Yahoo News Tarzan director Robert Day dies aged 94
British director Robert Day, who was best known for his work across five Tarzan movies, has died at the age of 94.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Day passed away on Friday (March 17) on Bainbridge Island in Washington state, USA.
Having started his career back in the '50s, Day worked on a number of film and TV projects, most notably on the Tarzan series and the comedy caper Two-Way Stretch, starring Peter Sellers.
After his debut film The Green Man received good reviews, Day relocated to Los Angeles and directed his first Tarzan film, Tarzan the Magnificent, in 1960.
[Tarzan the Magnificent]
It was followed by Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963), Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966), Tarzan and the Great River (1967) and Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1986).
Chairman of Elstree Studios, Morris Bright, remembered Day with an image of him alongside Tony Hancock and Irene Handl as they shot the 1961 film The Rebel.
Sad to hear of the passing of prolific director Robert Day aged 94. Here with Tony Hancock & Irene Handl in The Rebel filmed @ElstreeStudios pic.twitter.com/fqEJFJJgd2
- Morris Bright (@Morris__Bright) March 21, 2017
As well as his work in film – which also included the horror movies The Haunted Strangler and Corridors of Blood – Day worked on a number of TV series in both the UK and the US.
Day helmed episodes in British series such as The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Buccaneers and The Avengers, while over in the US he worked on the likes of The FBI, The Bold Ones, Kojak, Dallas, Matlock and Jackie Collins' Hollywood Wives.
He was married to American actress Dorothy Provine until her death in 2010, and is survived by his son Rob, daughter Roberta and two grandsons.
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