Lex Barker (May 8, 1919 – May 11, 1973) was an American actor best known for playing Tarzan of the Apes and leading characters from Karl May's novels.

Biographie

Barker was married five times:


Constance Rhodes Thurlow (1918-1975) (married June 27, 1942–divorced 1950). She was a daughter of Leon Rhodes Thurlow, a vice president of the Decorated Metal Manufacturing Company. They had one daughter, Lynn Thurlow Barker (April 11, 1943 – 2010) and a son, Alexander "Zan" Crichlow Barker III (March 25, 1947 – October 2, 2012). In 1952 Constance Barker married, as her second husband, John Lawrence Adams, a descendant of John Quincy Adams.
Actress Arlene Dahl (married 1951–divorced 1952)
Actress Lana Turner (married September 8, 1953–divorced July 22, 1957). In Detour: a Hollywood Tragedy - My Life With Lana Turner, My Mother (1988), written by Turner's daughter Cheryl Crane, Crane claimed Barker repeatedly molested and raped her from the ages of 10 to 13, and that it was after she informed her mother of this that they divorced. Turner ordered him out of the house at gunpoint the morning after she learned of this.
Irene Labhardt (married 1957–suicide in 1962), a Swiss actress. They had one son, Christopher (born 1960), who became an actor and singer.
Tita Cervera (married 1965–divorced 1972, although divorce not deemed legally valid). Voted Miss Spain in 1962, Tita Barker later became the wife of movie producer Espartaco Santoni in 1975 (the marriage turned out to be bigamous) and later still, in 1985, the fifth and final wife of billionaire art collector Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza.