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Edgar Rice Burroughs first introduced the world to Tarzan in a 1912 issue of The All Story Magazine. It wasn't long until Hollywood took notice of this popular literary character and decided that he should become a movie character too. The 1918 silent film Tarzan of the Apes starred Elmo Lincoln in the title role. 64-bit or 32-bit.

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It was a hit and Hollywood had a new hero, one that continues to enthrall movie-goers to this day. This guide to the actors who have played Tarzan is as complete as I could put together. If you know of any omissions, let me know in the comments section. Please note that all photos used on this page, if not otherwise indicated, were sourced from Amazon or eBay. Big, barrel-chested Elmo Lincoln was the first actor to bring Tarzan to the big screen, in the 1918 silent film, Tarzan of The Apes.

Edgar Rice Burroughs wasn't impressed with Lincoln and didn't want him to play the role. Rice preferred actor Stellen Windrow, who had given up acting at the outbreak of World War I. This left the role available for Lincoln. A second film, Romance of Tarzan, was released in 1918 and also starred Lincoln. In 1921 Lincoln starred again as the famous ape man, in the 15-part movie serial The Adventures of Tarzan.

Lincoln died of a heart attack in 1952. Griffith's got his first acting role when he was seven, playing a regular part in the four Little Billy short movies in 1914 and 1915. Mack Sennett of Keystone Studios cast Griffith in several of his slapstick comedy movies and Griffith played opposite Charlie Chaplin, playing a paperboy in Tillie's Punctured Romance.

Tarzan the Ape Man - Official Trailer 02:29 — The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker (Bo Derek) visits her father (Richard Harris) in Africa where she joins him on an expedition.

Milton Berle often took credit for playing this role, but it was Griffith's work. In 1918 he played the boy Tarzan in the silent Tarzan of the Apes. Griffith's career made the transition from silent films to talkies, but he got smaller roles. His last role was in the 1936 film Outlaws of the Range.

After that, Griffith moved into other areas of the movie industry and got his first job as assistant director at 23. He continued to work as an assistant director until 1940, and had over 20 films to his credit. Griffith produced five films between 1937 and 1956 and worked as an associate producer under Robert E. In 1941 he worked as a director and associate producer with Gregory Ratoff Productions.

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That same year he was named production manager at Columbia Studios but he eventually moved on to RKO to work as an associate producer. Griffith died of a heart attack in 1958 at age 51. Born in 1876, Perce Dempsey Tabler had a varied career: opera singer, businessman, founding member of Paramount Pictures, athlete, and wearer of Tarzan's loincloth. Beginning in the summer of 1920, Tabler starred in a 15-chapter movie serial, The Son of Tarzan, based on a Edgar Rice Burroughs story of the same title. The series tells the story of Korak, son of Tarzan and Jane, who is kidnapped and taken to Africa.

Gordon Griffith played the role of of Korak as a child and Kamuela C. Searle as an adult.

The role was Tabler's first acting role and he did act in one more film, Spawn of the Desert in 1923. He went on to become successful in advertising. Samuel Cooper Searle was born in Hawaii in 1890. Around 1915 he met director Cecil B. Demille on the beach at Waikiki.

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DeMille was so taken with Searle that he encouraged him to pursue a career in film. It has been said that Searle acted in small parts in a few early DeMille films, though he is not credited for any acting work during this time.

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During World War I, Searle enlisted in the U.S. Army and was wounded in France. When he was discharged, he changed his first name to Kamuela, the Hawaiian spelling of Samuel. In 1919 he appeared, uncredited, in DeMille's Male and Female. In 1920, Searle took the role of a young Tarzan in the 15-part movie serial The Son of Tarzan.