Title: Tarzan in film and other non-print media
Content: originally by actor Johnny Weissmüller in the title role, which lasted from the 1930s through the 1960s. Tarzan films under Weissmüller often featured Tarzan's chimpanzee companion Cheeta. Later Tarzan films after Weissmüller have been occasional and somewhat idiosyncratic. The first Tarzan films were eight silent features and serials released between 1918 and 1929, most based on novels in the original series. Elmo Lincoln starred in the first Tarzan feature, "Tarzan of the Apes" (1918), a faithful cinematic rendering of Burroughs' first Tarzan novel. The first portion of the film featured Gordon Griffith as the young Tarzan, so Griffith could technically

Title: Tarzan in film and other non-print media
Content: be considered the first screen Tarzan. (Early in the film, Tarzan is also shown as a baby played by at least two different uncredited children.) Elmo Lincoln returned for two sequels. Additional silents were produced in the 1920s with other actors (three of these films – "The Romance of Tarzan" (1918, Elmo Lincoln), "The Revenge of Tarzan" (1920, Gene Pollar), and "Tarzan the Mighty" (1928, Frank Merrill) – have been lost). One of the silents, "Tarzan and the Golden Lion" (1927), featured the then-unknown Boris Karloff as a villainous native chieftain. Other actors who portrayed the character in 1920s films

Title: Tarzan in film and other non-print media
Content: also known as Steve Hawkes played Tarzan in two films produced by a Spanish company and intended for world markets. The first was variously titled "Tarzán en la gruta del oro"/"King of the Jungle"/"Tarzan in the Golden Grotto" (1969) and portions were filmed in Suriname, Florida, Africa, Spain and Italy, with interruptions when the producers ran out of money. Sipek claimed the film company couldn't pay the huge licensing fees from Edgar Rice Burroughs' estate and settled for the name "Zan" or "Karzan" for the character. A 1972 sequel, "Tarzan and the Brown Prince" (1972), had portions filmed in Rainbow

Title: Tarzan in film and other non-print media
Content: were P. Dempsey Tabler and James Pierce (who married the daughter of Edgar Rice Burroughs). The first Tarzan sound film was "Tarzan the Tiger" (1929), featuring Frank Merrill as the Ape Man, shot as a silent but partially dubbed for release. It was Merrill’s second Tarzan movie, and it cost him the role, as his voice was deemed unsuitable for the part. The most popular series of Tarzan films began with "Tarzan the Ape Man" (1932), starring Johnny Weissmüller and Maureen O'Sullivan. Weissmüller, the son of ethnic-German immigrants from Romania, was already well known as a five-time Olympic gold medalist

Title: Johnny Weissmuller
Content: MGM with actress Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane and Cheeta the Chimpanzee. The last three also included Johnny Sheffield as Boy. Then, in 1942, Weissmuller went to RKO and starred in six more Tarzan movies with markedly reduced production values. Sheffield also appeared as Boy in the first five features for RKO. Brenda Joyce took over the role of Jane in Weissmuller's last four Tarzan movies (the first two RKO films had not featured Jane). Unlike MGM, RKO allowed Weissmuller to play other roles, though a three-picture contract with Pine-Thomas Productions led to only one film, "Swamp Fire", being made, co-starring

Question: Who played Tarzan in the first two Tarzan films?
Answer: Elmo Lincoln