The rights to Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle presumably rest with the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the original author of the Tarzan novels.

In an essay found in Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe ( Win Scott Eckert, ed., MonkeyBrain Books, 2005 ), author Chuck Loridans contributes an article entitled " The Daughters of Greystoke " wherein he posits that Modesty is the daughter of Tarzan and La of Opar.

* March 19 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan author

Morton's Fork is cited by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Burroughs v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., 683 F. 2d 610 ( 1982 ), where heirs of Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs and Burroughs's rights-holding corporation Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., claimed copyright infringement in MGM's 1981 film Tarzan, the Ape Man.

Porges's brother Irwin ( 1909 .. 1998 ) was a biographer of the American author Edgar Rice Burroughs ( The Man Who Created Tarzan ).

This situation is repeated in The Legend of Tarzan episode " Tarzan and the Mysterious Visitor " where Tarzan meets his author Edgar Rice Burroughs who travels to Africa in search of inspiration for a new novel.

The neighborhood is a residential community located on the site of a former ranch owned by author Edgar Rice Burroughs It is named Tarzana after his storybook jungle character hero, Tarzan.

In 1915 or 1919, author of the popular Tarzan novels Edgar Rice Burroughs purchased Otis ’ s tract and established Tarzana Ranch.

An author as well, she penned her first novel, Move Over Tarzan, a woman's guide on how to be as assertive as the most aggressive, successful man using a woman's femininity.

* Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the Tarzan novels, attended the Michigan Military Academy.

" have an idea that this should refer to Tarzan and John Carter of Mars author Edgar Rice Burroughs instead of Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs.

It also utilized a number of corrective ideas first put forth by science fiction author Philip José Farmer in his mock-biography Tarzan Alive, most notably Farmer's explanation of how the speech-deprived ape man was later able to acquire language by showing Tarzan to be a natural mimic.

* Mangani ( Great Ape Language ) in the Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The idea was used by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan, in the seven-novel " Pellucidar " series, beginning with At the Earth's Core ( 1914 ).

After his swimming career, he became the sixth actor to portray Edgar Rice Burroughs's ape man, Tarzan, a role he played in twelve motion pictures.

Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories.

In his youth, he spent much time in the Carnegie library in Waukegan, reading such authors as H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan of the Apes.

* Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs is published

Several of Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Tarzan novels happen in and around the lost city of Opar, deep in the African jungles — with Opar evidently being another name for Ophir.

According to Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs he was the perfect portrayal of Tarzan.

Some fans have had a rather negative response to Betancourt's writing style and lack of characterization, and consider his work to be more of fan fiction, but Betancourt states that one of his primary motivations for writing the new books was to keep Roger Zelazny's books and stories alive and in print and to prevent them from fading into obscurity, much like how other authors have extended the stories and ongoing popularity of Robert E. Howard's Conan, Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series.

Foster's Tarzan comic strip, adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs ' novels, began January 7, 1929, continuing until Rex Maxon took over the Tarzan daily on June 10, 1929.

Mowgli has been cited as a major influence on Edgar Rice Burroughs ' character Tarzan.

Other attractions include Ernest Hemingway's birthplace home and his boyhood home, the Ernest Hemingway Museum, and the three Oak Park homes of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs.

* James Pierce, son-in-law of Edgar Rice Burroughs and one of the first actors to play Tarzan on film

Edgar Rice Burroughs placed adventures of Tarzan in areas in Africa that, at the time, remained mostly unknown to the West and to the East.

His music-theatre work includes the texts for Philip Glass ' 1000 Airplanes on the Roof, The Voyage, and The Sound of a Voice, the book for Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida ( co-written by Linda Woolverton and Robert Falls ), the Walt Disney Company's theatrical version of Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Tarzan ( with music and lyrics by Phil Collins ), the libretti for Bright Sheng's The Silver River, Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar, Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland ( libretto co-written by Chin ), and Howard Shore's The Fly as well as Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song.

* Edgar Rice Burroughs-The Beasts of Tarzan

* Edgar Rice Burroughs-The Return of Tarzan

* Edgar Rice Burroughs — Jungle Tales of Tarzan

In a notable crossover event between Burroughs ' series, there is a Tarzan story in which the Ape Man travels into Pellucidar.

As a wedding present, Burroughs included a clause in his next contract that stated that Pierce must play Tarzan.

It later appeared as a complete novel only after the success of Burroughs ' Tarzan series.

* Edgar Rice Burroughs — Tarzan the Untamed

Johnny Weissmuller ( born János Weißmüller ; June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984 ) was an American 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.

In his book, Tarzan, My Father, Johnny Weissmuller Jr. stated that although rumors of Peter Weissmüller living to " a ripe old age, remarrying along the way and spawning a large brood of little Weissmüllers " were reported, no one in the family was aware of his ultimate fate.

Another co-star was Brenda Joyce, who played Jane in Weissmuller's last four Tarzan movies.

Although not the first Tarzan in movies ( that honor went to Elmo Lincoln ), he was the first to be associated with the now traditional ululating, yodeling Tarzan yell.

As his coffin was lowered into the ground, a recording of the Tarzan yell he invented was played three times, at his request.

One of Leiber's motives in creating them was to have a couple of fantasy heroes closer to true human nature than the likes of Howard's Conan the Barbarian or Burroughs's Tarzan.

The famous swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, later famous for playing the role of Tarzan, was born there ( his ethnicity being German ); he emigrated to the United States as an infant, before the age of 1.

Farmer suggested in two " biographies " of fictional characters ( Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life ), that the real meteorite ( Wold Cottage meteorite ) which fell near Wold Newton, Yorkshire, England, on December 13, 1795, was radioactive and caused genetic mutations in the occupants of a passing coach.

Jungle exotica was a Hollywood creation, with its roots in Tarzan movies and further back, to William Henry Hudson's novel Green Mansions.

Over the next several years, Merman was featured in two films, the successful It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ) and the flop The Art of Love ( 1965 ), and made dozens of television appearances, guesting on variety series hosted by Perry Como, Red Skelton, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Ed Sullivan, and Carol Burnett, on talk shows with Mike Douglas, Dick Cavett, and Merv Griffin, and in episodes of That Girl, The Lucy Show, Batman, and Tarzan, among others.

* Ron Ely, best remembered for his role as Tarzan on an NBC television series in the middle 1960s, was born in Hereford in 1938.

This song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song in 2000, and McLachlan performed it at the awards ceremony, but the award went to " You'll Be in My Heart " from Tarzan, written and recorded by Phil Collins.

This was followed by guest appearances on the television shows Beauty and the Beast ( 1987 ), Murder, She Wrote ( 1984 ), Tarzan ( 1991 ), Relic Hunter ( 1999 ), and as himself in WWF SmackDown ( 1999 ).

He played the sixth Earl of Greystoke in the 1984 film Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, for which he was again nominated for an Academy Award.

He won the BAFTA Award for Best British Actor for The Sound Barrier ( 1952 ), and was nominated on another three occasions ( his last being for Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes ).

At the time he starred in a few dramatizations of Tarzan, and his Tarzan yell was remarkable enough that sound effect technicians from Metro Goldwyn Mayer visited Puerto Rico and recorded Agrelot doing the yell.