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  • Category Motion Pictures

    Address 7042 Hollywood Blvd.

    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

About
Elmo Lincoln
Born:
1889-02-06,
Rochester,
Indiana,
USA
Education:
NA
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Death Date:
1952-06-27
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Elmo Lincoln

Elmo Lincoln was an American film actor. Born Otto Elmo Linkenhelt, the barrel-chested actor is best known in his silent movie role as the first Tarzan in 1918’s Tarzan of the Apes. He portrayed the character twice more — in The Romance of Tarzan and in the 1921 serial The Adventures of Tarzan.

Following the end of the silent movie era, Elmo left Hollywood and tried his hand at mining. In the late 1930s, he returned to the film industry, most often employed as an extra. He appeared, uncredited, in two Tarzan films in the 1940s — as a circus roustabout in Tarzan’s New York Adventure, and as a fisherman repairing his net in Tarzan’s Magic Fountain. His final work saw him also playing a brief, uncredited role in Carrie, starring Laurence Olivier. According to Tarzan of the Movies, by Gabe Essoe, Lincoln was quite proud of his work in this film, as he was an admirer of Olivier.

Lincoln died of a heart attack in 1952, aged 63, and was interred in the Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery.

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