‘Tarzan’ star Ron Ely dead at 86: ‘There was something truly magical about him’

NY Post ^ | 10/23/2024 | Sean Mandell

[stars & stripes forever]

[V_TWIN]

RIP Sir...Great childhood memories

[Fledermaus]

I enjoyed “Doc Savage” as a kid.

[No name given]

Rest In Peace, Ron.

[Texas resident]

If Tarzan was a cajun and jane was a cajun, what would Cheetah the chimp be?

Gumbo.

[Henchster]

He was a great Tarzan, but the “Jungle Call” was actually a recording of Johnny Weissmuller from the earlier films.

And no Jane in the TV show? C’mon!

[Conan the Librarian]

It was on TMC last year. It’s actually a good movie Not a GREAT movie, but, entertaining all the same. I saw it in my Youth and really enjoyed it.

I’d watch it again.

[ArtDodger]

I read many of the Doc Savage stories as a kid. Saw the Ron Ely movie, too.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I still have about 75 of the Doc Savage paperbacks boxed up in the garage, Loved them as a kid.

[Rockingham]

Ron Ely’s classic good looks, perfect, measured diction, and educated manner made him a handsome but improbable Tarzan. Instead of being raised by apes, Ely seemed as if he had shed his tux and taken up with simians for some inexplicable reason.

[HYPOCRACY]

I remember him as a game ahow host when I was a kid. RIP.

[logi_cal869]

[The Duke]

"I read many of the Doc Savage stories as a kid. Saw the Ron Ely movie, too."

Ditto ... in fact I still have my paperbacks here. Sometimes I think, rather whimsically, that I'm living my life for the benefit of some "punk kid" that I'll never actually meet, and who will never appreciate what I've created here.

[scrabblehack]

As I recall, he hosted “Name That Tune” or some knockoff of it.

[wally_bert]

A fun movie.

[sopo]

Johnny Weismuller was, is and always will be Tarzan.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I enjoyed “Doc Savage” as a kid.

Ditto. Kind of like comic books without the pictures. Read every one of them. And yes, I had a huge comic book collection in 1964.

[Does so]

“Johnny Weismuller was, is and always will be Tarzan”...
.

I have no recollection of THIS Tarzan...

I must be very old. :(

But I remember “M’m Sahib”. (pronounced, Mem Saab) from a B&W TV show regarding jungles. “Such is so” came from the same show.

[sopo]

Jungle Jim?