Gordon Scott
ActorView in FlikflixAll Movies & TV Shows
See All- ActionTarzan's Greatest Adventure
- AdventureSamson and the Seven Miracles of the World
- ActionTarzan and the Trappers
- ActionTarzan the Magnificent
- ActionTarzan's Fight for Life
- ActionTarzan and the Lost Safari
- ActionTarzan's Hidden Jungle
- AdventureThe Lion of St. Mark
- ActionGladiator of Rome
- DramaLook Back in Anger
- WesternBuffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West
- ActionZorro and the Three Musketeers
- AdventureThe Conquest of Mycenae
- AdventureDanger!! Death Ray
- ActionHercules and the Princess of Troy
- AdventureThe Tyrant of Lydia Against the Son of Hercules
- ActionHero of Rome
- MusicThe Tramplers
- AdventureGoliath and the Vampires
- CrimeTop Secret
- AdventureHero of Babylon
- ActionKerim, Son of the Sheik
- ActionThunder of Battle
- WesternL'Attaque de Fort Adams (Une aventure de Buffalo Bill)
- ActionDuel of the Titans
- AdventureA Queen for Caesar
- DocumentaryUomini forti
- ComedyThe Pot Carriers
- DocumentaryIn Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross
- DocumentaryInvestigating Tarzan
- CrimeWomen in Cell Block 7
- DocumentaryThe Movie Orgy
- ComedyThe Shortest Day
Recommended People
About
Gordon Scott
Actor
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).
Information
- Place of Birth
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Known Credits
- 33