Ron Ely
Nacimiento : 1938-06-21, Hereford, Texas, USA
Historia
Ronald Pierce "Ron" Ely (born June 21, 1938) is an American actor and novelist born in Hereford, Texas. Ely is best known for having portrayed Tarzan in the 1966 NBC series Tarzan and for playing the lead role in the 1975 film Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze.
Ely obtained the role after playing various bit-parts, including an airplane navigator in the 1958 film South Pacific and a guest-starring role on Barbara Eden's first television series, the romantic comedy How to Marry a Millionaire. Ely's height (6' 4") and athletic build also won him the title role in the 1975 film Doc Savage, as well as various guest shots. In a 1978 Fantasy Island episode, for example, Ely portrayed Mark Antony in a Roman military short tunic and breastplate that displayed almost as much of his physique as his Tarzan costume had.
From 1960-61, Ely starred in the series The Aquanauts. In the 1980s, Ely hosted the musical game show Face the Music. Additionally, Ely hosted the 1980 and 1981 Miss America Pageants, replacing longtime host Bert Parks.
In the 1990s, Ely’s roles included a retired Superman in the 1991 two-part episode "The Road to Hell" of the Superboy syndicated television series, and a big game hunter named Gordon Shaw in the 1992 episode "Tarzan the Hunted" of the syndicated Tarzán TV series (starring Wolf Larson).
In recent years Ely has embarked on a successful writing career and has penned two mystery novels featuring private eye Jake Sands: Night Shadows (1994) and East Beach (1995). Until about 2001, Ely made appearances on popular TV shows, his most recent being Sheena and Renegade. He is now retired from acting.
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Himself
Tarzan: the super hero who never goes out of fashion. The son of British Royalty, he is raised by apes in the African jungle and finds his true love, Jane. Swinging through trees, communicating with wild animals, he is exotic, entertaining and accessible. This film recounts the birth of the character in the mind of Edgar Rice Burroughs and how each generation has reinvented and reinterpreted him.
Elder Miller
Un grupo de chicos amish cumplen con el rito de pasar unos días fuera de la comunidad para regresar con sus convicciones religiosas reforzadas. Pero tras su inmersión en el mundo real, disfrutando de los avances, comodidades y diversiones prohibidas, Hannah vuelve muy a su pesar, pues ha conocido a un chico por quien siente mucho más que por su novio amish con el que está prometida desde pequeña. Hanna se debate entre abandonar a su familia o abandonar al primer amor de su vida.
Himself
A look at Tarzan on the big and small screen with interviews with some of those who have played him.
Steven Hamilton
A story about slave hunting, colonialism, revenge and love.
Kurt
Edgar Burgman, after collaborating to assassinate the elder senator husband of Alice Young, the wife remarried. The woman, after a short period, doubts of love Edgar and convinces more and more that, having married out of interest, now wants to eliminate the possession of his great assets.
Clark 'Doc' Savage Jr.
Adaptación de un popular cómic de Lester Dent. Clark "Doc" Savage Jr. es un maestro en la lucha contra el crimen y al tiempo un brillante científico. En esta aventura, Clark recibe la noticia de que su padre ha fallecido de una rara enfermedad en la República de Hidalgo, en Sudamérica.
Hallelujah
Dos estafadores, tras ayudar a los miembros de una iglesia de un pueblo pequeño, pierden su dinero por culpa de una banda de ladrones.
Bill Robinson
Ambientada en las tierras de Alaska, el film narra cómo un joven va tras la pista de los asesinos de su padre.
Tarzan
Tarzan tries to stop a bloodthirsty Colonel from taking over an African village with his soldiers of fortune. The ape-man has been rendered deaf by an exploding hand grenade, effectively limiting one of his keen senses. Tarzan relies on his telepathic powers to stop a lion. Woody Strode also appears in this film that combines two made for television episodes.
Tarzan
Tarzán se enfrenta a mercaderes de esclavos que están asediando los pueblos africanos para obtener esclavos.
Tarzan
In this exciting jungle adventure the esteemed archaeologist, Dr Singleton, and his daughter, Mary, travel to mystical Africa in search of an ancient artifact: the fabled Blue Stone of Heaven. Imbued with the unfathomable power to bestow its holder with immense strength, the statuette attracts corrupt Colonel Tatakombi, who, blind with greed, intends to spark an uprising, and turn the natives against Tarzan. Can mighty Tarzan avert the jungle rebellion?
Soldier
Stranded behind enemy lines when the Japanese attack the Philippines in late 1941, Lt. Bailey must lead a group of soldiers and their families (including Bailey's curvaceous fiancée Alex) to safety and the streets of Manila. During the perilous trek Alex befriends a virginal young soldier whose only desire is to have sex once before he dies.
Ted Curry
Un antiguo representante de la ley se traslada con su familia a Wyoming con la intención de reconstruir el rancho de su padre y comenzar una nueva vida. Al llegar deberá enfrentarse a un feroz oso que aterroriza a los colonos y a un peligroso enemigo que busca venganza.
Wilbur Fielding
In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia, he has successfully kept two separate homes. However, when an emergency requires his oldest son to find him, Mr. Pennypacker's dual life is revealed.
Deputy Jim Dyer
Lawmen free a convict to hunt his ex-cellmate.
Navigator
En 1943, la Armada de los Estados Unidos ha establecido numerosas bases en las islas Salomón, con el objetivo de prepararse para una posible invasión en las costas de Nueva Guinea. En una de las islas vive un jardinero francés llamado Emile de Becque, a quien la Armada busca para contratar como "elemento de reconocimiento" y obtener información de las tropas japonesas invasoras. Antes de completar su misión, Becque se encuentra con la enfermera Nellie Forbush de la Armada. En medio de un musical, la trama restante se devela.
South Pacific es una adaptación cinematográfica de 1958 del musical South Pacific, basado en la novela Tales of the South Pacific, de James A. Michener.
Tarzan
Jai, the orphaned boy adopted by the Monkey Man, helps missionary Charity Jones bring an organ to a friendly tribe, but they are captured by hostile natives.
