Edgar Rice Burroughs
Writing
Born 1875-09-02
Died 1950-03-19
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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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".
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Filmography
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Writing
23 credits
Tarzan
John Carter
The Legend of Tarzan
Tarzan II
Tarzan & Jane
Tarzan
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
The Land That Time Forgot
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
The People That Time Forgot
Tarzan and the Lost City
At the Earth's Core
The Land That Time Forgot
Princess of Mars
Tarzan's Revenge
Tarzan of the Apes
Tarzan and the Great River
The New Adventures of Tarzan
Jungle Girl
Tarzan the Fearless
The Mountains of the Moon
The Revenge of Tarzan
Acting
38 credits
Tarzan & Jane
Zenimation
Tarzan the Ape Man
Tarzan the Ape Man
Tarzan and His Mate
Tarzan Escapes
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
Tarzan and the Amazons
Tarzan Finds a Son!
Tarzan's Secret Treasure
Tarzan's New York Adventure
Tarzan Triumphs
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Tarzan and the Huntress
Tarzan and the Mermaids
The New Adventures of Tarzan
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
Tarzan's Fight for Life
Tarzan's Three Challenges
Tarzan and the She-Devil
Tarzan Goes to India
Tarzan's Peril
Tarzan and the Slave Girl
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
Tarzan's Magic Fountain
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
Tarzan and the Jungle Boy
Tarzan in Manhattan
Tarzan's Savage Fury
Tarzan the Magnificent
Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army
Tarzan and the Trappers
Tarzan, the Ape Man
Tarzan and the Brown Prince
Tarzan's Deadly Silence
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
Tarzan and the Green Goddess
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