Barker once remarked, that now he knew why Weissmuller had trouble with his voice
jumping up two octaves : "It comes from trying to hold your stomach in all the time."
Barker, as well as Weissmuller were the only two actors who were able to emulate the
contrived call from 1932 on their own.

Barker asked Weissmuller how he ever managed to work so
easily with the chimps, who at times could be quite vicious.
Weissmuller replied: "See that BIG knife they give you.
The first time you get introduced to a new chimp, take out the knife
and hit him over the head with it, as hard as you can and he
will never forget."

Barker made five low budget movies for Lesser:

TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN (1948)

TARZAN AND THE SLAVE GIRL (1949)

TARZAN'S PERIL (1950),
TARZAN'S SAVAGE FURY (1951),
and
TARZAN AND THE SHE-DEVIL (1952)

Lex "Back Breaker" Barker

"TARZAN'S PERIL" (1950), was the first Tarzan film to be shot in Africa,
and was being shot in color. However, half the film was ruined on location,
and it was converted to black & white.

    
Brenda Joyce                       Joyce McKenzie                        Vanessa Brown

Virginia Huston

    
Tarzan's Savage Fury (1951), re-introduced a boy named Joey (not "boy"),
in the form of the athletic Tommy Carlton pictured above with Lex and Dorthy Hart.
This was Tommy's only shot and did not re-appear in Lex's next Tarzan feature.

LEX & HIS LADIES

Having higher aspirations, Barker, who was probably one of the better
Tarzan actors, and the one time husband of Lana Turner and Arlene Dahl,
decided he would move on to do better things.

After 16 more films, mostly westerns, and disillusioned by his career, he
moved to Europe in 1957 (he spoke French, Spanish, Italian and German).
He went on to make more than 50 films all over the world in
Brazil, Germany, Spain, Yugoslavia, Italy, Lebanon and France.
He became very popular in Germany because of his role as "Old Shatterhand",
"Kara Ben Nemsi" and "Dr. Karl Sternau" in the movies based on books written
by Karl May, who is a very popular author of adventure literature in Germany.

  
Lex Barker as "Old Shatterhand" & Pierre Brice as "Winnetou".
Lex Barker died on the streets of New York, from a heart attack,
three days after his 54th birthday. He had returned to America
with the hopes of making a comeback.