Ron Ely with The Supremes (Cindy Birdsong, Diana Ross, Mary Wilson) during the making of "Tarzan"
				
				
						 Caption: Ron Ely with The Supremes (Cindy Birdsong, Diana Ross, Mary Wilson) during the making of "Tarzan"
																																				
						Actor, Director
						Born: June 21, 1938
						Star sign: Cancer
						Height: 6' 4½" (1.94 m)
						Known for: Tarzan (1966), Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975), South Pacific (1958), Der Schrei der schwarzen Wölfe (1972)
						Source: IMDB
						The 15th screen Tarzan (if you don't count Gordon Griffith) was to have played a Tarzan impersonator in a projected Mike Henry television show, which never materialized. He had been tested fourteen months earlier when Henry got the part. Prior to Tarzan, he had played only bit parts in movies, e.g., the copilot in South Pacific (1958) and had ...