Los Angeles Associated Press —Ron Ely, the tall, musclebound actor who played the title character in the 1960s NBC series “Tarzan,” has died at age 86.
While Ron Ely was not quite as well-known as Johnny Weismuller, the Olympic swimmer who played Tarzan in movies in the 1930s and 1940s, Ely helped form the image of the shirtless, loincloth-wearing character further immortalized by Disney.
“He was an actor, writer, coach, mentor, family man and leader,” Kirsten Ely said in an Instagram post.
Ron Ely, who was home during the stabbing, challenged the prosecutor’s report that his son’s shooting was justified.
You do Tarzan and you are stamped for life’,” Ely told the Daily Express.
Persons:
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Organizations:
Angeles Associated Press, NBC, Associated Press, Disney, Miss America, London’s Daily Express, Daily Express
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Los Alamos , California, Santa Barbara County, Santa, Miss Florida, American, Brazil, Beach, ”, Hereford , Texas, Amarillo