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He Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)(Interview / Herman Brix)

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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 19990618
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Crocodiles. Yes, it was definitely the crocodiles that scared him the most, says Herman Brix, one of the few "Tarzans" approved by the legend's creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs. "There was only a single sharpshooter up in the trees to keep the croc away from me," the actor remembers with chilling clarity even after all these years.

Mr. Brix, who also worked under the name Bruce Bennett, was a silver medalist in the shot put at the 1928 Olympic Games. When he was tapped in 1935 to play Tarzan, the nobleman raised in the jungle, it was for a particular reason, he says.

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