Biography
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".
Filmography
all 73
Movies 69
Writer 63
TV Shows 4
Creator 2
Heroes In Harm's Way (2020)
Zenimation (2020)
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Tarzan (2013)
John Carter (2012)
Princess of Mars (2009)
The Land That Time Forgot (2009)
Tarzan II (2005)
Tarzan & Jane (2002)
The Legend of Tarzan (2001)
Tarzan (1999)
Tarzan of the Apes (1998)
Tarzan and the Lost City (1998)
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996)
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996)
Tarzan in Manhattan (1989)
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)
The People That Time Forgot (1977)
At the Earth's Core (1976)
The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
Tarzan in King Solomon's Mines (1973)
The Mountains of the Moon (1972)
Tarzan's Deadly Silence (1970)
Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968)
Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion (1967)
Tarzan and the Great River (1967)
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966)
Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963)
Tarzan Goes to India (1962)
Tarzan the Magnificent (1960)
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959)
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
Tarzan and the Trappers (1958)
Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955)
Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953)
Tarzan in Istanbul (1952)
Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)
Tarzan's Peril (1951)
Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950)
Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949)
Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)
Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)
Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
The Underground World (1943)
Tarzan Triumphs (1943)
Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)
Jungle Girl (1941)
Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938)
Tarzan's Revenge (1938)
Tarzan Escapes (1936)
The Lion Man (1936)
The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935)
The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935)
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
Tarzan the Fearless (1933)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Tarzan the Tiger (1929)
Tarzan the Mighty (1928)
Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927)
The Adventures of Tarzan (1921)
The Revenge of Tarzan (1920)
The Son of Tarzan (1920)
The Oakdale Affair (1919)
The Romance of Tarzan (1918)
Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
The Lad and the Lion (1917)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1875-09-02
Deathday1950-03-19 (74 years old)
Birth PlaceChicago, United States of America
Height
RelationshipsFlorence Gilbert (1935-01-01 - 1941-01-01)
ChildrenJohn Coleman Burroughs
FatherGeorge Tyler Burroughs
MotherMary Evaline Zieger
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsЭдгар Райс Берроуз
AwardsScience Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Inkpot Award
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