James Pierce
James Pierce was born on Aug 08, 1900 in USA. James Pierce's big-screen debut came with Tarzan and the Golden Lion directed by J.P. McGowan in 1927, strarring Tarzan. James Pierce is known for Stars in My Crown directed by Jacques Tourneur, Joel McCrea stars as Josiah Doziah Gray and Ellen Drew as Harriet Gray. The upcoming new movie James Pierce plays is Show Boat which will be released on Sep 24, 1951.
He had been an all-American center for Indiana University when he graduated in 1921. He coached football for two years in Arizona and tried amateur acting. He won the lead in Leatherstocking (1924), and stayed to coach at Glendale (California) High School. His teams included future film stars John Wayne, Robert Livingston and Jack Randall (Livingston's brother, who would later be known as cowboy star Jack Randall). During a party at Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzana ranch, Burroughs convinced Pierce to play Tarzan. Taking the role (which paid $75 a week) required Pierce to back out of the aviator part already offered him in Wings (1927) (it went to Gary Cooper). Though popular with audiences, the Tarzan film was panned by the critics. He and his wife played the Apeman and Jane on the radio through 364 15-minute episodes of a serial that played in every U.S. state, South America and Western Europe from 1932 to 1934. He quit this to play King Thun the Lion Man in Universal's Flash Gordon (1936) and was featured in Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939) for Republic. During World War II he helped form the National Airmen's Reserve, the foundation for the later Air National Guard.
Birthday
Aug 08, 1900Place of Birth
Freedom, Indiana, USA
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