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Elmo Lincoln (1889–1952)

Actor

Elmo Lincoln, the original "Tarzan" of the movies, was born Otto Elmo Linkenhelt in Rochester, Indiana on February 6, 1889, into a middle-class family of seven. The largest child in his class at Lincoln School, Elmo developed a reputation as a prankster, hopping trains as a teen. He headed to California after he turned 18... See full bio »

Born:

Otto Elmo Linkenhelt
in Rochester, Indiana, USA

Died:

(age 63) in Los Angeles, California, USA
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1952 Carrie
Minor Role (uncredited)
 
1951 Iron Man
Minor Role (uncredited)
 
1949 Tarzan's Magic Fountain
A Fisherman (uncredited)
 
1948 Tap Roots
Sergeant (uncredited)
 
1947 A Double Life
Detective (uncredited)
 
1946 Rolling Home
Racing Official
 
1946 Badman's Territory
Dick Broadwell (uncredited)
 
1945 The Return of the Durango Kid
Luke Blake (uncredited)
 
1945 Escape in the Fog
Cop (uncredited)
 
1945 The Man Who Walked Alone
Turnkey
 
1944 When the Lights Go on Again
Farmer #2 (uncredited)
 
1944 The Story of Dr. Wassell (uncredited)
 
1943 Frontier Fury
Sam Stewart (uncredited)
 
1943 Fighting Frontier
Barfly who knocks Ike down (uncredited)
 
1942 Bandit Ranger
Townsman in Bank (uncredited)
 
1942 Tarzan's New York Adventure
Circus Roustabout (uncredited)
 
1942 Reap the Wild Wind (uncredited)
 
1940 Stage to Chino
Townsman (uncredited)
 
1939 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Minor Role (uncredited)
 
1939 The Real Glory
U.S. Captain (uncredited)
 
1939 Colorado Sunset
Dairyman Burns
 
1939 Timber Stampede
Townsman (uncredited)
 
1939 Wyoming Outlaw
U.S. Marshal Gregg
 
1939 Blue Montana Skies
Mack (uncredited)
 
1939 Union Pacific
Card Player (uncredited)
 
1927 The King of the Jungle
 
1926 Whom Shall I Marry
 
1925 All Around Frying Pan
Foreman Slade
 
1923 Fashion Row
Kaminoff
 
1923 The Rendezvous
Godunoff
 
1923/I The Hunchback of Notre Dame (uncredited)
 
1923 Rupert of Hentzau
Simon (the king's forester)
 
1922 Quincy Adams Sawyer
Abner Stiles
 
1922 The Big Ranger (short)
 
1922 Desperation (short)
 
1922 Fighting Back (short)
 
1921 The Adventures of Tarzan
Tarzan
 
1920 The Flaming Disc
Elmo Gray/Jim Gray
 
1920 Under Crimson Skies
Captain Yank Barstow
 
1920 Elmo the Fearless
The Stranger
 
1920 Devotion
Robert Trent
 
1919 The Fall of Babylon
The Mighty Man of Valour
 
1919 Elmo, the Mighty
Capt. Elmo Armstrong
 
1918 The Road Through the Dark
Pvt. Schultz
 
1918 The Greatest Thing in Life
The American soldier
 
1918 The Romance of Tarzan
Tarzan
 
1918 The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin
Marcas, the Blacksmith
 
1918 Tarzan of the Apes
Tarzan
 
1918 Treasure Island
Prologue Player
 
1917 Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Magic Genie
 
1917 Might and the Man
McFadden
 
1917 Below the Deadline (short)
 
1917 Betsy's Burglar
 
1917 The Bad Boy
Yeggman
 
1916 Children of the Feud
Bad Bald Clayton
 
1916 Gretchen the Greenhorn
Mystery Ship Captain
 
1916 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Mighty Man of Valor (uncredited)
 
1916 The Half-Breed
The Doctor (uncredited)
 
1916 Hoodoo Ann
Officer Lambert
 
1916 The Fatal Glass of Beer
 
1915 Jordan Is a Hard Road
 
1915 The Root of All Evil (short)
Circus Kelly
 
1915 Providence and the Twins (short)
 
1915 The Mystic Jewel (short)
 
1915 A Bad Man and Others (short)
Msquite Mike
 
1915 Pirates Bold (short)
 
1915 Her Shattered Idol
Ben - a Blacksmith
 
1915 The Absentee
The Toiler - in the Prologue (as Elmo Linkenhelt)
 
1915 The Light in the Window (short)
Joe Blake (as Otto Lincoln)
 
1915 The Slave Girl (short)
Bob West (as Otto Lincoln)
 
1915 The Double Crossing of Slim (short) (as Otto Lincoln)
 
1915 The Birth of a Nation
Blacksmith (uncredited)
 
1915 Buckshot John
The Sheriff (as Oscar Linkenhelt)
 
1914 The Primitive Man (short)
In Club (Prologue)/Tribesman (The Old Days)
 
1914 Judith of Bethulia
 
1914 John Barleycorn (as Lincoln Helt)
 
1913 The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (short)
Cavalryman
 
1913 The Suffragette Minstrels (short)
In Audience
 
1913 The Reformers; or, The Lost Art of Minding One's Business (short)
In Theatre Audience / Bootlegger
 
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1951 Hollywood Story
Himself (uncredited)
 
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1996 Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan (video documentary short)
 
1963 Fractured Flickers (TV series)
 

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Personal Details

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Alternate Names:

Lincoln Helt | Otto Lincoln | Elmo Linkenhelt | Oscar Linkenhelt | Otto Linkenhelt

Height:

5' 11½" (1.82 m)
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Trivia:

It is mistakenly thought that Lincoln's performance as Tarzan in Tarzan of the Apes (1918) was the first time the character ever appeared on screen. Technically, this is wrong. The first actor to play Tarzan in a movie was Gordon Griffith who appears in Tarzan of the Apes (1918), playing the character as a child before Lincoln appears on screen. See more »

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