Mike Henry, a former pro football player, played Tarzan three times: Tarzan and the Valley of Gold, Tarzan and the Great River and Tarzan and the Jungle Boy, all filmed in 1966.
TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD (1966)
Cast: Mike Henry (Tarzan), Nancy Kovack (Sophia Renault), Manuel Padilla Jr. (Ramel), David Opatoshu, Don Megowan, Edwardo Noriega.
Directed by Robert Day; Screenplay by Clair Huffaker based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
PLOT: The international criminal Vinaro enjoys sending explosive wristwatches to his enemies. Here he kidnaps ten-year-old Ramel whom he thinks can lead him to the lost city of gold. Tarzan fights the evil Mr. Train, six-foot-six bodyguard of Vinaro, and rescues Sophia, who has been left to die with an explosive around her neck. Various animals help Tarzan locate Vinaro's tanks and helicopters, the city and the boy.
TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER (1967)
Cast: Mike Henry (Tarzan), Jan Murray (Captain Sam Bishop), Manuel Padilla Jr. Pepe), Diana Millay (Dr. Ann Philips), Rafer Johnson, Paulo Gracindo.
Directed by Robert Day; Screenplay by Bob Barbash froma story by Lewis Reed based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
PLOT: In Brazil, Dr. Ann Philips is trying to innoculate the superstitious natives against an epidemic. The murderous leopard cult opposes the intrusion. The natives take heart when the riverboat captain's young helper Pepe volunteers for the first shot.
TARZAN AND THE JUNGEL BOY (1968)
Cast: Mike Henry (Tarzan), Alizia Gur (Myrna), Steve Bond (Erik), Rafer Johnson, Edward Johnson, Ronald Gans.
Directed by Robert Gordon; Screenplay by Stephen Lord.
PLOT: Tarzan is joined by a reporter and her fiance on a journey to find a boy who was abandoned in the jungle six years earlier. The search party must also battle an evil native, who is out to kill the boy and take over as chief of his brother's tribe.
