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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I enjoyed “Doc Savage” as a kid.
Rest In Peace, Ron.
If Tarzan was a cajun and jane was a cajun, what would Cheetah the chimp be?
Gumbo.
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!
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.
I read many of the Doc Savage stories as a kid. Saw the Ron Ely movie, too.
I still have about 75 of the Doc Savage paperbacks boxed up in the garage, Loved them as a kid.
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.
I remember him as a game ahow host when I was a kid. RIP.
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.
As I recall, he hosted “Name That Tune” or some knockoff of it.
A fun movie.
Johnny Weismuller was, is and always will be Tarzan.
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.
“Johnny Weismuller was, is and always will be Tarzan”...
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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.
Jungle Jim?
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