Ron Ely

Actor

Born: June 21, 1938
Died: September 29, 2024 (age 86)
From: Hereford, Texas, USA

Ronald Pierce "Ron" Ely (born June 21, 1938) was 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…

Filmography (21)

Tarzan Revisited (2017)
Self
Tarzan: Lord of the Movies (2017)
Tarzan (Archive Footage)
Expecting Amish (2014)
Elder Miller
Underground Entertainment: The Movie (2011)
Ron (archive footage)
In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross (1998)
Self
Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan (1996)
Tarzan (archive footage)
Slavers (1978)
Steven Hamilton
MitGift (1976)
Kurt
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975)
Clark 'Doc' Savage Jr.
Alleluja & Sartana Are Sons... Sons of God (1972)
Hallelujah
Cry of the Black Wolves (1972)
Bill Robinson
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones (1971)
Tarzan
Tarzan's Deadly Silence (1970)
Tarzan
Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army (1968)
Tarzan
The Mountains of the Moon (1967)
Tarzan
Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion (1967)
Tarzan
Once Before I Die (1966)
Soldier
The Night of the Grizzly (1966)
Ted Curry
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1959)
Wilbur Fielding
The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958)
Deputy Jim Dyer
South Pacific (1958)
Navigator