
Gordon Scott
Known for ActingBorn 1926-08-03Died 2007-04-30Portland, Oregon, USA
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).Read more
Movies & web series
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Investigating Tarzan
1997 · Movie
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Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977 · Movie
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Top Secret
1967 · Movie
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The Movie Orgy
1968 · Movie
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Look Back in Anger
1959 · Movie
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The Pot Carriers
1962 · Movie
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The Tramplers
1965 · Movie
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Goliath and the Vampires
1961 · Movie
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Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
1961 · Movie
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The Shortest Day
1963 · Movie
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The Steve Allen Show
1956 · Series
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Zorro and the Three Musketeers
1963 · Movie
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The Tyrant of Lydia Against the Son of Hercules
1963 · Movie
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Kerim, Son of the Sheik
1962 · Movie
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Hercules and the Princess of Troy
1965 · Movie
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Tarzan the Magnificent
1960 · Movie
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Gladiator of Rome
1962 · Movie
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Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West
1964 · Movie
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Tarzan and the Lost Safari
1957 · Movie
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A Queen for Caesar
1962 · Movie
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Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
1959 · Movie
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Thunder of Battle
1964 · Movie
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Hero of Babylon
1963 · Movie
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Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955 · Movie
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Romulus and Remus
1961 · Movie
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Women in Cell Block 7
1973 · Movie
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Tarzan's Fight for Life
1958 · Movie
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The Lion of St. Mark
1963 · Movie
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Hero of Rome
1964 · Movie
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Tarzan and the Trappers
1958 · Movie
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The Conquest of Mycenae
1963 · Movie
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Danger!! Death Ray
1967 · Movie

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Tarzan: Lord of the Movies
2017 · Movie

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In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross
1998 · Movie

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Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan
1996 · Movie

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L'Attaque de Fort Adams (Une aventure de Buffalo Bill)
1965 · Movie