Elmo Lincoln
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Elmo Lincoln (born February 6, 1889 in Rochester, Indiana – died June 27, 1952 in Los Angeles) was an American film actor.
Born Otto Elmo Linkenhelt, the barrel-chested actor is best known in his silent movie role as the first person to star as Tarzan (as an adult) (Gordon Griffith played him as a child in the same movie).
Lincoln died of a heart attack in 1952 and was interred in the Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7042 Hollywood Boulevard.
In 2001, his daughter Marci'a Lincoln Rudolph told his story in her book, My Father, Elmo Lincoln: The Original Tarzan (ISBN 1-58690-000-5).
[edit] Selected filmography
- 1913: The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
- 1913: Judith of Bethulia
- 1914: Brute Force
- 1915: Buckshot John
- 1915: Birth of a Nation
- 1915: The Slave Girl
- 1916: The Fatal Glass of Beer
- 1916: Intolerance
- 1916: Hoodoo Ann
- 1917: Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
- 1918: Tarzan of the Apes
- 1918: The Kaiser / The Beast of Berlin
- 1918: Romance of Tarzan
- 1918: Treasure Island
- 1918: The Greatest Thing in Life
- 1919: The Fall of Babylon (re-edited from Intolerance)
- 1919: Elmo the Mighty
- 1920: The Flaming Disc
- 1921: Elmo the Fearless
- 1921: Adventures of Tarzan
- 1922: Quincy Adams Sawyer
- 1927: King of the Jungle
- 1939: Union Pacific
- 1939: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- 1939: Colorado Sunset
- 1939: Wyoming Outlaw
- 1942: Tarzan's New York Adventure
- 1944: When the Lights Go on Again
- 1945: The Man Who Walked Alone
- 1947: Rolling Home
- 1947: A Double Life
- 1948: Tap Roots
- 1949: Tarzan's Magic Fountain
- 1951: Hollywood Story
- 1952: Carrie
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| Preceded by (originator) |
Actors to portray Tarzan 1918-1921 |
Succeeded by Gene Pollar |
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