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Greg Tarzan Davis

Cast · Known for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Top Gun: Maverick

Gregory Davis, Jr. (born September 25, 1993), better known as Greg Tarzan Davis is an American actor. Born in New Orleans he began in theater, moved to Los Angeles, and starting his acting career. In 2022, he played the role of Javy "Coyote" Machado in the Top Gun: Maverick film. In 2021, he received a recurring role on ABC's series Grey’s Anatomy. He also had a supporting role in the horror film Tales from the Hood 2 (2018).

Chris Buck

Cast · Director · Known for Surf's Up, Frozen, Frozen II

Chris Buck is a film director known for directing Tarzan and Surf's Up. He also worked as supervising animator on Home on the Range and Chicken Little. Buck's other credits at Disney include the 1995 animated feature Pocahontas, where he oversaw the animation of three central characters: Percy, Grandmother Willow and Wiggins. Buck also helped design characters for the 1989 animated blockbuster The Little Mermaid, performed experimental animation for The Rescuers Down Under and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and was an animator on The Fox and the Hound. Buck helped develop several films at Hyperion Pictures and served as a directing animator on the feature Bebe's Kids. He storyboarded director Tim Burton's live-action featurette Frankenweenie and worked with Burton again as directing animator on the Brad Bird-directed "Family Dog" episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories and as director of the subsequent primetime animated series. Buck's credits include a number of animated commercials (including some with the Keebler Elves) for such Los Angeles-based production entities as FilmFair, Kurtz & Friends, and Duck Soup. A native of Wichita, Kansas, Buck studied character animation for two years at CalArts, where he also taught from 1988–1993.

Henry Joseph Samiri

Henry Joseph Samiri was born on July 25, 2013 in Tarzana, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), American Horror Story (2011) and The Watchful Eye (2023).

Ava Allan

Ava Allan was born on March 1, 2000 (age 24) in Tarzana, California. She landed her first modeling job for Disney magazine when she was only five, and has continued to model for many national magazines, campaigns and commercials. Her television debut came at the age of ten on "True Jackson VP".

Hana Hatae

Hana Rebecca Hatae (born July 15, 1988, in Tarzana, California) is an American actress best known for her role as Molly O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She first appeared as the character in the TNG episode "Rascals" and later appeared in 11 episodes of DS9 between 1993 and 1999. Hatae started acting at a young age. She shared that she was very young when she got the role and didn't have a clear memory of her early experiences on the show. She recalls her time on DS9 fondly, especially episodes like "If Wishes Were Horses," where she was scared by a character, and "Time's Orphan," which involved some memorable outdoor scenes. After Star Trek, Hatae stepped away from acting, involving herself in music and sports, including roller hockey and violin. Her family also operated a well-known Japanese restaurant in Southern California. Hatae made her first official convention appearance at a Star Trek convention years after the show ended. Aside from acting, she enjoys activities like rock climbing and has plans to study psychology. She has a warm connection to the cast members, especially Rosalind Chao and Colm Meaney, who played her on-screen parents. Besides Star Trek, she has limited other credits including an appearance on Family Matters. She also featured as herself on a Gordon Ramsay "Kitchen Nightmares" episode featuring her family's restaurant.

Mark Mancina

Composer · Known for Con Air, Moana 2, Shooter

Mark Mancina (born 1957) is an American film composer. A  Hans Zimmer's Media Ventures veteran, Mancina has scored over sixty films and television series, including Speed, Bad Boys, Twister, Tarzan, Training Day, Brother Bear, Criminal Minds, Blood+, Planes, and Moana. He has collaborated with The Walt Disney Company, won two Grammy Awards, and was nominated for an Annie Award for Brother Bear. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score in a Musical for his work on the Disney Theatrical Productions adaptation of The Lion King. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Mancina, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Jean-Philippe Gossart

Cinematographer · Known for Shetland, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Witcher

Jean-Philippe Gossart is a French cinematographer and DOP known for Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) and The Legend of Tarzan (2016).

