He was the first Tarzan. A former Arkansas peace officer, Elmo Linkenhelt worked in D.W. Griffith's The Battle of Elderbush Gulch (1912). In a fight scene his shirt was partially torn off, displaying his powerful chest. Griffith noticed, called him over, and told him That's quite a chest you have there. Griffith changed the name to Elmo Lincoln and featured him in several of his films. He got the role in Tarzan of the Apes when, a few days after production began, World War I broke out an the ...[Read Story]
The Light in the Window
(1915)