Edgar Rice Burroughs Filmography

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Tarzan

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Brian Blessed, Glenn Close, Minnie Driver, Tony Goldwyn, Nigel Hawthorne

Synopsis: Author Edgar Rice Burroughs once suggested that animation would be the ideal medium to bring his Tarzan to the screen, and 81 years after the first film about the famous ape-man, Disney brings us the first full-length animated film starring the King of the Jungle. After a disaster at sea causes Read More

6/18/99
Tarzan and the Lost City

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Casper Van Dien, Jane March, Steven Waddington, Winston Ntshona, Rapulana Seiphemo

Synopsis: Carl Schenkel directed this Tarzan film "based on the stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs." In England of 1913, Tarzan (Casper Van Dien) is due to marry Jane (Jane March), but he suddenly chooses to return to the jungle to prevent villainous explorer Nigel Ravens (Steve Waddington) from burning and Read More

4/24/98
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, James Fox, Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell

Synopsis: Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a reverent retelling of the Edgar Rice Burroughs original, with a 1980s-sensibilities slant. Shipwrecked on the coast of Africa, Lord Jack Clayton (Paul Geoffrey) and his pregnant wife Lady Alice (Cheryl Campbell) attempt to survive in the Read More

1984
Tarzan, the Ape Man

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Bo Derek, Richard Harris, John Phillip Law, Miles O'Keeffe, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Akushula Selayah

Synopsis: John Derek directed this 1981 vanity production of the Tarzan tale as a bon-bon for his wife Bo Derek. The Bo Derek version answers any questions viewers may have had concerning Tarzan and Jane's sex life. The film begins as Jane (Bo Derek)'s father Parker (Richard Harris) heads to the African Read More

1981
The People That Time Forgot

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Patrick Wayne, Doug McClure, Sarah Douglas, Dana Gillespie, Thorley Walters

Synopsis: In this fantasy adventure tale based on a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ben McBride (Patrick Wayne) sets out to find Bowen Tyler (Doug McClure), a fellow explorer who was lost during an expedition to the island of Caprone, a tropical oasis in the midst of the arctic. McBride arrives at Caprone to Read More

1977
At the Earth's Core

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro, Cy Grant, Godfrey James

Synopsis: This is the second sci-fi adventure based on a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first being 1975's The Land That Time Forgot. At The Earth's Core stars Doug McClure as explorer David Innes and Peter Cushing as professor Abner Perry, whose experimental "iron core" drill goes out of control and Read More

1976
The Land That Time Forgot

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Keith Barron, Anthony Ainley

Synopsis: In this low budget fantasy adventure from Britain, based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1918 science fiction novel, a German submarine holding American prisoners of war during World War I, veers off course. Lost at sea, the submarine empties its fuel supply and runs aground on an uncharted island in the Read More

1975
Jungle Girl [Serial]

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Frances Gifford, Tom Neal, Trevor Bardette, Gerald Mohr, Eddie Acuff

Synopsis: Unavailable for decades, this 15-chapter serial from Republic Pictures was finally re-released on video tape in the late 1990s. Based on a story by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Girl featured former Paramount starlet Frances Gifford as Nyoka, a white girl raised by her father, Dr. Read More

1941
Tarzan and the Green Goddess

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Herman Brix, Ula Holt, Frank Baker, Dale Walsh, Lewis Sargent, Don Costello

Synopsis: The creator of the famous jungle lord, Edgar Rice Burrough's and his production company are behind this Tarzan serial. For added realism, he had it filmed on location in the Guatemalan jungles where the cast and crew really suffered for their art amidst the heat, humidity, poisonous snakes and Read More

1938
The New Adventures of Tarzan [Serial]

Crew: Book Author, Producer

Actors: Herman Brix, Ula Holt, Frank Baker, Dale Walsh, Harry Ernest

Synopsis: Unhappy with the Tarzan pictures being made in Hollywood, author Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of the "Lord of the Jungle," set up his own production company, Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises. The only Tarzan opus to emerge from this short-lived enterprise was the 12-chapter serial (and simultaneously Read More

1935
Tarzan, the Ape Man

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, C. Aubrey Smith, Doris Lloyd, Forrester Harvey

Synopsis: Tarzan, The Ape Man was not only MGM's inaugural "Tarzan" film, but also the first to star former Olympic swimming champ Johnny Weissmuller as The Lord of the Jungle (strange but true: one of the pre-Weissmuller "Tarzan" candidates was Clark Gable!) Utilizing scads of stock footage from MGM's Trader Horn Read More

1932
Tarzan the Tiger [Serial]

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In the opener of Universal's 15-chapter serial Tarzan the Tiger, Tarzan, aka Lord Greystoke (Frank Merrill), returns to Africa with his bride, Lady Jane (Natalie Kingston), hoping to locate the famous Jewels of Opar and thus save the Greystoke estate in England. At their plantation, the noble Read More

1929
The Adventures of Tarzan

Crew: Book Author

Actors: George Momberg, Percy Pembroke

Synopsis: Produced by the low-budget Weiss brothers, Leonard and Louis, The Adventures of Tarzan was the first of no less than five jungle serials to be produced in the span of only ten months and by far the most popular. Starring burly Elmo Lincoln, and 16-year-old Louise Lorraine as Jane, the 15-chapter Read More

1921
The Oakdale Affair

Crew: Book Author

1919
The Lad and the Lion

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Frank Clark, Al Filson, Cecil Holland, Charles Le Moyne, Will Machin

Synopsis: When William Bankinton (Will Machin) is shipwrecked, his loses his memory. He is able to make his way in the wilds with the help of a lion. Sheik Ali-Es Hadji (Al W. Filson) lives nearby, and Bankinton meets and falls in love with his daughter, Nakkla (Vivian Reed). But Nakkla is being pursued by Read More

1917