About

Known credits:
67
Birthday:
1875-09-02
Place of birth:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Overview

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".

Known for

Writing
2016 The Legend of Tarzan Writing Novel 59
Average
2013 Tarzan Writing Novel 57
Average
2012 John Carter Writing Novel 62
Fair
2009 Princess of Mars Writing Novel 57
Average
2009 The Land That Time Forgot Writing Novel 57
Average
2005 Tarzan II Writing Novel 60
Fair
2002 Tarzan & Jane Writing Original Story 59
Average
2002 Tarzan & Jane Writing Characters 59
Average
1999 Tarzan Writing Novel 72
Good
1998 Tarzan of the Apes Writing Novel 58
Average
1998 Tarzan and the Lost City Writing Original Story 57
Average
1996 Tarzan: The Epic Adventures Writing Characters 58
Average
1989 Tarzan in Manhattan Writing Characters 58
Average
1984 Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes Writing Novel 61
Fair
1981 Tarzan the Ape Man Writing Characters 56
Average
1977 The People That Time Forgot Writing Novel 58
Average
1976 At the Earth's Core Writing Novel 57
Average
1974 The Land That Time Forgot Writing Novel 58
Average
1970 Tarzan's Deadly Silence Writing Characters 58
Average
1968 Tarzan and the Jungle Boy Writing Characters 58
Average
1967 The Mountains of the Moon Writing Author N/A
N/A
1967 Tarzan and the Great River Writing Original Story 58
Average
1966 Tarzan and the Valley of Gold Writing Characters 58
Average
1963 Tarzan's Three Challenges Writing Characters 58
Average
1960 Tarzan the Magnificent Writing Characters 58
Average
1959 Tarzan, the Ape Man Writing Characters 58
Average
1959 Tarzan's Greatest Adventure Writing Characters 58
Average
1958 Tarzan's Fight for Life Writing Characters 58
Average
1958 Tarzan and the Trappers Writing Characters 58
Average
1955 Tarzan's Hidden Jungle Writing Characters 58
Average
1953 Tarzan and the She-Devil Writing Characters 58
Average
1952 Tarzan's Savage Fury Writing Characters 58
Average
1951 Tarzan's Peril Writing Characters 58
Average
1950 Tarzan and the Slave Girl Writing Characters 58
Average
1949 Tarzan's Magic Fountain Writing Characters 58
Average
1948 Tarzan and the Mermaids Writing Characters 58
Average
1947 Tarzan and the Huntress Writing Characters 58
Average
1946 Tarzan and the Leopard Woman Writing Characters 58
Average
1945 Tarzan and the Amazons Writing Characters 59
Average
1943 Tarzan's Desert Mystery Writing Characters 59
Average
1943 The Underground World Writing Novel 59
Average
1943 Tarzan Triumphs Writing Characters 59
Average
1942 Tarzan's New York Adventure Writing Characters 59
Average
1941 Tarzan's Secret Treasure Writing Characters 58
Average
1941 Jungle Girl Writing Novel 59
Average
1939 Tarzan Finds a Son! Writing Characters 59
Average
1938 Tarzan and the Green Goddess Writing Characters 58
Average
1938 Tarzan's Revenge Writing Novel 58
Average
1936 Tarzan Escapes Writing Characters 59
Average
1936 The Lion Man Writing Short Story 58
Average
1935 The New Adventures of Tarzan Writing Characters 59
Average
1935 The New Adventures of Tarzan Writing Novel 58
Average
1934 Tarzan and His Mate Writing Characters 60
Fair
1933 Tarzan the Fearless Writing Story 58
Average
1932 Tarzan the Ape Man Writing Characters 60
Fair
1929 Tarzan the Tiger Writing Novel 59
Average
1928 Tarzan the Mighty Writing Novel N/A
N/A
1927 Tarzan and the Golden Lion Writing Novel 58
Average
1921 The Adventures of Tarzan Writing Novel 59
Average
1920 The Revenge of Tarzan Writing Novel 58
Average
1920 The Son of Tarzan Writing Novel 58
Average
1919 The Oakdale Affair Writing Novel N/A
N/A
1918 The Romance of Tarzan Writing Novel N/A
N/A
1918 Tarzan of the Apes Writing Novel 58
Average
1917 The Lad and the Lion Writing Novel N/A
N/A

Production
1935 The New Adventures of Tarzan Production Producer 58
Average
1935 The New Adventures of Tarzan Production Producer 59
Average