Mr. Scott, who was 80, had spent the last after being befriended by Roger and Betty Thomas. They gave him a of his since he was a child.
He was his idol. When we were in Hollywood about eight years ago, we looked him up," said Mrs. Thomas, a retired licensed practical nurse who is a part-time actress.
"They called each other several times, and then we invited him for a visit. He came and never left." Rogersville, Pa.
, theater when I was a boy, and that was it," said Mr. Thomas, a retired factory worker. "I haven't had much time to think about his death and let it sink in.
He meant the world to me, and we had lots of good times together. I was blessed to have known him." Mrs.
Thomas said that since October, the former film and several hospitals. "He had nobody but us." According to a surviving brother, Rayfield Werschkull of Portland, Ore.
, Mr. Scott was born Gordon M. Werschkull there on Aug.
3, 1926. Other sources give his birth year as 1927, but the brother a family of nine kids, and we all ended up going in different directions. I haven't seen Gordon, whom we called Pete, for eight or 10 years.
We just didn't keep in touch," Mr. Werschkull said. Mr.
Scott was in his teens when he took up bodybuilding, "Vanity is the crutch of us all," Mr. Scott told City Paper reporter Chris Landers, whose profile of the actor was published in Wednesday's editions of the Baltimore weekly, with the news of his the Army in 1944, serving as a drill sergeant and military policeman "After the war, I bought a beverage lifeguard," his brother said. "And that's where Sol Lesser, a Hollywood producer, discovered him.
" Climbing trees, jumping into pools and swinging from ersatz vines for six hours, Mr. had auditioned for the part. And he was an impressive physical and athletic specimen, standing 6-foot-3, weighing 218 pounds and In 1953, he was awarded a sev en-year contract and the last name of Scott by Mr.
Lesser, becoming the 11th Tarzan, replacing Lex Barker. created by novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Hollywood movies based intelligent and nice man who carried himself well, much as my grandfather had originally written it," said Danton Burroughs of Tarzana, Calif. "He also gave a wonderful rendition of Tarzan's call which didn't have so much yodel in it.
" having had his fill of Tarzan, moved to Italy in 1960 and acted in Bill, Hero of the Far West. His last film. The Mitchum, was released in 1968.
himself later by attending autograph shows, film conventions and and loved to party," Mr. Scott's brother recalled. "If he had one weakness, it was women.
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