P. Dempsey Tabler

{{short description|American actor}}

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| name = P. Dempsey Tabler

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| birth_name = Perce Dempsey Tabler

| birth_date = {{birth date|1876|11|23}}

| birth_place = Tennessee, US

| death_date = {{death date and age|1956|6|7|1876|11|23}}

| death_place = San Francisco, California

}}

Perce Dempsey Tabler (November 23, 1876 – June 7, 1956) was a Tennessee-born opera singer, athlete,{{cite book|last1=Harmon|first1=Jim|last2=Glut|first2=Donald F.|title=The great movie serials: their sound and fury|edition=Illustrated|year=1972|publisher=Doubleday|page=122}} businessman and actor, remembered for being the third actor to portray Tarzan in films.

His sole outing in the role came in the 1920 movie serial The Son of Tarzan,{{cite news|title=Many actors have swung through Tarzan role|date=June 25, 1999|work=Chicago Sun-Times|quote=Around 1920-21 there was a regular Tarzan gridlock in movieland, with the release of Elmo's "Tarzan's Adventure" as well as "Revenge of Tarzan"...and "Son of Tarzan," featuring the impressively named P. Dempsey Tabler as Tarzan.}} based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel of the same name, which focused on Korak, the son of Tarzan and Jane.

Following The Son of Tarzan, Tabler made only one more film, 1923's Spawn of the Desert.{{cite book|editor=Kenneth White Munden|title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1|year=1997|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520209695|page=752}}