1926-08-03 ( 98 years old ) in Portland, Oregon, USA
Gordon Scott was an American film and television actor known for his portrayal of the fictional character Tarzan in five films (and one compilation of three made-as-a-pilot television episodes) of the Tarzan film series from 1955 to 1960. Gordon Scott was the eleventh Tarzan, starting with Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle. He was "discovered" poolside, and offered "a seven-year contract, a loin cloth, and a new last name."
"Due in part to his muscular frame and 6-foot-3-inch [1.91-metre] height, he was quickly signed to replace Lex Barker as Tarzan" by producer Sol Lesser. Lesser had Gordon change his name because "Werschkul" sounded too much like "Weismueller".
Scott's Tarzan movies ranged from rather cheap re-edited television pilots to large-scale action films with high-production values shot on location in Africa. In his early Tarzan films, he played the character as unworldly and inarticulate, in the mold of Johnny Weissmuller, an earlier Tarzan portrayer. In Scott's later films, after a change in producers, he played a Tarzan who was educated and spoke perfect English, as in the original Edgar Rice Burroughs novels. Scott was the only actor to play Tarzan in both styles.
Fearing he would become typecast as Tarzan, Scott moved to Italy and became a popular star in epics of the péplum genre (known in the United States as sword-and-sandal), featuring handsome bodybuilders as various characters from Greek and Roman myth. Scott was a friend of Steve Reeves, and collaborated with him as Remus to Reeves's Romulus in Duel of the Titans. Scott also played Hercules in a couple of international co-productions during the mid-1960s. As the péplum genre faded, Scott starred in spaghetti westerns and Eurospy films. His final film appearance was in The Tramplers (filmed in 1966; released in the United States in 1968).
Movies
Tarzan: Lord of the Movies
2017-01-01
In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross
1998-12-22
Investigating Tarzan
1997-01-01
Women in Cell Block 7
1973-07-05
The Movie Orgy
1968-01-01
Top Secret
1967-05-13
Danger!! Death Ray
1967-01-28
The Tramplers
1965-12-31
Hercules and the Princess of Troy
1965-03-08
Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West
1964-11-19
Thunder of Battle
1964-08-19
Hero of Rome
1964-04-22
The Lion of St. Mark
1963-11-21
Hero of Babylon
1963-08-22
The Conquest of Mycenae
1963-04-22
Zorro and the Three Musketeers
1963-02-14
The Shortest Day
1963-02-14
A Queen for Caesar
1962-12-22
Gladiator of Rome
1962-09-13
Kerim, Son of the Sheik
1962-06-29
Duel of the Titans
1961-12-06
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
1961-10-31
Goliath and the Vampires
1961-08-24
Tarzan the Magnificent
1960-07-20
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
1959-07-08
Tarzan's Fight for Life
1958-08-15
Tarzan and the Trappers
1958-01-01
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
1957-04-12
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955-02-16
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