P. Dempsey Tabler

By the time he did "The Son of Tarzan", at age 41, the Tennessee athlete had four seasons of light opera, had produced films, starred in several of Thomas H. Ince's Triangle productions, co-starred with William S. Hart in "Captive God", and had helped found Paramount Studios. He was balding and so wore a not-very-convincing ill-fitting, shabby wig for the part of Tarzan. His career did not rekindle, as he had hoped, so he went into advertising in San Francisco and made a fortune. He died there in retirement.