Jenn Gambatese

Jenn Gambatese is an American actress and singer. Gambatese has performed in the musical production of Disney's Tarzan as Jane. Gambatese also played Glinda on the first National Tour of Wicked.

Eve Brent

Cast · Known for The Green Mile

Jean Ann Ewers (September 11, 1929 – August 27, 2011), known professionally as Eve Brent and Jean Lewis, was an American actress who portrayed Jane in Tarzan's Fight for Life. Eve Brent began her career in radio and early television and later moved on to the college and little theater stage. Arriving in Hollywood with a husband and infant son in the 1950s, she landed some films including Gun Girls (1957), Journey to Freedom (1957), The Bride and the Beast (1958), and episodic TV roles. Maverick director Samuel Fuller changed her name to Eve Brent when she appeared in his western Forty Guns (1957), the first of dozens of screen roles for her under that name. She then played Jane opposite Gordon Scott's Tarzan in Tarzan and the Trappers, Tarzan's Fight for Life (both 1958), and in episodes of a Tarzan TV series. In addition to her big-screen and episodic TV assignments, she has appeared in hundreds of commercials. She later had the role of Elaine Connelly in The Green Mile and a small role in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Alex Ferns

Cast · Known for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, The Batman, Wrath of Man

Alex Ferns is a Scottish actor who is perhaps best known for playing abusive husband Trevor in BBC soap EastEnders. His film credits include Joyeux Noël, The Legend of Tarzan and the lead role in 2004's Man Dancin'. In 2019, Ferns starred as mining crew leader Andrei Glukhov in HBO/Sky miniseries Chernobyl.

Stephen Woolfenden

Director · Known for Outlander

Stephen Woolfenden is a British television director. He previously worked as a second unit director for the Harry Potter films. He has directed other TV shows and the Doctor Who episode "Nightmare in Silver." He has worked as the second unit director on The Legend of Tarzan film. Woolfenden is the son of English composer and conductor Guy Woolfenden. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Woolfenden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

David Reynolds

Writer · Known for Finding Nemo, Mulan, The Emperor's New Groove

Dave began his writing career in 1993 as one of the original writers on NBC's "Late Night With Conan O'Brien." After more than 400 shows, Dave moved to Los Angeles in 1995 and landed a job at Walt Disney Feature Animation in the movie "Tarzan." It was at this time that he met a little-known animation studio called Pixar, who asked him to help develop his second feature, (Toy Story would be released later that year) “A Bug's Life ". This led to a contract with the studio and for the next six years he worked on almost every Disney Pixar animation or production film. Including the script for "The Emperor's New Groove" as well as co-written 'Finding Nemo'. He was nominated for an Oscar and BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay for Nemo, as well as a BAFTA for New Groove.

Adam Ganne

Cast · Known for Fury

Adam Ganne is known for Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019), Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) and The Legend of Tarzan (2016).

Miles O'Keeffe

Miles O'Keeffe (born June 20, 1954) is a television and movie actor. O'Keeffe got his first big break playing the title role in the 1981 version of Tarzan, the Ape Man. Description above from the Wikipedia article Miles O'Keeffe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Bill Motz

Writer · Known for The Penguins of Madagascar

William Robert "Bill" Motz is the creator and executive producer of the animated television series LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures and LEGO Star Wars: All-Stars alongside writing partner Bob Roth. He is also the co-creator of The Ghost and Molly McGee and The Legend of Tarzan, both with Bob Roth. Outside of Disney, Motz has worked on other noteworthy shows, such as Xiaolin Showdown, El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, The Secret Saturdays, The Penguins of Madagascar, and Breadwinners.

