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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Writer, Producer, Additional Credits
Born September 2, 1875Died March 19, 1950 (74 years)
His father had been a major in the Union army during the Civil War. Edgar Rice Burroughs attended the Brown School then, due to a diphtheria epidemic, Miss Coolie's Maplehurst School for Girls, then the Harvard School, Phillips Andover and the Michigan Military Academy. He was a mediocre student and flunked his examination for West Point. He worked a variety of jobs all over the country: a cowboy in Idaho, a gold miner in Oregon, a railroad policeman in Utah, a department manager for Sears Roebuck in Chicago. He published "A Princess of Mars" under the title "Under the Moons of Mars" in six parts between February and July of 1912. The same "All-Story Magazine" put out his immediately successful "Tarzan of the Apes" in October of that year. Two years later the hardback book appeared, and on January 27, 1918, the movie opened on Broadway starring Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan. It was one of the first movies to gross over $1,000,000. Burroughs was able to move his family to the San Fernando Valley in 1919, converting a huge estate into Tarzana Ranch. He was in Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 and remained in Hawaii as a war correspondent. Afterward he returned home with a heart condition. On March 19, 1950, alone in his home after reading the Sunday comics in bed, he died. By then he had written 91 novels, 26 of which were about Tarzan. The man whose books have sold hundreds of millions of copies in over thirty languages once said "I write to escape ... to escape poverty".
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Known For
Edgar Rice Burroughs Filmography
| 2025 | The Land That Time Forgot · as Novel |
| 2016 | The Legend of Tarzan · as Novel |
| 2013 | Tarzan · as Novel |
| 2012 | John Carter · as Novel |
| 2009 | Princess of Mars · as Novel |
| 2009 | The Land That Time Forgot · as Novel |
| 2005 | Tarzan II · as Novel |
| 1999 | Tarzan · as Novel |
| 1998 | Tarzan of the Apes · as Novel |
| 1984 | |
| 1977 | The People That Time Forgot · as Novel |
| 1976 | At the Earth's Core · as Novel |
| 1974 | The Land That Time Forgot · as Novel |
| 1941 | Jungle Girl · as Novel |
| 1938 | Tarzan's Revenge · as Novel |
| 1935 | The New Adventures of Tarzan · as Novel |
| 1929 | Tarzan the Tiger · as Novel |
| 1928 | Tarzan the Mighty · as Novel |
| 1927 | Tarzan and the Golden Lion · as Novel |
| 1921 | Adventures of Tarzan · as Novel |
| 1920 | The Revenge of Tarzan · as Novel |
| 1920 | The Son of Tarzan · as Novel |
| 1918 | The Romance of Tarzan · as Novel |
| 1918 | Tarzan of the Apes · as Novel |
| 2021 | Pearl Harbor the World on Fire · as Self - American Writer |
| 2020 | Zenimation (TV Series) · as Characters |
| 2017 | Tarzan and Jane (TV Series) · as Based On The Books By |
| 2003 | Tarzan (TV Series) · as Characters |
| 2002 | Tarzan & Jane · as Characters |
| 2001 | The Legend of Tarzan (TV Series) · as Characters |
| 1999 | Kaj & Andrea (1999) (TV Series) · as Characters Tarzan And Jane |
| 1998 | Tarzan and the Lost City · as Original Story |
| 1996 | Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (TV Series) · as Characters |
| 1996 | Tarzan: The Epic Adventures · as Characters |
| 1991 | Tarzan (1991) (TV Series) · as Characters |
| 1989 | Tarzan in Manhattan · as Characters |
| 1981 | Tarzan the Ape Man · as Characters |
| 1980 | The New Adventures of the Lone Ranger (TV Series) · as Character: Tarzan |
| 1976 | Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (TV Series) · as Based Upon The Character Tarzan Created By |
| 1973 | Tarzan in King Solomon's Mines · as Characters |
| 1972 | Tarzan and the Brown Prince · as Characters |
| 1970 | Tarzan's Deadly Silence · as Characters |
| 1968 | Tarzan and the Jungle Boy · as Characters |
| 1968 | Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army · as Characters |
| 1967 | Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion · as Characters |
| 1967 | Tarzan and the Great River · as Original Story |
| 1966 | Tarzan (1966) (TV Series) · as Character |
| 1966 | Tarzan and the Valley of Gold · as Characters |
| 1963 | Tarzan's Three Challenges · as Characters |
| 1962 | Tarzan Goes to India · as Characters |
| 1960 | Tarzan the Magnificent · as Characters |
| 1960 | Tarzan and the Trappers · as Characters |
| 1959 | Tarzan, the Ape Man · as Characters |
| 1959 | Tarzan's Greatest Adventure · as Characters |
| 1958 | Tarzan's Fight for Life · as Characters |
| 1957 | Tarzan and the Lost Safari · as Characters |
| 1955 | Tarzan's Hidden Jungle · as Characters |
| 1953 | Tarzan and the She-Devil · as Characters |
| 1952 | Tarzan's Savage Fury · as Characters |
| 1951 | Tarzan's Peril · as Characters |
| 1950 | Tarzan and the Slave Girl · as Characters |
| 1949 | Tarzan's Magic Fountain · as Characters |
| 1948 | Tarzan and the Mermaids · as Characters |
| 1947 | Tarzan and the Huntress · as Characters |
| 1946 | Tarzan and the Leopard Woman · as Characters |
| 1945 | Tarzan and the Amazons · as Characters |
| 1943 | Tarzan's Desert Mystery · as Characters |
| 1943 | The Underground World · as Novel "at The Earth's Core" |
| 1943 | Tarzan Triumphs · as Characters |
| 1942 | Tarzan's New York Adventure · as Characters |
| 1941 | Tarzan's Secret Treasure · as Characters |
| 1939 | Tarzan Finds a Son! · as Characters |
| 1937 | Tarzan and the Green Goddess · as Characters |
| 1936 | Tarzan Escapes · as Characters |
| 1936 | The Lion Man · as Short Story |
| 1935 | The New Adventures of Tarzan · as Characters |
| 1934 | Tarzan and His Mate · as Characters |
| 1933 | Tarzan the Fearless · as Story |
| 1932 | Tarzan the Ape Man · as Characters |