certain revealing footage of Bo Derek was cut.

Hereford, Texas

Ron Ely, best remembered for his role as Tarzan on an NBC television series in the middle 1960s, was born in Hereford in 1938.

Hyperpilosity

Various examples of the troubles resulting are told; the cast of the latest Tarzan movie, for instance, is reduced to frequent all-over shaving to be able to continue filming.

James F. Cahill

In the 1950s, Cahill founded the Hui Kai scuba training camp on Children's Island in Salem, MA along with his business partner Buster Crabbe, the then well-known original Tarzan actor.

Love Songs: A Compilation... Old and New

#* From the Tarzan Soundtrack, and a Top 20 hit single in the UK in 1999.

Newt Perry

He played a significant role in the production of MGM's Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939) at Silver Springs and Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) at Wakulla Springs through his relationship with actor-swimmer Johnny Weismuller who played Tarzan.

One Leg Too Few

:Cook: Mr Spiggott - you are, I believe, auditioning for the part of Tarzan.

Republic Motor Truck Company

The author Edgar Rice Burroughs (creator of Tarzan) purchased a Republic truck in 1916 and drove it across the United States.

Rudolph Altrocchi

Altrocchi's 1944 book Sleuthing in the Stacks was a collection of irreverent essays in which Altrocchi deftly dissected such varied topics as forged marginal notes in an obscure Renaissance text, the literary and mythical predecessors of Tarzan, and the image of Dante in a minor painting in a church in Florence.

So Long Mr. Chumps

Bruce Bennett (a.k.a. Herman Brix, a former Olympic athlete and Tarzan actor) appears as one of the guards giving orders to the stooges.

Sogni mostruosamente proibiti

In the course of his visions plays with effects tragicomic popular heroes of the literature and comics, like Parsifal, Superman and Tarzan.

Tarzán

Tarzán was a half-hour syndicated series that aired 19911994.

Ron Ely, famous for playing Tarzan in the original series, played a character named Gorden Shaw in the first season episode “Tarzan the Hunted”.

Tarzan Finds a Son!

Independent producer Sol Lesser obtained the rights to make five Tarzan movies, but the first of these, Tarzan's Revenge, proved to be a flop.

Tarzan, Texas

The community was named after the fictional character of Tarzan.

Tarzan: Silver Screen King of the Jungle

Written and directed by John Rust, the documentary features interviews with film historians Rudy Behlmer and Scott Tracy Griffin, who discuss the films' literary antecedents and behind-the-scenes production details.

Tarzan's Fight for Life

However, the extremely low-budget project failed to sell, and the three half-hour episodes were spliced into an ersatz feature, Tarzan and the Trappers, released to television in 1966.

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure

This film portrayed a grittier, more realistic Tarzan who could be as savage as his opponents but could also speak eloquently and politely to a woman (Sara Shane) who gets involved in the plot (he also makes love to her in the jungle at one point, without making any reference to Jane).

Tarzan's Magic Fountain

(The other was Karla Schramm in the silent era.) Tarzan's Magic Fountain was Joyce's final turn in the role, and different actresses played Jane in each of Barker's four subsequent Tarzan movies: (Vanessa Brown, Virginia Huston, Dorothy Hart, and Joyce MacKenzie).

Tarzan's New York Adventure

This film was the sixth and final film in MGM's Tarzan series and was the studio's last Tarzan film until their 1958 release, Tarzan's Fight for Life, directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and starring Gordon Scott and Eve Brent.

Tarzan's Peril

The movie was directed by Byron Haskin and is frequently shown under the alternate titles Jungle Queen and Tarzan and the Jungle Queen.

Tarzan's Revenge

Eleanor Holm, a popular swimming star, co-starred as Eleanor Reed.

Tarzan's Savage Fury

Tarzan's Savage Fury is a 1952 film starring Lex Barker as Tarzan, Dorothy Hart as Jane, and Patric Knowles.

The Mighty Peking Man

Like Tarzan, she has learned both to swing through the trees on vines and to communicate with and command the jungle animals, with the exception of a venomous snake who bites her on the inner thigh requiring the hero Johnny to suck out the poison while Samantha's leopard friend fights the snake.

Windber, Pennsylvania

Johnny Weissmuller, winner in the 1920s of five Olympic gold medals in swimming and one bronze medal in water polo, and later was a Hollywood star best known for his Tarzan movies, particularly with actress Maureen O'Sullivan, lived in Windber as a child.


Baltimora

The single "Tarzan Boy" bounced back into the Billboard Hot 100 chart in March 1993 as a remix, climbing to No.51, at the time of its appearance in a Listerine commercial.

Bikini Cavegirl

One of the funnier aspects of the film is said to be its references to B-films such as Roger Corman's Teenage Cave Man (1958) and Gordon Scott Tarzan films.

Brenda Chapman

Chapman is married to director Kevin Lima (A Goofy Movie, Tarzan, Enchanted), who she met at California Institute of the Arts.

Bruce W. Smith

In 1998 he joined Walt Disney Feature Animation, Smith served as a supervising animator on four of its films: Tarzan, The Emperor's New Groove, Home on the Range and The Princess and the Frog.

Buruuba

Like Johnny Weissmuller who starred in classic Tarzan films, the starring actor Shigeyoshi Suzuki was also an Olympic swimming medalist in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Eric Kripke

He later developed and wrote for The WB's 2003 television series Tarzan, which was cancelled after eight episodes, and followed this by writing the 2005 film Boogeyman.

