Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs was born on Sep 01, 1875 in USA. Edgar Rice Burroughs's big-screen debut came with Tarzan of the Apes directed by Scott Sidney in 1918. Edgar Rice Burroughs is known for Tarzan directed by Chris Buck, Brian Blessed stars as Clayton and Glenn Close as Kala. The upcoming new movie Edgar Rice Burroughs plays is The Legend of Tarzan which will be released on Jul 01, 2016.
His father had been a major in the Union army during the Civil War. Edgar Rice Burroughs attended the Brown School then, due to a diphtheria epidemic, Miss Coolie's Maplehurst School for Girls, then the Harvard School, Phillips Andover and the Michigan Military Academy. He was a mediocre student and flunked his examination for West Point. He worked a variety of jobs all over the country: a cowboy in Idaho, a gold miner in Oregon, a railroad policeman in Utah, a department manager for Sears Roebuck in Chicago. He published "A Princess of Mars" under the title "Under the Moons of Mars" in six parts between February and July of 1912. The same "All-Story Magazine" put out his immediately successful "Tarzan of the Apes" in October of that year. Two years later the hardback book appeared, and on January 27, 1918, the movie opened on Broadway starring Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan. It was one of the first movies to gross over $1,000,000. Burroughs was able to move his family to the San Fernando Valley in 1919, converting a huge estate into Tarzana Ranch. He was in Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 and remained in Hawaii as a war correspondent. Afterward he returned home with a heart condition. On March 19, 1950, alone in his home after reading the Sunday comics in bed, he died. By then he had written 91 novels, 26 of which were about Tarzan. The man whose books have sold hundreds of millions of copies in over thirty languages once said "I write to escape ... to escape poverty".
Birthday
Sep 01, 1875Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known For
Movies & TV Shows
- 2016
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6.2 - 2013
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4.8 - 2012
writer
6.6 - 2009
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3.1 - 20093.2
- 20055.5
- 2002
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5.2 - 1999
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7.3 - 1998
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3.9 - 1989
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4.2 - 19846.4
- 1981
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3.4 - 19775.4
- 1976
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5.0 - 19745.6
- 19734.0
- 1970
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5.6 - 19685.2
- 19675.4
- 19675.3
- 19635.6
- 1962
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5.3 - 1960
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6.4 - 1960
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4.9 - 19596.4
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- 1955
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5.4 - 1952
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5.8 - 1951
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5.7 - 19505.7
- 1947
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6.1 - 1945
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6.2 - 1943
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6.1 - 1943
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6.8 - 1943
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6.2 - 1941
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6.4 - 1941
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6.8 - 1939
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6.5 - 1938
writer, producer
4.4 - 1938
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4.7 - 1936
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6.5 - 1935
producer
4.4 - 1934
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7.3 - 1933
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4.8 - 1932
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7.0 - 1929
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5.4 - 1928
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6.2 - 19275.2
- 1918
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6.3 - 1918
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