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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
Filmography
| 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 |
| 1943 | The Underground World · 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 |