Elmo Lincoln

Elmo Lincoln
Lincoln in 1923
Born	Otto Elmo Linkenhelt February 6, 1889 Rochester, Indiana, U.S.
Died	June 27, 1952 (aged 63) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Heart attack
Resting place	Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Years active	1913–1952
Spouse(s)	Sadie Whited (?–?) Ida Lee Tanchick (1935–?)

Elmo Lincoln (born Otto Elmo Linkenhelt) (February 6, 1889 – June 27, 1952) was an American film actor.

Tarzan Films

Lincoln is best known in his silent movie role as the first Tarzan in 1918's Tarzan of the Apes as an adult (Gordon Griffith played him as a child in the same movie). He portrayed the character twice more—in The Romance of Tarzan (also 1918) and in the 1921 serial The Adventures of Tarzan.

Following the end of the silent movie era, Elmo left Hollywood and tried his hand at mining. In the late 1930s, he returned to the film industry, most often employed as an extra. He appeared, uncredited, in two Tarzan films in the 1940s—as a circus roustabout in Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942), and as a fisherman repairing his net in Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949).

Final Role

His final work saw him also playing a brief, uncredited role in the 1952 film Carrie, starring Laurence Olivier. According to Tarzan of the Movies, by Gabe Essoe, Lincoln was quite proud of his work in this film, as he was an admirer of Olivier.

Death

Lincoln died of a heart attack on June 27, 1952 at age 63. He is interred in a niche at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7042 Hollywood Boulevard.

Biography

In 2001, his daughter Marci'a Lincoln Rudolph told his story in her book, My Father, Elmo Lincoln: The Original Tarzan (ISBN 1-58690-000-5).

Partial filmography

• The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913 short)
• Judith of Bethulia (1913)
• Brute Force (1914)
• Buckshot John (1915)
• Birth of a Nation (1915) (uncredited)
• The Slave Girl (1915 short)
• Hoodoo Ann (1916)
• Intolerance (1916)
• Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916)
• The Fatal Glass of Beer (1916)
• The Bad Boy (1917)
• Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1917)
• Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
• The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918)
• The Romance of Tarzan (1918)
• Treasure Island (1918)
• The Greatest Thing in Life (1918)
• The Fall of Babylon (re-edited from Intolerance) (1919)
• Elmo the Mighty (1919)
• The Flaming Disc (1920)
• Elmo the Fearless (1921)
• The Adventures of Tarzan (1921)
• Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922)
• King of the Jungle (1927 serial)
• Union Pacific (1939) (uncredited)
• Wyoming Outlaw (1939)
• Colorado Sunset (1939)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) (uncredited)
• Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942) (uncredited)
• The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) (uncredited)
• When the Lights Go on Again (1944)
• The Man Who Walked Alone (1945)
• Rolling Home (1947)
• A Double Life (1947) (uncredited)
• Tap Roots (1948) (uncredited)
• Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949) (uncredited)
• Hollywood Story (1951) (uncredited)
• Carrie (1952) (uncredited)

External links

• Elmo Lincoln at the Internet Movie Database