The tall, musclebound actor who played the title character in the 1960s NBC series “Tarzan,” Ron Ely’s daughter says he died Sept. 29 in Los Alamos, California at age 86. While Ely was not quite as well-known as Tarzan as Olympic swimmer Johnny Weismuller, he helped form the image of the shirtless, loincloth-wearing character further immortalized by Disney. In 2019, he tragically returned to the news when his wife since 1984, Valerie Lundeen Ely, was stabbed to death at their Santa Barbara, California, home by their 30-year-old son, Cameron Ely. Their son was subsequently shot and killed by police.



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