Category:Tarzan (film subject)

Tarzan / George of the Jungle / Bomba the Jungle Boy (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1910), novel

See also Mowgli -- Jungle Jim -- Congo Bill -- Ramar of the Jungle

Overview

A feral child (or wild child) is a young individual who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and so has had little or no experience of human care, behavior, or human language. They are sometimes the subjects of folklore and legends, typically portrayed as having been raised by animals. There are several confirmed cases and at least two movies dealing with them: L’enfant sauvage (Truffaut, 1970), and Entrelobos (Olivares, 2010).

Tarzan is a fictional character of an English child raised by apes in the African jungle. Bomba the Jungle Boy and George of the Jungle are variations of the same characters.

Mowgli also is a fictional character of a native boy raised by wolves in the Asian jungle. He was created by Kipling.

There are then many movies dealing with hunters and adventures who have learned to live in the jungle.

Another variant are stories of survival of civilized individuals lost in the wilderness.

Tarzan movies

Year	Genre	Film title	Tarzan	Jane	Child	Notes
1918	film	Tarzan of the Apes	Elmo Lincoln (I)	Enid Markey	Gordon Griffith (young Tarzan)	Based on the first part of the novel Tarzan of the Apes
1918	film	The Romance of Tarzan <lost>	Elmo Lincoln (II)	Enid Markey	Gordon Griffith (young Tarzan)	LOST - Based on the second part of the novel Tarzan of the Apes
1920	serial	The Son of Tarzan	Kamuela C. Searle (Korak, Tarzan's son)	Manilla Martan (Meriem)	Gordon Griffith (young Korak) Mae Giraci (young Meriem)	Based on the novel The Son of Tarzan - Serial in 15 episodes.
1920	film	The Revenge of Tarzan	Gene Pollar	Karla Schramm	---	Based on the first part of the novel The Return of Tarzan
1921	serial	The Adventures of Tarzan	Elmo Lincoln (III)	Louise Lorraine	Gordon Griffith (young Tarzan)	Based on the second part of the novel The Return of Tarzan
1927	film	Tarzan and the Golden Lion <film>	James Pierce	Dorothy Dunbar	---	Based on the novel Tarzan and the Golden Lion
1928	serial	Tarzan the Mighty	Frank Merrill (I)	[[]]		Though nominally based on Jungle Tales of Tarzan, it is mostly an original story and includes only a few scenes and themes from that collection of short stories
1929	serial	Tarzan the Tiger	Frank Merrill (II)	[[]]		Based on the novel Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Filmed as a silent but partially dubbed to become the first Tarzan sound film; Last silent serial
1932	film	Tarzan the Ape Man	Johnny Weissmuller (I)	Maureen O'Sullivan (I)	---	First MGM film
1934	film	Tarzan and His Mate	Johnny Weissmuller (II)	Maureen O'Sullivan (II)	---
1936	film	Tarzan Escapes	Johnny Weissmuller (III)	Maureen O'Sullivan (III)	---
1939	film	Tarzan Finds a Son!	Johnny Weissmuller (IV)	Maureen O'Sullivan (IV)	Johnny Sheffield (Boy) (I)	Sheffield debuts
1941	film	Tarzan's Secret Treasure	Johnny Weissmuller (V)	Maureen O'Sullivan (V)	Johnny Sheffield (Boy) (II)
1942	film	Tarzan's New York Adventure	Johnny Weissmuller (VI)	Maureen O'Sullivan (VI)	Johnny Sheffield (Boy) (III)	Final appearance of Maureen O'Sullivan as "Jane". Last MGM film.
1943	film	Tarzan Triumphs	Johnny Weissmuller (VII)	---	Johnny Sheffield (Boy) (IV)	franchise moves from MGM to RKO under producer Sol Lesser. Jane does not appear in this or the next film.
1943	film	Tarzan’s Desert Mystery	Johnny Weissmuller (VIII)	---	Johnny Sheffield (Boy) (V)
1945	film	Tarzan and the Amazons	Johnny Weissmuller (IX)	Brenda Joyce (I)	Johnny Sheffield (Boy) (VI)	Jane returns to the series, now played by Brenda Joyce.
1946	film	Tarzan and the Leopard Woman	Johnny Weissmuller (X)	Brenda Joyce (II)	Johnny Sheffield (Boy) (VII)
1947	film	Tarzan and the Huntress	Johnny Weissmuller (XI)	Brenda Joyce (III)	Johnny Sheffield (Boy) (VIII)	Last appearance of Sheffield as "Boy"
1948	film	Tarzan and the Mermaids	Johnny Weissmuller (XII)	Brenda Joyce (IV)	---	Last film to star Weissmuller partially filmed in Mexico
1949	film	Tarzan's Magic Fountain	Lex Barker (I)	Brenda Joyce (V)	---	First film to star Lex Barker. Fifth and final appearance of Brenda Joyce as "Jane".
1950	film	Tarzan and the Slave Girl	Lex Barker (II)	Vanessa Brown	---
1951	film	Tarzan's Peril	Lex Barker (III)	Virginia Huston	---	partially filmed in Kenya
1952	film	Tarzan's Savage Fury	Lex Barker (IV)	Dorothy Hart	Tommy Carlton (Joey)
