Gordon Scott
Actor/Actriz
35
Movies
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TV Shows
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).
As Actor/Actress
The Steve Allen Show
Self
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
Romolo e Remo
Remus
Buffalo Bill, l'eroe del far west
Buffalo Bill
Segretissimo
John Sutton
Ercole contro Moloch
Glauco / Hercules
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
Tarzan
Maciste contro il vampiro
Maciste (Goliath)
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
Tarzan
Il giorno più corto
Soldato (uncredited)
Tarzán en la selva secreta
Tarzan
Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan
Maciste / Samson
Tarzan the Magnificent
Tarzan
Tarzan: Lord of the Movies
Host / Tarzan (Archived Footage)
Il leone di San Marco
Manrico Venier
Tarzán lucha por su vida
Tarzan
Diario segreto da un carcere femminile
(Archive Footage)
Hercules and the Princess of Troy
Hercules
Gli uomini dal passo pesante
Lon Cordeen
Una regina per Cesare
Julius Caesar
Tarzan and the Trappers
Tarzan
Zorro e i Tre Moschettieri
Zorro
Il figlio dello sceicco
Kerim
Il gladiatore di Roma
Marcus
Kolossal - I magnifici Macisti
Coriolano eroe senza patria
Coriolanus
Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan
Tarzan (archive footage)
Il colosso di Roma
Mucius
Investigating Tarzan
Self
Goliath e la schiava ribelle
Goliath / Gordian