In the 1960s he became famous as “Tarzan” and later filmed with Uschi Glas. Ron Ely has now died aged 86.
US actor Ron Ely is dead The 86-year-old who died on September 29 with his family in Los Alamos, said his daughter Kirsten on the portal TMZ. “Wherever he went, he unleashed a powerful wave of positive influence,” she said in an Instagram post.
Claim through Tarzan
Ely became famous in the 1960s as “Tarzan” in the NBC series of the same name, which also ran in Germany. Johnny Weissmuller, a Tarzan actor in the 1930s and 1940s and an Olympic swimmer, did not achieve fame in Elizabeth. But he helped shape the image of the loincloth-wearing jungle hero.
In 1972 he was in front of the camera with Uschi Glas in the spaghetti western “100 fists and the Lord’s Prayer”. He also played a leading role in the adventure film “Doc Savage – The Man of Bronze” (1975). Later he appeared in TV series such as “Fantasy Island” and “Love Boat”. In the 1990s he also wrote two crime novels.
In 2001, Ely ended his acting career to focus on his family. In 2014 he briefly returned to the screen for the film “Expecting Amish”.
Violent crime a troubled family
Ely was married to Valerie Lundeen, a former Florida beauty queen, since 1984. The couple had three children: two daughters and a son. In 2019, the family experienced a violent crime in which Ely Cameron’s son assaulted his mother for the first time and the police were subsequently shot.
Ron Ely later questioned the prosecution’s report that the shooting was justified. Ron Ely was at home when the crime happened.