Flights of Fantasy Parade

Jumpin' Jungle Jam: Characters such as Baloo and King Louie from The Jungle Book, Rafiki and Timon from The Lion King, and Tantor from Tarzan feature on this float, styled to look like the jungle.

Gizmo!

Early examples of parkour and buildering are also featured, including footage of urban acrobat John Ciampa, the "Brooklyn Tarzan".

Mitch Pileggi

Pileggi's later work has included starring in the short-lived TV show Tarzan and co-starring with Barbara Hershey and Oliver Hudson in the short-lived TV show The Mountain.

Newquay Zoo

A Tarzan activity adventure Trail, Children's Play Area and the Dragon Maze (designed by mazemaker Adrian Fisher in 1983) are provided for children's entertainment.

Newtonmore Camanachd Club

Two of the greatest names in shinty history, goalkeeper Hugh Chisholm and David "Tarzan" Ritchie jointly hold the Newtonmore club record of twelve Camanachd Cup winners medals each.

Sol Lesser

In 1933 Lesser succeeded in buying screen rights to Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan character.

Stephen Purdy

His work on Broadway includes Disney's Tarzan, Glory Days, Peter Pan (starring Cathy Rigby), the original Fantasticks and Frankenstein with Hunter Foster and has also toured the United States with the Broadway Musicals The Full Monty, Spelling Bee, and Peter Pan.

Steve Loter

Loter also directed the Happy Monster Band, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, and Disney's Tarzan series, as well as episodes of The Ren and Stimpy Show, Duckman, Stressed Eric and Kevin Smith's Clerks The Animated Series.

Tarzan and the Castaways

Tarzan is stranded on a Pacific island inhabited by the remnant of a lost Mayan civilization.

Tarzan, his monkey friend Nkima, and Chief Muviro and his faithful Waziri warriors confront an American prize fighter who has come to Africa to hunt the wildlife.

Tarzan and the City of Gold

Another difference is that Phobeg (voiced by Ted Cassidy in the first two appearances, Alan Oppenheimer in the third appearance) becomes Tarzan's ally in those episodes.

Tarzan and the Lost Safari

It was also MGM's first Tarzan film since 1942 and filmed in Nairobi, British East Africa.

Tarzan Finds a Son!

Everyone on the plane dies, except for the baby who is rescued by Cheeta, Tarzan's chimpanzee.

Tarzan II

Glenn Close and Lance Henriksen reprise their roles as Kala and Kerchak from the first movie; Harrison Chad, Brenda Grate, and Harrison Fahn are the new voices for Young Tarzan, Terk, and Tantor.

Harrison Fahn as Tantor - A germophobic, panic-prone elephant, loyal to his friends, Terk and Tarzan, despite these impediments.

Tarzan's two best friends, Terk and Tantor (voiced by Brenda Grate and Harrison Fahn) come looking for him, but Tarzan does not want to return home with them.

Tarzan in Manhattan

Warren Zevon's Leave My Monkey Alone plays on the soundtrack as Tarzan's plane flies over prominent New York landmarks.

Tarzan the Fearless

Lesser's contract included a clause that Tarzan must be played by "Big Jim" Pierce, Burroughs' son-in-law and the star of Tarzan and the Golden Lion.

Tarzan the Terrible

He has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which means "Land of Men." In Pal-ul-don Tarzan finds a real Jurassic Park filled with dinosaurs, notably the savage Triceratops-like Gryfs, which unlike their prehistoric counterparts are predatory.

Tarzan the Tiger

Al Ferguson as "Albert Werper, Soldier of Fortune—a guest at Greystoke Manor in the guise of a friendly Scientist" Al Ferguson was also again cast as the villain of the story but not the same character (or even a slightly renamed character, as with Jane. In Tarzan the Mighty he played the pirate Black John).

Tarzan Triumphs

Weismuller was reunited with two of his three co-stars from several of the earlier films, Johnny Sheffield and Cheeta, but Maureen O'Sullivan was unable to reprise her role as Jane because the franchise switched from MGM to RKO, and O'Sullivan was an MGM contract player.

Tarzan Tyler

Tarzan Tyler died, along with fellow wrestler Pierre 'Mad Dog' Lefebvre and referee Adrien Desbois, in Laurentides Wildlife Reserve upon returning from a wrestling event in Chicoutimi, Quebec on December 24, 1985, in a car crash.

The New Adventures of Tarzan

(Sol Lesser had acquired options for five Tarzan productions from a defunct company, the first of which he used to make Tarzan the Fearless in direct competition with MGM's films.) MGM paid Lesser $500,000 for his options and paid Burroughs $25–50,000 per film.

The Return of Tarzan

Afterwords, Tarzan sails for Cape Town and strikes up a shipboard acquaintance with Hazel Strong, a friend of Jane's.

Wakulla River

Movies filmed in Wakulla Springs and river include several Tarzan movies, starring Johnny Weissmuller, and Creature from the Black Lagoon.

White Princess of the Jungle

Historically, Taanda is predated in literature by Sheena, (a distaff Tarzan who inspired a number of comic book jungle girls), jungle lovely Rulah, and by Rima, the heroine of William Henry Hudson's novel Green Mansions (1904).

Yoshihiro Hamaguchi

After retiring he debuted as an actor in the 1955 film Buruuba as a Japanese version of Tarzan.