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Gordon Scott

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Gordon Scott (August 3, 1926 – April 30, 2007) 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. [1]

65 relations: A Queen for Caesar, Adventure film, Baltimore, Buffalo Bill, Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West, Cardiovascular disease, Co-production (media), Coriolanus: Hero without a Country, Danger!! Death Ray, Denny Miller, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Eugene, Oregon, Eurospy film, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, Gaius Mucius Scaevola, Gladiator of Rome, Gli uomini dal passo pesante, Goliath and the Rebel Slave, Goliath and the Vampires, Hercules, Hercules and the Princess of Troy, Hero of Rome, Jane Porter (Tarzan), Jock Mahoney, Johnny Weissmuller, Julius Caesar, Kensico Cemetery, Kerim, Son of the Sheik, Lake Temescal, Las Vegas Strip, Lex Barker, List of people from Oregon, Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan, Maryland, Oregon, Peplum (film genre), Portland, Oregon, Romolo e Remo, Romulus, Romulus and Remus, Sean Connery, SLS Las Vegas, Sol Lesser, Spaghetti Western, Spy film, Steve Reeves, Swashbuckler, Tarzan, Tarzan and the Lost Safari, Tarzan and the Trappers, ..., Tarzan in film and other non-print media, Tarzan the Magnificent, Tarzan's Fight for Life, Tarzan's Greatest Adventure, Tarzan's Hidden Jungle, The Beast of Babylon Against the Son of Hercules, The Lion of St. Mark, The Shortest Day, The Washington Post, Top Secret (1967 film), University of Oregon, Valhalla, New York, Vera Miles, Zorro, Zorro and the Three Musketeers. Expand index (15 more) »

A Queen for Caesar

A Queen for Caesar (Una regina per Cesare, Cléopâtre une reine pour César) is a 1962 Italian-French historical drama film set in Egypt in 48 BC.

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Adventure film

Adventure films are a genre of film that typically use their action scenes to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.

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Buffalo Bill

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman.

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Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West

Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West (Buffalo Bill, l'eroe del far west) is a 1964 Italian spaghetti western directed by Mario Costa.

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Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels.

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Co-production (media)

A co-production is a joint venture between two or more different production companies for the purpose of film production, television production, video game development, and so on.

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Coriolanus: Hero without a Country

Coriolano: eroe senza patria (English Translation: Coriolanus: Hero without a Country) is a 1963 Italian historical drama film set in Rome in 493 BC.

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Danger!! Death Ray

Danger!! Death Ray is a 1967 Italian Eurospy secret agent spy film.

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Denny Miller

Denny Scott Miller (born Dennis Linn Miller; April 25, 1934 – September 9, 2014) was an American actor, perhaps best known for his regular role as Duke Shannon on Wagon Train, his guest-starring appearances on Gilligan's Island, and his 1959 film role as Tarzan.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American fiction writer best known for his celebrated and prolific output in the adventure and science-fiction genres.

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Eugene, Oregon

Eugene is a city of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Eurospy film

Eurospy film, or Spaghetti spy film (especially when referring to Italian-produced films in the genre), is a genre of spy films produced across Europe, especially in Italy, France, and Spain, that either imitated or parodied the British James Bond series.

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Gaius Marcius Coriolanus

Gaius Marcius (Caius Martius) Coriolanus was a Roman general who is said to have lived in the 5th century BC.

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Gaius Mucius Scaevola

Gaius Mucius Scaevola was an Ancient Roman youth, possibly mythical, famous for his bravery.

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Gladiator of Rome

Gladiator of Rome (Il gladiatore di Roma) is a 1962 Italian adventure film directed by Mario Costa.

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Gli uomini dal passo pesante

The Tramplers is a 1965 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Albert Band and Mario Sequi based on the novel Guns of North Texas by Will Cook.

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Goliath and the Rebel Slave

Goliath and the Rebel Slave (Goliath e la schiava ribelle, also known as The Tyrant of Lydia Against the Son of Hercules, Gordian the Glorious Avenger and Arrow of the Avenger) is a 1963 Italian peplum film directed by Mario Caiano.

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Goliath and the Vampires

Goliath and the Vampires (Maciste contro il vampiro) is a 1961 Italian ''peplum'' film directed by Sergio Corbucci and Giacomo Gentilomo.

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Hercules

Hercules is a Roman hero and god.

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Hercules and the Princess of Troy

Hercules and the Princess of Troy is a 1965 Italian fantasy film adventure directed by Albert Band.

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Hero of Rome

Il Colosso di Roma (English Translation: Hero of Rome; also known as Arm of Fire) is a 1964 Italian sword and sandal film set in Rome in 508 BC, and depicts the expulsion of the last kings of Rome and the legend of Gaius Mucius Scaevola.

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Jane Porter (Tarzan)

Jane Porter (later Jane Clayton, Countess of Greystoke) is a major fictional character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels and in adaptations of the saga to other media, particularly film.

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Jock Mahoney

Jock Mahoney (born Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney, February 7, 1919 – December 14, 1989) was an American actor and stuntman.

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Johnny Weissmuller

Johnny Weissmuller (2 June 190420 January 1984) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American competition swimmer and actor, best known for playing Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s and for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century.

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Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar (12 or 13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), known by his cognomen Julius Caesar, was a Roman politician and military general who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.