Ron Ely

Ronald Pierce "Ron" Ely (born June 21, 1938) was an American actor and novelist born in Hereford, Texas. Ely is best known for having portrayed Tarzan in the 1966 NBC series Tarzan and for playing the lead role in the 1975 film Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze. Ely obtained the role after playing various bit-parts, including an airplane navigator in the 1958 film South Pacific and a guest-starring role on Barbara Eden's first television series, the romantic comedy How to Marry a Millionaire. Ely's height (6' 4") and athletic build also won him the title role in the 1975 film Doc Savage, as well as various guest shots. In a 1978 Fantasy Island episode, for example, Ely portrayed Mark Antony in a Roman military short tunic and breastplate that displayed almost as much of his physique as his Tarzan costume had. From 1960-61, Ely starred in the series The Aquanauts. In the 1980s, Ely hosted the musical game show Face the Music. Additionally, Ely hosted the 1980 and 1981 Miss America Pageants, replacing longtime host Bert Parks. In the 1990s, Ely’s roles included a retired Superman in the 1991 two-part episode "The Road to Hell" of the Superboy syndicated television series, and a big game hunter named Gordon Shaw in the 1992 episode "Tarzan the Hunted" of the syndicated Tarzán TV series (starring Wolf Larson). In recent years Ely has embarked on a successful writing career and has penned two mystery novels featuring private eye Jake Sands: Night Shadows (1994) and East Beach (1995). Until about 2001, Ely made appearances on popular TV shows, his most recent being Sheena and Renegade. He is now retired from acting. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ron Ely, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Mike Henry

Michael Dennis Henry (August 15, 1936 – January 8, 2021) was a former American football linebacker and film and television actor, best known for playing the main role as Tarzan in the 1960s movies Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966), Tarzan and the Great River (1967), and Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968).

Steve Bond

Bond was born Shlomo Goldberg in Haifa, Israel of a Romanian-born mother and a Hungarian-born father who had emigrated to Israel.He was a child actor who starred in Tarzan and the Jungle Boy, a 1968 release. He recreated himself in America in the early 1980s after doing his mandatory military service for the state of Israel. He became a daytime television actor on General Hospital. In 1984 Bond posed bare-chested for a pin-up wall poster. He married in 1982 and had a daughter. In 1989, he joined the cast of daytime drama Santa Barbara as Mack Blake where he stayed for one year only. Later, he starred as a seductive but evil vampire in the movies To Die For and Son of Darkness: To Die For II (1991). 1988 marked the year of Bond's breakthrough on to the Big Screen in his acclaimed theatrical role as Travis Abilene in the Andy Sidaris classic Picasso Trigger. Born Jewish, he later embraced Christianity, describing himself as a "Christian Jew".

Nicholas Rodriguez

Nicholas Rodriguez is an American actor. He made his Broadway debut in 2006 in Disney’s production of Tarzan. In 2017, as Captain Georg von Trapp in the national tour of The Sound of Music directed by Jack O’Brien. In 2021, he was cast as an understudy in the gender-swapped revival of Company on Broadway. On the big screen, Rodriguez was seen in Sex and the City 2 (2010). He is perhaps best known for the role of Nick Chavez on ABC’s One Life to Live.

Kevin Lima

Director · Known for Tarzan

Kevin Lima (born c. 1962) is an American film director who has directed a number of Disney films including his debut film A Goofy Movie in 1995, Tarzan, 102 Dalmatians, Eloise at the Plaza, Eloise at Christmastime and Enchanted. Before directing, he worked as an animator and character designer on films such as The Little Mermaid and The Great Mouse Detective and a story editor for Aladdin and Oliver & Company. At the moment he is working on a feature adaptation of the classic tale of Tom Thumb entitled Thumb for Warner Bros. Kevin is also developing Candy Land with Universal and Hasbro and Afterlife with Fox 2000. Kevin studied film and animation at the California Institute of the Arts, during the mid-80's. He is married to Brenda Chapman, an animation Director at Pixar. His grandparents were both Portuguese. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kevin Lima, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Marisa Pare

Marisa Pare was born on 9 October 1959 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Renegade (1992), Tarzán (1991) and Clueless (1996). She was previously married to Michael Paré.

