Posted on 10/23/2024 3:03:00 PM PDT by DFG
Ron Ely, the actor best known for his role on the TV series “Tarzan” has died.
The star passed away at the age of 86. His daughter, Kirsten Ely, announced the news on Instagram. She confirmed her father’s death to Fox News Digital.
“The world has lost one of the greatest men it has ever known – and I have lost my dad,” Kirsten shared in a statement posted on Instagram Wednesday. “My father was someone that people called a hero. He was an actor, writer, coach, mentor, family man and leader. He created a powerful wave of positive influence wherever he went.”
“The impact he had on others is something that I have never witnessed in any other person – there was something truly magical about him. This is how the world knew him. I knew him as my dad – and what a heaven sent honor that has been. To me, he hung the moon.”
“My father’s life story was one of relentless perseverance, unending dedication to his family and friends, courage to do what was right, and willing sacrifice to facilitate the dreams of those he loved,” Kirsten added. “It was also a story of joy and love – something everyone close to him had the privilege of experiencing. Once you knew my father’s love, the world grew to be a brighter and more meaningful place.”
“I am doing my best to walk this path of loss with the strength and grace that I know he would want for me,” she continued. “I am picking up the pieces of my heart that feel like pieces of him – and cementing those firmly in place before I pick up the rest of the broken bits.
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It’s especially sad that his son killed the mother then was subsequently killed by the responding police.
Maybe “Jungle Jim”—maybe on YouTube? (Done a few searches before giving up).
I’d recognize the specific “lingo” as described previously—impressed into my young memory. (I was about the same age).
The main character was an “Anglo” boy. (A “WASP”, if you will).
His sidekick was a knowledgeable Indian boy about the same age: Transport was mostly by elephant.
Maybe that show was followed by “Space Cadet”. All in black and white, of course.
About 1953...
I thought he did game shows (as a host).
There are quite a few on Youtube search for me. The fifth one down shows your friend Kassem right up front, the Johnny Weissmuller doing something that would have taken Ron Ely out long before age 86 had he tried ithttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=johnny+weismuller+Jungle+Jim
Not “Jungle Jim”, but close.
Weissmuller’s film son, “Skipper”, also brings back no recollections.
Probably half hour shows on Saturdays, and maybe only a few seasons?
Johnny also invented and performed the famous yell, often requested and performed by Carol Burnett.
oh you mean Maya, but it was much later. It had Jay North the aged out TV Dennis the Menace as its star.
and often imitated but never duplicated by all us fifties kids
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