Gordon Scott
Known for: Acting
Born: August 2, 1926 in Portland, Oregon, USA - Died: April 29, 2007
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).
Known for
Showing 24 of 35 titles
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
L'Attaque de Fort Adams (Une aventure de Buffalo Bill)
Buffalo Bill
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
Tarzan
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
Tarzan
Tarzan the Magnificent
Tarzan
Danger!! Death Ray
Bart Fargo
Tarzan and the Trappers
Tarzan
Tarzan's Fight for Life
Tarzan
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Tarzan
Romulus and Remus
Remus
Goliath and the Vampires
Maciste (Goliath)
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
Maciste / Samson
Gladiator of Rome
Marcus
The Tramplers
Lon Cordeen
Kerim, Son of the Sheik
Kerim
The Conquest of Mycenae
Glauco / Hercules
Hero of Rome
Mucius
Hercules and the Princess of Troy
Hercules
Tarzan: Lord of the Movies
Host / Tarzan (Archived Footage)
The Lion of St. Mark
Manrico Venier
Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West
Buffalo Bill
Zorro and the Three Musketeers
Zorro
In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross
Self
Hero of Babylon
Nippur