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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Profissão
Roteiro
Nascimento
2 de setembro de 1875 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Falecimento
19 de março de 1950

Biografia

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".

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Pôster de Tarzan
Tarzan
Filme · 1999 · ★ 7,4
Pôster de A Lenda de Tarzan
A Lenda de Tarzan
Filme · 2016 · ★ 5,9
Pôster de John Carter: Entre Dois Mundos
John Carter: Entre Dois Mundos
Filme · 2012 · ★ 6,4
Pôster de Tarzan 2: A Lenda Começa
Tarzan 2: A Lenda Começa
Filme · 2005 · ★ 6,1
Pôster de Tarzan e Jane
Tarzan e Jane
Filme · 2002 · ★ 6,0
Pôster de Tarzan: A Evolução da Lenda
Tarzan: A Evolução da Lenda
Filme · 2013 · ★ 5,7
Pôster de Greystoke: A Lenda de Tarzan, o Rei da Selva
Greystoke: A Lenda de Tarzan, o Rei da Selva
Filme · 1984 · ★ 6,4
Pôster de Tarzan - O Filho das Selvas
Tarzan - O Filho das Selvas
Filme · 1932 · ★ 6,6
Pôster de A Terra Que o Tempo Esqueceu
A Terra Que o Tempo Esqueceu
Filme · 1974 · ★ 5,7
Pôster de No Coração da Terra
No Coração da Terra
Filme · 1976 · ★ 5,1
Pôster de Tarzan e Sua Companheira
Tarzan e Sua Companheira
Filme · 1934 · ★ 6,5
Pôster de A Fuga de Tarzan
A Fuga de Tarzan
Filme · 1936 · ★ 6,9

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