Given the job of creating Kerchak, the silverback patriarch of the gorilla tribe that takes Tarzan in, Bruce Smith discovered there is precious little film of gorillas in their natural habitats.

Unfortunately, the gorilla family, composed of Kala (Glenn Close ... a death that is hopefully lost upon children viewers — and the death of Kerchak, which causes Tarzan to rise as the group leader.

The story of the vine-swinging wild child Tarzan is an old classic ... snatches the much beloved baby gorilla of Kala (Phaedra Tillery), mate of silverback leader Kerchak (Michael D.

Glenn Close as Tarzan’s gorilla mother Kala, Lance Henriksen (Millennium) as stern gorilla father Kerchak and Brian Blessed (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) as the evil explorer Clayton.

Any theater that stages Disney’s “Tarzan” has a major challenge ... especially with the movements of the gorilla leader, Kerchak, played by Korie Lee Blossey. Blossey wholly embraces the ...

Rob Evan will sub for Shuler Hensley as Kerchak in the Broadway production of Tarzan, beginning on March ... baby is taken under the protection of a gorilla tribe and becomes part of their family.

But this is "Tarzan," not "Death of a Sales Ape ... comes from Louis Dudoussat and Marie Becnel as Kerchak and Kala, the head of the gorilla family and his mate. Beneath all the hair and makeup ...

Directed by Chris Buck and Kevin Lima 1999/88 minutes TARZAN was the final film of the so-called “Disney Renaissance”; after this, Disney movies suffered a slump in popularity. Some say ...

Also worth noting, however physically taxing embodying a Gorilla may be, Pete Munoz (Kerchak) and Samantha Ricker Wvatson (Kala) bring vitality and strength to their roles as Tarzan's mother and ...