Elmo Lincoln
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About
He played Tarzan in the 1918 rendition of Tarzan of the Apes, The Romance of Tarzan, and The Adventures of Tarzan. In 1952, he appeared in Carrie.
Before Fame
The first man chosen to play Tarzan walked off the set to enlist in WWI.
Trivia
Director D.W. Griffith cast him as a longshoreman in The Battle of Elderbush Gulch.
Family Life
He was born in Rochester, Indiana, the son of an Arkansas lawman.
Associated With
Edgar Rice Burroughs was not initially pleased with Lincoln as Tarzan because he was too short, too ungainly, and worst of all, afraid of heights.