1953	film	Tarzan and the She-Devil	Lex Barker (V)	Joyce MacKenzie	---	Final film to star Lex Barker
1955	film	Tarzan's Hidden Jungle	Gordon Scott (I)	---	---	First film to star Gordon Scott Final RKO Picture produced film. Final Black-and-white film originally produced for theaters.
1957	film	Tarzan and the Lost Safari	Gordon Scott (II)	---	---	First Tarzan film in color
1958	film	Tarzan and the Trappers	Gordon Scott (III)	Eve Brent (I)	Rickie Sorensen (Tartu, Tarzan's adopted son) (I)	A black and white pilot film, re-edited from three unaired TV episodes and issued to theaters. The re-edited version was finally aired on TV in 1966.
1958	film	Tarzan's Fight for Life	Gordon Scott (IV)	Eve Brent (II)	Rickie Sorensen (Tartu, Tarzan's adopted son) (II)	in color, as would be all subsequent Tarzan films; last Tarzan film produced by Sol Lesser the last in the franchise to follow the Weissmuller formula of a pidgin-speaking Tarzan living in a treehouse with Jane. Final appearance of the Jane character in the mainstream Tarzan film franchise until 1981.
1959	film	Tarzan's Greatest Adventure	Gordon Scott (V)	---		first of the Sy Weintraub productions, revamping the character as an educated lone adventurer
1960	film	Tarzan the Magnificent	Gordon Scott (VI)	---		Not based on the Burroughs novel of the same name Last film to star Gordon Scott
1962	film	Tarzan Goes to India	Jock Mahoney (I)	---		First film to star Jock Mahoney
1963	film	Tarzan's Three Challenges	Jock Mahoney (II)	---		Last film to star Jock Mahoney
1966	TV series	Tarzan	Ron Ely	---	Manuel Padilla (Jai) (I)	2 seasons (57 episodes), from 8 Sep 1966 to 5 Apr 1968.
1966	film	Tarzan and the Valley of Gold	Mike Henry (I)	---	Manuel Padilla (Ramel) (II)	First film to star Mike Henry
1967	film	Tarzan and the Great River	Mike Henry (II)	---	Manuel Padilla (Pepe) (III)
1968	film	Tarzan and the Jungle Boy	Mike Henry (III)	---	Steve Bond (Erik)	Last film to place Tarzan in the present day
1976	Animated TV series	Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle	Robert Ridgely (voice)	Linda Gary (voice)	---	4 seasons (36 episodes), from 11 Sep 1976 to 6 Sep 1980. -- First animated series. -- Jane appears only in one episode of the series.
1981	film	Tarzan the Ape Man	Miles O'Keeffe	Bo Derek	---	First appearance of Jane since Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958) and last time her surname is "Parker" instead of "Porter" Last appearance of Cheeta First film to treat Tarzan as a 1910s period piece, which becomes the norm afterwards
1984	film	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	Christopher Lambert	Andie MacDowell	Tali McGregor (Infant Tarzan) - Peter Kyriakou (1y-old Tarzan) - Danny Potts (5y-old Tarzan) - Eric Langlois (12y-old Tarzan)
1985	film	Adventures of Tarzan	Hemant Birje (I)	Kimi Katkar (Ruby)	---	Unauthorized Indian Hindi-language film
1989	TV film	Tarzan in Manhattan	Joe Lara (I)	Kim Crosby	---
1990	film	Lady Tarzan	Silk Smitha (Lady Tarzan)	---	---	Unauthorized Indian Hindi-language film. A female version of Tarzan.
1991	TV series	Tarzán <French>	Wolf Larson	Lydie Denier	---	3 season (75 episodes), from 4 Oct 1991 to 15 Jan 1995. -- In this version, Tarzan was portrayed as a blond environmentalist, with Jane turned into a French ecologist.
1996	TV series	Tarzan: The Epic Adventures	Joe Lara (II)	---	---	1 season (22 episodes), from 28 Aug 1996 to 25 May 1997.
1998	film	Tarzan and the Lost City	Casper Van Dien			First and only film to star Casper Van Dien
1999	Animated film	Tarzan	Tony Goldwyn (voice)	Minnie Driver (voice)	Alex D. Linz (young Tarzan) (voice)	A Disney production.
2001	Animated TV series	The Legend of Tarzan	Michael T. Weiss (voice)	Olivia d'Abo (voice)	---	2 seasons (39 episodes), from 3 Sep 2001 to 5 Feb 2003. -- Disney animated series, based on the film Tarzan (1999) by Walt Disney Pictures.
2002	film	Tarzan Ki Beti	Hemant Birje (II)		---	Unauthorized Indian Hindi-language film
2003	TV series	Tarzan	Travis Fimmel	Sarah Wayne Callies	---	1 season (8 episodes), from 5 Oct 2003 to 23 Nov 2003. -- This version is set in contemporary New York City, with Jane as a police detective.
2013	Computer-animated film	Tarzan	Kellan Lutz	Spencer Locke	Craig Garner & Anton Zetterholm (young Tarzan)	Based on the classic book Tarzan of the Apes (1912).
2016	film	The Legend of Tarzan	Alexander Skarsgård
2017	Animated TV series	Tarzan and Jane	Giles Panton (voice)	Rebecca Shoichet (voice)	---	2 seasons (13 episodes), from 6 Jan 2017 to 12 Oct 2018.