A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
as John Clayton / Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Miss Jane Porter
as The Sixth Earl of Greystoke
as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
as Lord Charles Esker
as Lady Alice Clayton
as Jeffson Brown
as Major Jack Downing
as Sir Hugh Belcher
as Captain Billings
as Lord John Clayton
as Willy
as Buller
as Dean
as Sir Evelyn Blount
as Rev Stimson
as Chalky White
as Olivestone
as Tarzan aged 12
as Tarzan Aged 5
as Tarzan aged 1
as Infant Tarzan
as Silverbeard, Primate Father
as Kala, Primate Mother
as White Eyes, Primate Leader
as Droopy Ears, Tarzan's Childhood Friend
as Figs, Tarzan's Follower
as Primate
as Primate
as Primate
as Primate
as Primate
as Primate
as Primate
as Primate
as Iris (uncredited)
as Scottish Laird (uncredited)