Philip Abbott

Philip Abbott (March 21, 1923; Lincoln, Nebraska – February 23, 1998; Tarzana, California) was an American character actor and occasional voice actor. Abbott was a secondary lead in several films of the 1950s and 1960s. Miracle of the White Stallions (1963). He made more than one hundred guest appearances on various television programs from 1952–1995, including NBC's Justice about the Legal Aid Societ of New York and The Eleventh Hour, a medical drama about psychiatry. He appeared on the CBS anthology series Appointment with Adventure and The Lloyd Bridges Show. In 1965, he appeared in Dennis Weaver's NBC sitcom, Kentucky Jones, in the episode "The Music Kids Make". Abbott is best remembered as Assistant Director Arthur Ward on the TV series The F.B.I. He died of cancer in 1998. Description above from the Wikipedia article Philip Abbott, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Charlie Anson

Cast · Known for Death on the Nile

Charlie Anson is a British actor, cartoonist, and writer, 6′ 1″ (185 cm) tall, born in Switzerland to British parents. His exact birthday is not publicly confirmed in major sources. He gained a First Class Honours degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University before training at LAMDA, and is fluent in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. He also runs his own bespoke cartoon business, "Charlie's Cartoons," and lives in London with his partner and son Theo. His most notable film credits include Mr. Hurst in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), Sergeant in The Legend of Tarzan (2016), Sergeant Verhaeren in Death on the Nile (2022, directed by Kenneth Branagh), Michael Aspel in Misbehaviour (2020), a role in The Little Stranger (2018), Press Officer in Kill Your Friends (2015), Jérémy in Me, Myself and Mum (2013, 83% on Rotten Tomatoes), Josh Garfield in The Deaths of Ian Stone (2007), and Oliver in Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2024). On television he is best known as Larry Grey in Downton Abbey (2012–2015, 30 episodes), with additional credits in Peaky Blinders (2014, as Briggs), Doctor Who (2013, as Belevich), The Borgias (2011, as Vittorio Colonna), Rome (2005, as Young Emissary), Get Even (2020, Netflix), The Long Call (2021), Emily in Paris (2024), Silo (2025, Season 3), and Ghosts (Disney+). On stage he has appeared in Richard II (Old Vic), American Psycho (Almeida), A Room with a View and Portrait of a Lady (Theatre Royal Bath), Arcadia (Lowry), and Mary Poppins (West End, 2021).

Olivia D'Abo

Cast · Known for The Wonder Years

Olivia Jane d'Abo (born 22 January 1969) is an English actress, voice actress, and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her roles as Princess Jehnna in Conan the Destroyer (1984), Karen Arnold on The Wonder Years, Mara Simons in Beyond the Stars (1989), Angela in Point of No Return (1993), Betty Jo in Wayne's World 2 (1993), Molly Richardson in Greedy (1994), Marie Blake on the NBC sitcom The Single Guy, Anna Montgomery in The Big Green (1995), Tracey Meltempi in It Had to Be You (2000), and Nicole Wallace on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She has voiced the characters of Jane Porter in the Disney Channel animated series The Legend of Tarzan and the movie Tarzan & Jane, Rox in the 'Matriculated' segment of The Animatrix, Natalia Romanoff / Black Widow in the animated movies Ultimate Avengers 1 & 2 , Luminara Unduli in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and in the film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. She was engaged to singer Julian Lennon, which ended in 1992. Her son, Oliver William d'Abo, was born in 1995. In 1998, she became engaged to actor Thomas Jane after working with him on several projects, but the couple called it off in 2001. She was married to songwriter and music producer Patrick Leonard from 2002 to 2012. She dated professional skateboarder James Quakenbush from 2019 to 2022. Her father is singer-songwriter Mike d'Abo, lead vocalist of the group Manfred Mann. Some information ​is from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.