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."
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).
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Filmography (Movies)
Tarzan: Lord of the Movies
Character:Host / Tarzan (Archived Footage)
Release Date:01/01/2017
In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross
Character:Self
Release Date:22/12/1998
Investigating Tarzan
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1997
Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan
Character:Tarzan (archive footage)
Release Date:08/06/1996
Women in Cell Block 7
Character:(Archive Footage)
Release Date:05/07/1973
The Movie Orgy
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1968
Top Secret
Character:John Sutton
Release Date:13/05/1967
Danger!! Death Ray
Character:Bart Fargo
Release Date:28/01/1967
The Tramplers
Character:Lon Cordeen
Release Date:31/12/1965
Hercules and the Princess of Troy
Character:Hercules
Release Date:08/03/1965
L'Attaque de Fort Adams (Une aventure de Buffalo Bill)
Character:Buffalo Bill
Release Date:17/02/1965
Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West
Character:Buffalo Bill
Release Date:19/11/1964
Thunder of Battle
Character:Coriolanus
Release Date:19/08/1964
Hero of Rome
Character:Mucius
Release Date:22/04/1964
The Lion of St. Mark
Character:Manrico Venier
Release Date:21/11/1963
The Tyrant of Lydia Against the Son of Hercules
Character:Goliath / Gordian
Release Date:04/09/1963
Hero of Babylon
Character:Nippur
Release Date:22/08/1963
The Conquest of Mycenae
Character:Glauco / Hercules
Release Date:22/04/1963
Zorro and the Three Musketeers
Character:Zorro
Release Date:14/02/1963
The Shortest Day
Character:Soldato (uncredited)
Release Date:14/02/1963
A Queen for Caesar
Character:Julius Caesar
Release Date:22/12/1962
Gladiator of Rome
Character:Marcus
Release Date:13/09/1962
Kerim, Son of the Sheik
Character:Kerim
Release Date:29/06/1962
Romulus and Remus
Character:Remus
Release Date:06/12/1961
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
Character:Maciste / Samson
Release Date:31/10/1961
Goliath and the Vampires
Character:Maciste (Goliath)
Release Date:24/08/1961
Tarzan the Magnificent
Character:Tarzan
Release Date:20/07/1960
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
Character:Tarzan
Release Date:17/06/1959
Tarzan's Fight for Life
Character:Tarzan
Release Date:15/08/1958
Tarzan and the Trappers
Character:Tarzan
Release Date:01/01/1958
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
Character:Tarzan
Release Date:12/04/1957
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Character:Tarzan
Release Date:16/02/1955
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