"Due in part to his muscular frame and 6-foot-3-inch [1.91-metre] height, he was quickly signed to replace Lex Barker as Tarzan"[4] by producer Sol Lesser.

[5] Scott's Tarzan movies ranged from rather cheap re-edited television pilots to large-scale action films with high production values shot on location in Africa.

In Scott's later films, after a change in producers, he played a Tarzan who was educated and spoke perfect English, as in the original Edgar Rice Burroughs novels.

[citation needed] Fearing he would become typecast as Tarzan, Scott moved to Italy and became a popular star in epics of the péplum genre (known in the United States as sword-and-sandal), featuring handsome bodybuilders as various characters from Greek and Roman myth.

[7] Scott died, aged 80, in Baltimore, Maryland of lingering complications from multiple heart surgeries earlier in the year.