Not written until barely two years later. For Minority World Tarzan actors.
Brunettes and Titians
Elmo Lincoln: With his faint blue eyes, chubby build and plain brown hair, Elmo Lincoln was the first major adult Tarzan actor onscreen.
Gene Pollar: Sky blue eyed nerdy brunette Gene Pollar played Tarzan only once.
Percy Dempsey Tabler: Aka the sky blue eyed, titian brown haired Perce Dempsey Tabler, he was also the first Tarzan actor shown with a typical dad body.
James Pierce: Although a bulky natural blonde himself, James was both the first official Tarzan voice actor and likely the heaviest ever Tarzan actor from a minority world Anglophone country.
Frank Merrill: as one of the few brown eyed Tarzan actors from the minority world, hunky old Frank, with his shaggy golden brown hair, likely inspired his somewhat lesser known cartoon counterpart in Three’s a Crowd, a Merrie Melodies short.
Johnny Weissmuller: Fellow brown eyed Johnny was the most popular Tarzan actor in black and white films, not only due to his athletic ability, but also because of his swarthy chocolate hair. Even though his skin colour was usually in a faint mix of peach, olive and salmon, he’s likely one of the first to be of a mixed ethnic background, as he was a Roman Catholic man with both Banat Swabian and Romanian Ashkenazi Jewish roots.
Herman Brix (aka Bruce Bennett): As he lived for nearly a hundred and one years, he’s likely the longest lived cool blue eyed, titian haired Tarzan actor in history.
Glenn Morris: Even though the dark brown eyed Glenn Morris played Tarzan only once, he was clearly an odd exception amongst the Tarzan actors, as his hair was nearly always of a brownish raven colour.
Lamont Johnson: Soulfully blue eyed, brownish blonde Lamont Johnson was the only official Tarzan voice actor of the nineteen fifties, until the much better Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle show began to air decades later.
Gordon Scott: Partly due to strongly disliking his initial Tarzan portrayal, Gordon Scott was both the second last brunette Tarzan actor and the second to last official brown eyed Tarzan actor.
Mike Henry: Since Mike Henry was both the last official brunette Tarzan actor till the 21st Century and the heaviest known brown eyed Tarzan actor from a minority world Anglophone country, he also would likely inspire the Buscema Brothers’ ballsy badass Tarzan designs.
Steve Hawkes (he was another natural blonde): Steve Hawkes, aka Steve Šipek, played Tarzan unofficially for two films. Even though his eyes were still in a bright shade of grey blue, his hair was heavily dyed in a darker brown shade than that of Ron Ely, who preceded him.
Richard Yesteran: Brown eyed, ruddy brunette Richard Yesteran, aka Jose Luis Ayestaran, was drugged out when he unofficially played Tarzan for two films.
Christopher Lambert: As a formerly titian haired beauty, who’s also one of the few Tarzan actors with uncommon coloured eyes in the minority world (a pair of brownish green and greyish blue partial hazels in this case), he has likely done his best to portray Tarzan as a sympathetic anti hero in the super boring Greystoke.
Joe Lara: Despite being a lot better than Johnny Weissmuller in so many qualitative ways, it’s a shame that Joe died in a cult ridden plane crash along with his notorious second wife Gwen Shamblin. Even though he was a natural blonde with brightly cool grey eyes, his hair was frequently dyed in a much darker colour for his two Tarzan stints. Thus, it was soiled to the point of becoming a dark brown curl for the rest of his life.
Casper Van Dien: Titian haired, green eyed Casper Van Dien has largely left the world of acting, which was when the so bad its good Tarzan and the Lost City flopped too hard in cinemas.
Michael T. Weiss: Cool old Michael T Weiss is the first official Tarzan voice actor with both brown hair and brown eyes.
Giles Panton: Pretty much much the last known brunette actor to play Tarzan.
Typical Drab Blondes
Denny Miller: While not the first known blonde to play Tarzan, he’s still the first and only drab blonde actor to play Tarzan on film until Miles O’Keeffe stole the show.
Robert Ridgely: Drab blonde haired Robert was the first official Tarzan voice actor in history.
Miles O’Keeffe: Being a drab titian blonde mix, Miles is the first and only known light haired Deep Southern Tarzan actor in the films, who also is the heaviest living Tarzan actor from a minority world Anglophone country.
Wolf Larson: the retired German born Canadian actor Wolf Larson was the only official drab blonde Tarzan actor in television history, until the boring WB Tarzan shit show was made and destroyed in a single year.
Travis Fimmel: Travis is a cool grey eyed Aussie dude who thankfully has gained fame as a talent in his own right. One of his awkward early outings has had him as the last known drab blonde actor to officially play Tarzan onscreen, which was years until his own hair has currently gained its golden brownish hue.
Platinum and Ash Blondes
Buster Crabbe: Bluish grey eyed Buster was an oddity amongst Tarzan actors, in which his hair colour, before he greyed out, was an unlikely sign of things to come. Well, he’s a platinum blonde Cool Guy at his prime, who would likely inspire the blonde haired explorer stereotype in its definitive glory.
Redheads
Kellan Lutz: Another rarity on the list is auburn haired Kellan, who also has golden brownish amber-hazel eyes.
Strawberry Blondes
Lex Barker: Lex was likely the first and only known official blonde actor to play Tarzan onscreen, up until Jock Mahoney’s Tarzan duology came along. He’s also the first official strawberry blonde actor to play Tarzan, by the way.
Jock Mahoney: Jock was the schlumpiest actor who officially played Tarzan onscreen. As he was also the second to last official strawberry blonde Tarzan actor until the 2010s happened, he only did it for two films anyway.
Ron Ely: Until he greyed out decades later, Ron dyed his hair in a considerably darker colour, but that was mainly for the beginning of his stint as the first official Tarzan actor in television history. It otherwise showed its actual blondness from season 2 onwards.
Tony Goldwyn: The most famous of living Tarzan actors and voice actors, the grey blue eyed sex symbol Tony Goldwyn, with his crafty Southern Polish Jewish roots, has given his soulfully deep voice to what’s now the most popular Tarzan variant of all time.
Alexander Skarsgard: As a ruddy blonde and greyish green eyed talent in his own right, Alexander Skarsgard is also the sultriest living actor to officially play Tarzan onscreen.
The most common category turns out to be simply for both the Brunettes and Titians, which is partly due to the fact that they often complement each other, thus being hard to distinguish when not seen up close.
