Ron Ely
Ronald Pierce "Ron" Ely (born June 21, 1938) is an American actor and novelist born in Hereford, Texas. Ely is best known for having portrayed Tarzan in the 1966 NBC series Tarzan and for playing the lead role in the 1975 film Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze.
Ely obtained the role after playing various bit-parts, including an airplane navigator in the 1958 film South Pacific and a guest-starring role on Barbara Eden's first television series, the romantic comedy How to Marry a Millionaire. Ely's height (6' 4") and athletic build also won him the title role in the 1975 film Doc Savage, as well as various guest shots. In a 1978 Fantasy Island episode, for example, Ely portrayed Mark Antony in a Roman military short tunic and breastplate that displayed almost as much of his physique as his Tarzan costume had.
From 1960-61, Ely starred in the series The Aquanauts. In the 1980s, Ely hosted the musical game show Face the Music. Additionally, Ely hosted the 1980 and 1981 Miss America Pageants, replacing longtime host Bert Parks.
In the 1990s, Ely’s roles included a retired Superman in the 1991 two-part episode "The Road to Hell" of the Superboy syndicated television series, and a big game hunter named Gordon Shaw in the 1992 episode "Tarzan the Hunted" of the syndicated Tarzán TV series (starring Wolf Larson).
In recent years Ely has embarked on a successful writing career and has penned two mystery novels featuring private eye Jake Sands: Night Shadows (1994) and East Beach (1995). Until about 2001, Ely made appearances on popular TV shows, his most recent being Sheena and Renegade. He is now retired from acting.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 12.638 |
Birthday | 1938-06-21 |
Place of Birth | Hereford, Texas, USA |
Also Known As | Ronald Pierce Ely, Ronald Ely, |
1966
The Night of the Grizzly
5.5/24
Marshall "Big Jim" Cole turns in his badge and heads to Wyoming with his family in order to settle on some land left him by a relative. He faces oppos...
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The Night of the Grizzly
1967
Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion
5/2
In this exciting jungle adventure the esteemed archaeologist, Dr Singleton, and his daughter, Mary, travel to mystical Africa in search of an ancient...
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Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion
1975
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
4.9/38
In the Fabulous Thirties, Doc Savage and his five Amazing Adventurers are sucked into the mystery of Doc's father disappearing in the wilds of South A...
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Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
1958
The Fiend Who Walked The West
5.7/3
Lawmen free a convict to hunt his ex-cellmate.
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The Fiend Who Walked The West
1972
Alleluja & Sartana Are Sons... Sons of God
1.8/2
Two conmen, posing as missionaries, are out to swindle the members of a church group in this slapstick western.
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Alleluja & Sartana Are Sons... Sons of God
2017
Tarzan Revisited
6/1
Tarzan: the super hero who never goes out of fashion. The son of British Royalty, he is raised by apes in the African jungle and finds his true love,...
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Tarzan Revisited
1978
Slavers
3.5/2
A story about slave hunting, colonialism, revenge and love.
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Slavers
1966
Once Before I Die
4/2
Stranded behind enemy lines when the Japanese attack the Philippines in late 1941, Lt. Bailey must lead a group of soldiers and their families to safe...
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Once Before I Die
1972
Cry of the Black Wolves
4.9/7
A fur hunter living as a hermit in the Alaskan mountains is mistakenly suspected of the murder of a gold prospector. The murdered man's sister hires a...
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Cry of the Black Wolves
1976
Mitgift
4.7/3
Edgar Burgman, after collaborating to assassinate the elder senator husband of Alice Young, the wife remarried. The woman, after a short period, doubt...
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Mitgift
2014
Expecting Amish
6.6/29
Expecting Amish tells the story of 18-year-old Hannah Yoder, who is ready to join the Amish Church and marry her boyfriend Samuel. But things change w...
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Expecting Amish
1959
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
6/4
In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisb...
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The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
1998
In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross
0/0
A look at Tarzan on the big and small screen with interviews with some of those who have played him.
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In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross
1970
Tarzan's Deadly Silence
4/2
Tarzan tries to stop a bloodthirsty Colonel from taking over an African village with his soldiers of fortune. The ape-man has been rendered deaf by an...
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Tarzan's Deadly Silence
1958
South Pacific
6.127/102
Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where sh...
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South Pacific
1968
Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army
0/0
Tarzan has to deal with slave traders who are making raids into African villages to get slaves.
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Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army
1971
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
0/0
Jai, the orphaned boy adopted by the Monkey Man, helps missionary Charity Jones bring an organ to a friendly tribe, but they are captured by hostile n...
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Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
1967
The Mountains of the Moon
0/0
A religious sect, cheated by an adventurer, wants to occupy an African territory not knowing that it is inhabited by a bloodthirsty tribe. Luckily Tar...
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