Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs Movies and TV Shows

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".

Personal info

  • Gender: Male
  • Date of birth: 9/2/1875 (148 years old)
  • Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Year
Genre
IMDB
TMDB
Available on the following streaming services in the United States
2016

Action

Adventure

Drama

Romance

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.2
59%
Tarzan
IMDB 4.8
TMDB 57%
role:
Writer
2013

Action

Adventure

Animation

Family

4.8
57%
Marvel’s Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H
IMDB 6.0
TMDB 65%
role:
Characters
Not available
2013

Action

Adventure

Animation

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.0
65%
Not available
John Carter
IMDB 6.6
TMDB 62%
role:
Writer
2012

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.6
62%
2009

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

War & Politics

3.1
41%
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2009

Action

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

3.2
35%
Tarzan II
IMDB 5.6
TMDB 61%
role:
Writer
2005

Adventure

Animation

Family

5.6
61%
Tarzan & Jane
IMDB 5.3
TMDB 60%
role:
Writer
2002

Animation

Family

5.3
60%
Tarzan
IMDB 7.3
TMDB 74%
role:
Novel
1999

Adventure

Animation

Drama

Family

7.3
74%
1984

Action

Adventure

Drama

Romance

6.4
63%
Tarzan, the Ape Man
IMDB 3.4
TMDB 38%
role:
Characters
1981

Action

Adventure

Comedy

3.4
38%
1976

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

5.0
50%
1974

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

5.6
57%
1942

Action

Adventure

6.5
66%
Tarzan and His Mate
IMDB 7.2
TMDB 66%
role:
Characters
Not available
1934

Action

Adventure

7.2
66%
Not available
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Tarzan the Ape Man
IMDB 6.9
TMDB 68%
role:
Characters
1932

Action

Adventure

6.9
68%

FAQs

Some movies or TV shows available in the United States starring or involving Edgar Rice Burroughs are, for example, The Legend of Tarzan, Tarzan and John Carter.
The streaming services with the largest selection are Prime Video, Amazon and iTunes.
The best Anystream ratings are Tarzan (7.4), Tarzan the Ape Man (6.9) and Tarzan's New York Adventure (6.6).
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