Gordon Scott

Gordon Scott

Acting 1926-08-03 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).

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2017 Host / Tarzan (Archived Footage)
1997 Self
1973 (Archive Footage)
1968 Self (archive footage)
1967 Bart Fargo
1967 John Sutton
1965 Lon Cordeen
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1964 Mucius
1964 Buffalo Bill
1964 Coriolanus
1963 Glauco / Hercules
1963 Manrico Venier
1963 Zorro
1963 Nippur
1963 Goliath / Gordian
1963 Soldato (uncredited)
1962 Marcus
1962 Kerim
1962 Julius Caesar
1962 Producer
1961 Remus
1961 Maciste (Goliath)
1961 Maciste / Samson
1960 Tarzan
1959 Tarzan
1959 Producer
1958 Tarzan
1958 Tarzan
1956 Self
1955 Tarzan