In 1949, Reeves filmed a Tarzan-type television pilot called Kimbar of the Jungle, and in 1950 became Mr. Universe. He appeared on television in Stars Over Hollywood in the episode "Prison Doctor" with Raymond Burr .

In his early Tarzan films, he played the character as unworldly and inarticulate, in the mold of Johnny Weissmuller, an earlier Tarzan portrayer. In Scott's later films, after a change in producers, he played a Tarzan who was educated and spoke perfect English, as in the original Edgar Rice Burroughs novels. [ 6 ]

2011年4月9日 · Episode 1 of Kimbar of the Jungle - The Lion Men starring a young Steve Reeves - he sure was handsome and well-built in 1949. Typical cookie-cutter type plot is set up - beautiful girl is searching for lost father and his uranium discovery - local villages threatened by "lion men" - they sure can roar.

I liked Steve Reeves – he had a limited range of course but made the very best of what he could do. Gordon Scott also – from the peak of his career in the Tarzan films – where he did pretty well – after following Lex Barker and Johnny Weismuller in the role – …

2019年6月18日 · STEVE (Hercules) REEVES and GORDON (Tarzan) SCOTT duel it out in an epic battle. At least that is what the posters would like you to believe. The is actually the re-telling of the Romulus and...

2015年2月16日 · "Steve Reeves throttles the screen evils with his big muscles in the old manner of Tarzan," sniped Richard Nason in The New York Times. "There is added but unintended humor in the fact that his voice has the querulous pitch of a bank clerk's." (Someone must have spiked Nason's popcorn.

Steve Reeves. Actor: Hercules. Handsome bodybuilder Steve Reeves certainly had an enviable Herculean physique, and made plenty good use of it in Europe during the late 1950s and early 1960s portraying some of filmdom's most famous bronzed gods. Reeves was originally a Montana boy born on a cattle ranch in 1926.

2007年5月3日 · BALTIMORE (AP) – Gordon Scott, a handsome, muscle-bound actor who portrayed Tarzan in the 1950s, has died. He was 80. Scott, who had been living in a working class section of south Baltimore,...

Steve Reeves. Actor: Hercules. Handsome bodybuilder Steve Reeves certainly had an enviable Herculean physique, and made plenty good use of it in Europe during the late 1950s and early 1960s portraying some of filmdom's most famous bronzed gods. Reeves was originally a Montana boy born on a cattle ranch in 1926.

In 1949, Steve Reeves filmed a Tarzan-type television pilot called Kimbar of the Jungle, and in 1950 became Mr Universe.