"They always picked me for the Tarzan films because my skin was so black," he told an interviewer.
In Disney's Tarzan film, nature is feminine and civilization masculine.
Numerous Tarzan films have been made with no connection to his writings other than the character.
She appeared in two of the popular Tarzan films.
This use of non-blacks as natives continued for several other Tarzan films in the 1940s.
His home was a few miles from the lake where his last Tarzan film was shot.
He made close to 20 Tarzan films, the last one in 1949.
Barker made only five Tarzan films, but he remains one of the actors best known for the role.
Critics complained that it was aimed more toward juvenile audiences than previous Tarzan films had been.
Considered one of the best of the Tarzan films by many.
Animals usually had it better than women and blacks in Tarzan movies.
I remember following him with the replacement screen balanced on my head, like a native bearer in a Tarzan movie.
They and many other officers spent the evening at a theater watching a Tarzan movie.
"Probably the sound track of an old Tarzan movie."
She is watching a Tarzan movie on television.
The movie was the first Tarzan movie ever made.
This movie is a send-up of the classic Tarzan movies.
No need to wonder how this animated Tarzan movie could improve on the 47 others that preceded it.
You should be free, he said, to write about Tarzan movies, as one author does in the current issue, without tying them into the culture wars.
His prize was a screen test for a Tarzan movie, or $1,000.
"They always picked me for the Tarzan films because my skin was so black," he told an interviewer.
In Disney's Tarzan film, nature is feminine and civilization masculine.
Numerous Tarzan films have been made with no connection to his writings other than the character.
She appeared in two of the popular Tarzan films.
This use of non-blacks as natives continued for several other Tarzan films in the 1940s.
His home was a few miles from the lake where his last Tarzan film was shot.
He made close to 20 Tarzan films, the last one in 1949.
Barker made only five Tarzan films, but he remains one of the actors best known for the role.
Critics complained that it was aimed more toward juvenile audiences than previous Tarzan films had been.
Considered one of the best of the Tarzan films by many.