Ron Ely
Ron Ely ( born June 21, 1938 in Hereford, Texas; actually Ronald Pierce Ely ) is an American actor.
Life
Ely began with the film work in the 1950s, but has been filled by the end of the 1960s only in small roles. The success began when Ely was entrusted with the role of Tarzan. He was thus the 15th Tarzan in film history and played this role in the very popular also in Germany Tarzan television series for 57 episodes, whose double episodes were evaluated as feature films. Furthermore, success in Germany he had in 1972 with the Italo -Western- Comedy 100 fists and an Our Father. The film was in Germany but not because of its class a success, but rather because of that popularity Ely and his fellow actress Uschi Glas, who starred in this film as the female lead. In 1972 Ely in a readers' poll the Golden Bravo Otto the German youth magazine BRAVO.
1975 Ely was the star of the recent film production of producer George Pal, Doc Savage - The Man of Bronze, the only previously made film adaptation of the famous superhero book series. In the next few years, however, subsided, the success of Ron Ely and he was rarely seen in movies, but advocated increasingly as a guest in several television series, so in Love Boat, Matt Houston, Wonder Woman, Hotel, Fantasy Iceland, Superboy ( as an adult Superman ) or Renegade - Merciless hunting. In the series Seahunt (1987 ) Ely played the role of Mike Nelson, which alludes to the eponymous character in the television series Sea Hunt (1958 ) and was as portrayed by Lloyd Bridges. In a fresh new edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs stories under the title Tarzán (1992), Ely played again with in a sequence, but this time not more than title decisive character, but only in a supporting role as Gordon Shaw.
Mid -1990s had some success as a writer Ely with a short-lived mystery series about the detective Jake Sands in the novels "Night Shadows" and " East Beach ". Another novel Elys has not been published because he refused to cut the amount of 1250 pages to a " tolerable " level. From his " Jake Sands " novels, Ely has also recorded abridged audio book readings.