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Gordon Scott

Gordon Scott

Actor · 1926 – 2007 · Portland, Oregon, USA

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).

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  • Movie6.8

    The Movie Orgy

    1968 · 19 votes

  • Movie5.4
  • Movie9.0

    Kolossal - I magnifici Macisti

    Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti

    1977 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Il giorno più corto

    The Shortest Day

    1963 · 30 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Tarzan's Fight for Life

    1958 · 12 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Diario segreto da un carcere femminile

    Women in Cell Block 7

    1973 · 10 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Romolo e Remo

    Romulus and Remus

    1961 · 29 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

    1955 · 12 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Gli uomini dal passo pesante

    The Tramplers

    1965 · 8 votes

  • Movie4.2

    Tarzan and the Trappers

    1960 · 24 votes

  • Movie5.9
  • Movie5.4

    Buffalo Bill, l'eroe del far west

    Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West

    1964 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan

    Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World

    1961 · 10 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Una regina per Cesare

    A Queen for Caesar

    1962 · 10 votes

  • Movie5.4
  • Movie6.0

    Goliath e la schiava ribelle

    The Tyrant of Lydia Against the Son of Hercules

    1963 · 2 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Tarzan the Magnificent

    1960 · 18 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Zorro e i Tre Moschettieri

    Zorro and the Three Musketeers

    1963 · 7 votes

  • Movie4.2

    Il colosso di Roma

    Hero of Rome

    1964 · 11 votes

  • Movie4.3

    Il leone di San Marco

    The Lion of St. Mark

    1963 · 5 votes

  • Movie5.3

    L'eroe di Babilonia

    The Beast of Babylon Against the Son of Hercules

    1963 · 3 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Coriolano eroe senza patria

    Thunder of Battle

    1964 · 3 votes

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