It's a filthy job getting to the top, but someone's got to do it.

Rounding out the cast are Jane's father, Professor Archimedes Porter; Tantor, the germophobic elephant; and Terk, a wisecracking female gorilla and Tarzan's old wrestling buddy.

Ron Ely, the tall, musclebound actor who played the title character in the 1960s NBC series “Tarzan ... his jaw when the show’s pilot was being filmed, and Ely was cast in his place ...

Ron Ely, the handsome, affable 6-foot-4-inch actor who starred as “Tarzan” in a 1960s TV show, has died at age 86, five years after his wife and son were killed in a devastating family tragedy.

loincloth-wearing character for many TV viewers. Ely’s Tarzan, who appeared in a show that aired on NBC from 1966 to 1968, did not speak in the monosyllabic grunts often associated with the ...

You do Tarzan and you are stamped for life.’ Was I ever right!” he recalled in a 2013 interview. “But my agent convinced me it was a quality show and was going to work. So on the [next ...

That’s when he secured the lead role in NBC’s TV series Tarzan, a contemporary reinterpretation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s jungle tale from 1912. Ely led the series throughout the show’s ...

When I typed "Tarzan" in an Internet search engine I got 793,000 pages and when I did the same in e-bay I found more than 2,400 items offered for sale. Over the years there have been TV shows, radio ...

Ron Ely, the tall, musclebound actor who played the title character in the 1960s NBC series “Tarzan ... his jaw when the show ...