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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Discovering the Attitudes and Mindsets of God
- Take a Hike
- Night Shadows (A Jake Sands Mystery)
- Night shadows
- East Beach
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Film & TV
Hereford, Texas, USA
Ronald Pierce "Ron" Ely (born June 21, 1938) was an American actor and novelist born in Hereford, Texas. Ely is best known for having portrayed Tarzan in the 1966 NBC series Tarzan and for playing the lead role in the 1975 film Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze. Ely obtained the role after playing various bit-parts, including an airplane navigator in the 1958 film South Pacific and a guest-starring…
Known for
- Tarzan Revisited — Self2017
- Tarzan: Lord of the Movies — Tarzan (Archive Footage)2017
- Expecting Amish — Elder Miller2014
- Underground Entertainment: The Movie — Ron (archive footage)2011
- Sheena — Bixby2000
- In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross — Self1998
- Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan — Tarzan (archive footage)1996
- Marker1995
- The Hat Squad — Carl Strong1992
- Renegade1992
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1947-02-09
- Active to
- 2025-12-15
americanacountry rockoutlaw countryprogressive countryroots rocksinger-songwriter
Discography
- Joe Ely1977
- Honky Tonk Masquerade1978
- Down on the Drag1979
- Musta Notta Gotta Lotta1981
- Hi-Res1984
- Lord of the Highway1987
- Dig All Night1988
- Love and Danger1993
- Letter to Laredo1995
- Twistin' in the Wind1998
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 11
- Total plays
- 21
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ronald
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hereford
- Place of death
- Los Alamos
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- prose
- Image
- DocSavageRonEly.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
- Work location
- Texas
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- Commons category
- Ron Ely
- date of birth
- 1938-06-21
- start of work period
- 1957-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- date of death
- 2024-09-29
- end of work period
- 2014-00-00
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