Technically, the very first person to appear as Tarzan and credited as such, was Gordon Griffith, who played the child Tarzan in 1918's Tarzan of the Apes. Elmo Lincoln (Otto Elmo Linkenhelt)...
Tarzan and his Mate 1934 with Johnny Weissmuller and his mate Maureen O'Sullivan. There is an underwater nude scene ... Maureen O'Sullivan said in an interview shortly before her death, in 1998, that...