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person_profile-Gordon Scott

Gordon Scott Died at age: 80

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Gordon Scott

Date of Birth:

Aug 03, 1926

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Apr 30, 2007

Biography of

Gordon Scott

    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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Gordon Scott

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Filmography of

Gordon Scott

Found 30 Movies in total

Tarzan: Lord of the Movies

Host / Tarzan (Archived Footage) ( Actor )

... 2017

... 1998

Investigating Tarzan

Self ( Actor )

... 1997

Women in Cell Block 7

(Archive Footage) ( Actor )

... 1973

The Movie Orgy

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1968

Top Secret

John Sutton ( Actor )

... 1967

Danger!! Death Ray

Bart Fargo ( Actor )

... 1967

The Tramplers

Lon Cordeen ( Actor )

... 1965

... 1965

... 1964

Thunder of Battle

Coriolanus ( Actor )

... 1964

Hero of Rome

Mucius ( Actor )

... 1964

The Lion of St. Mark

Manrico Venier ( Actor )

... 1963

... 1963

Hero of Babylon

Nippur ( Actor )

... 1963

The Conquest of Mycenae

Glauco / Hercules ( Actor )

... 1963

... 1963

The Shortest Day

Soldato (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1963

A Queen for Caesar

Julius Caesar ( Actor )

... 1962

Gladiator of Rome

Marcus ( Actor )

... 1962

... 1962

Duel of the Titans

Remus ( Actor )

... 1961

Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World

Maciste / Samson ( Actor )

... 1961

Goliath and the Vampires

Maciste (Goliath) ( Actor )

... 1961

Tarzan the Magnificent

Tarzan ( Actor )

... 1960

... 1959

Tarzan's Fight for Life

Tarzan ( Actor )

... 1958

Tarzan and the Trappers

Tarzan ( Actor )

... 1958

... 1957

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

Tarzan ( Actor )

... 1955