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Gordon Scott

1926-08-03 Portland, Oregon, USA

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Biografia

Gordon Scott was an American film and television actor known for his portrayal of the fictional character Tarzan in five films (and one compilation of three made-as-a-pilot television episodes) of the Tarzan film series from 1955 to 1960. Gordon Scott was the eleventh Tarzan, starting with Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle. He was "discovered" poolside, and offered "a seven-year contract, a loin cloth, and a new last name." "Due in part to his muscular frame and 6-foot-3-inch [1.91-metre] height, he was quickly signed to replace Lex Barker as Tarzan" by producer Sol Lesser. Lesser had Gordon change his name because "Werschkul" sounded too much like "Weismueller". Scott's Tarzan movies ranged from rather cheap re-edited television pilots to large-scale action films with high-production values shot on location in Africa. In his early Tarzan films, he played the character as unworldly and inarticulate, in the mold of Johnny Weissmuller, an earlier Tarzan portrayer. In Scott's later films, after a change in producers, he played a Tarzan who was educated and spoke perfect English, as in the original Edgar Rice Burroughs novels. Scott was the only actor to play Tarzan in both styles. Fearing he would become typecast as Tarzan, Scott moved to Italy and became a popular star in epics of the péplum genre (known in the United States as sword-and-sandal), featuring handsome bodybuilders as various characters from Greek and Roman myth. Scott was a friend of Steve Reeves, and collaborated with him as Remus to Reeves's Romulus in Duel of the Titans. Scott also played Hercules in a couple of international co-productions during the mid-1960s. As the péplum genre faded, Scott starred in spaghetti westerns and Eurospy films. His final film appearance was in The Tramplers (filmed in 1966; released in the United States in 1968).

Películas

Tarzan: Lord of the Movies Host / Tarzan (Archived Footage) 2017-01-01
In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross Self 1998-12-22
Investigating Tarzan Self 1997-01-01
Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan Tarzan (archive footage) 1996-06-08
Diario segreto da un carcere femminile (Archive Footage) 1973-07-05
The Movie Orgy Self (archive footage) 1968-01-01
Segretissimo John Sutton 1967-05-13
Il raggio infernale Bart Fargo 1967-01-28
Gli uomini dal passo pesante Lon Cordeen 1965-12-31
Hercules and the Princess of Troy Hercules 1965-03-08
L'Attaque de Fort Adams (Une aventure de Buffalo Bill) Buffalo Bill 1965-02-17
Coriolano eroe senza patria Coriolanus 1964-08-19
Il colosso di Roma Mucius 1964-04-22
Buffalo Bill, l'eroe del far west Buffalo Bill 1964-11-19
Il giorno più corto Soldato (uncredited) 1963-02-14
Zorro e i Tre Moschettieri Zorro 1963-02-14
Il leone di San Marco Manrico Venier 1963-11-21
L'eroe di Babilonia Nippur 1963-08-22
Goliath e la schiava ribelle Goliath / Gordian 1963-09-04
Ercole contro Moloch Glauco / Hercules 1963-04-22
Il figlio dello sceicco Kerim 1962-06-29
Una regina per Cesare Julius Caesar 1962-12-22
Il gladiatore di Roma Marcus 1962-09-13
Romolo e Remo Remus 1961-12-06
Maciste contro il vampiro Maciste (Goliath) 1961-08-24
Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan Maciste / Samson 1961-10-31
Tarzan the Magnificent Tarzan 1960-07-20
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure Tarzan 1959-07-08
Tarzan's Fight for Life Tarzan 1958-08-15
Tarzan and the Trappers Tarzan 1958-01-01
Tarzan and the Lost Safari Tarzan 1957-04-12
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle Tarzan 1955-02-16