Ron Ely, best known for playing Tarzan has died aged 86. The news was shared by his daughter Kirsten Casale Ely in an Instagram post.
“The world has lost one of the greatest men it has ever known – and I have lost my dad,” the actor’s daughter, Kirsten Casale Ely, said in her statement.
Ely retired from acting in 2001 but made a comeback to appear in the film Expecting Amish in 2014. He was also an accomplished author publishing two mystery novels.