Elmo Lincoln

American film actor (1889-1952)

Elmo Lincoln was an American stage and film actor whose career in motion pictures spanned the silent and sound eras. He performed in over 100 screen productions between 1913 and 1952, and was the first actor to portray on film novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs' fictional "jungle" character Tarzan, initially appearing in that role in the 1918 release Tarzan of the Apes.

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Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 21 films (1913–1949) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 5 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▲	Title	Creator	Length	Format	Color	Sound
1913	Battle of Elderbush Gulch ▶	Pyramid	20 min.	16mm	B&W	sound
1913	Judith of Bethulia.	Biograph Co	4 reels	16mm	B&W
1915	JORDAN IS A HARD ROAD.	Triangle Film Corp.	5 reels		B&W	silent
1915	The birth of a nation	D. W. Griffith	10		B&W	silent
1916	The Fatal glass of beer	Tod Browning	20 min		B&W
1918	Tarzan of the apes	unknown	31	16mm	B&W	sound
1918	THE ROAD THROUGH THE DARK.	Clara Kimball Young Film Corp.	5 reels		B&W
1918	The Romance of Tarzan	Wilfred Lucas	70 min		B&W
1919	ELMO, THE MIGHTY.	Universal Film Mfg. Co. Inc.	2 reels		B&W
1920	ELMO, THE FEARLESS.	Universal Film Mfg. Co. Inc.	2 reels		B&W
1920	UNDER CRIMSON SKIES.	Universal Film Mfg. Co. Inc.	6 reels		B&W
1921	THE ADVENTURES OF TARZAN.	Great Western Producing Co	2 reels		B&W
1922	QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER.	Metro Pictures Corp.	8 reels		B&W
1923	FASHION ROW.	Tiffany Productions.	7 reels		B&W
1923	RUPERT OF HENTZAU.	Pacific Southwest Trust & Savings Bank	9 reels		B&W
1939	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Films inc.	114 mi	16mm	B&W	sound
1939	The Hunchback Of Notre Dame.	William Dieterle	117 min		B&W
1939	WYOMING OUTLAW.	Republic Pictures Corp	6 reels		B&W
1946	Rolling Home.	Affiliated Productions Inc.	7 reels	35mm	B&W	sound
1948	A double life.	George Cukor	103 min	16mm	B&W	sound
1949	A Double Life	Universal Pictures Co. Inc.	104 min	16mm	B&W	sound