Perce Dempsey Tabler (November 23, 1876 – June 7, 1956) was a

Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...

-born opera singer, athlete, businessman and actor, remembered for being the third actor to portray

Tarzan Tarzan (John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adv ...

in films. His sole outing in the role came in the 1920 movie serial '' The Son of Tarzan'', based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel of the same name, which focused on Korak, the son of Tarzan and Jane. Following ''The Son of Tarzan'', Tabler made only one more film, 1923's ''

Spawn of the Desert ''Spawn of the Desert'' is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Louis King and starring William Fairbanks, Florence Gilbert and P. Dempsey Tabler.Munden, p. 752 Cast * William Fairbanks as Duke Steele * Florence Gilbert as Nola 'Lu ...

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References

*Essoe, Gabe, ''Tarzan of the Movies'' (Citadel Press, 1968)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tabler, P. Dempsey American male film actors American male silent film actors 1876 births 1956 deaths 20th-century American male actors