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Kensico Cemetery

Kensico Cemetery, located in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York was founded in 1889, when many New York City cemeteries were becoming full, and rural cemeteries were being created near the railroads that served the city.

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Kerim, Son of the Sheik

Kerim, Son of the Sheik (Il figlio dello sceicco, Le retour du fils du sheik, also known just as Son of the Sheik) is a 1962 Italian-French adventure film directed by Mario Costa and starring Gordon Scott.

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Lake Temescal

Lake Temescal is a small reservoir in the Oakland Hills, in northeastern Oakland, California.

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Las Vegas Strip

The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of South Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos.

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Lex Barker

Alexander Crichlow "Lex" Barker Jr. (May 8, 1919 – May 11, 1973) was an American actor best known for playing Tarzan of the Apes and leading characters from Karl May's novels.

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List of people from Oregon

This is a list of notable people associated with the U.S. state of Oregon through either birth and/or residence.

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Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan

Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan also known as Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World and Maciste at the Court of the Great Khan is a 1961 international co-production starring Gordon Scott.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.

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Peplum (film genre)

The peplum film (pepla plural), also known as sword-and-sandal, is a genre of largely Italian-made historical or Biblical epics (costume dramas) that dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by Eurospy films and Spaghetti Westerns.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

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Romolo e Remo

Romolo e Remo (Romulus and Remuis) aka Duel of the Titans) is a 1961 peplum directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, and Virna Lisi. The film is about twin brothers who revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city, to be known as Rome. This is based on the legend of Romulus and Remus.

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Romulus

Romulus was the legendary founder and first king of Rome.

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Romulus and Remus

In Roman mythology, Romulus and Remus are twin brothers, whose story tells the events that led to the founding of the city of Rome and the Roman Kingdom by Romulus.

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Sean Connery

Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award).

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SLS Las Vegas

The SLS Hotel & Casino Las Vegas (formerly Sahara Hotel and Casino) is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada.

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Sol Lesser

Sol Lesser (February 17, 1890 – September 19, 1980) was an American film producer.

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Spaghetti Western

Spaghetti Western, also known as Italian Western or Macaroni Western (primarily in Japan), is a broad subgenre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success.

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Spy film

The spy film genre deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way (such as the adaptations of John le Carré) or as a basis for fantasy (such as many James Bond films).

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Steve Reeves

Stephen Lester "Steve" Reeves (January 21, 1926 – May 1, 2000) was an American professional bodybuilder, actor, and philanthropist.

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Swashbuckler

A swashbuckler is a heroic archetype in European adventure literature that is typified by the use of a sword, acrobatics and chivalric ideals.

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Tarzan

Tarzan (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer.

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Tarzan and the Lost Safari

Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957) is an action adventure film featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan and starring Gordon Scott, Robert Beatty, Yolande Donlan and Betta St. John.

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Tarzan and the Trappers

Tarzan and the Trappers (1958) is an action adventure film featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan and starring Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorensen and Lesley Bradley.

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Tarzan in film and other non-print media

Tarzan, a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in twenty-three sequels.

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Tarzan the Magnificent

Tarzan the Magnificent is a 1960 British film, the follow-up to Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959).

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Tarzan's Fight for Life

Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958) is an action adventure film featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan and starring Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorensen, Jil Jarmyn, and Cheeta the chimpanzee.

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Tarzan's Greatest Adventure

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure is a 1959 adventure film directed by John Guillermin, produced by Sy Weintraub and Harvey Hayutin, and written by Les Crutchfield, based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle is a 1955 black-and-white movie from RKO Pictures starring Gordon Scott in his first film as Tarzan, taking over the role from Lex Barker, who had in turn followed Johnny Weissmuller in the series.

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The Beast of Babylon Against the Son of Hercules

The Beast of Babylon Against the Son of Hercules (L'eroe di Babilonia, Héros de Babylone, also known as Heroes of Babylon, Hero of Babylon and Goliath, King of Slaves) is a 1963 Italian-French peplum film written and directed by Siro Marcellini and starring Gordon Scott.

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The Lion of St. Mark

Il Leone di San Marco, internationally released as The Lion of St.

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The Shortest Day

The Shortest Day (Il giorno più corto) is a 1962 Italian comedy film.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Top Secret (1967 film)

Top Secret (Segretissimo, Secretísimo) is a 1967 Italian-Spanish Eurospy film directed by Fernando Cerchio and starring Gordon Scott.

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University of Oregon

The University of Oregon (also referred to as UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public flagship research university in Eugene, Oregon.

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Valhalla, New York

Valhalla is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located within the town of Mount Pleasant, in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the New York City metropolitan area.

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Vera Miles

Vera June Miles (née Ralston, born August 23, 1929) is a retired American actress who worked closely with Alfred Hitchcock, most notably as Lila Crane in the classic 1960 film Psycho, reprising the role in the 1983 sequel Psycho II.

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Zorro

Zorro (Spanish for "Fox") is a fictional character created in 1919 by American pulp writer Johnston McCulley, and appearing in works set in the Pueblo of Los Angeles during the era of Spanish California (1769–1821).

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Zorro and the Three Musketeers

Zorro and the Three Musketeers (Zorro e i tre moschettieri, also known as Mask of the Musketeers and Zorro vs. the Three Musketeers) is a 1963 Italian comedy-adventure film directed by Luigi Capuano and starring Gordon Scott.

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