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Dr. Zaius is a fictional character in the Pierre Boulle novel Planet of the Apes, and the film series and television series based upon it. Pierre Boulle ( 20 February, 1912 – 30 January, 1994) was a French Novelist largely known for two famous works Planet of the Apes is a novel by Pierre Boulle, originally published in 1963 in French as La Planète des singes. Planet of the Apes is a 1968 Science fiction / thriller film directed by Franklin J Planet of the Apes was a short-lived American Science fiction Television series that aired on Friday evenings at 800 ( Eastern) on (In Boulle's novel, his honorific was "Mi", a term in the Ape language. ) He is an orangutan and the main antagonist of the story. The orangutans are two Species of great apes known for their intelligence long arms and reddish-brown hair Zaius was portrayed in the first and second films of the series by actor Maurice Evans, in the later television series by Booth Colman, and voiced in the animated series by Richard Blackburn. Maurice Herbert Evans ( June 3, 1901 - March 12, 1989) was an English Actor who became a US citizen in 1941 Booth Colman (born March 8, 1923) is a film television and stage actor Sir Richard Arthur Blackburn OBE ( 26 July 1918 &ndash 1 October 1987) was a judge prominent legal academic and former military officer

Zaius serves a dual role in Ape society, as Minister of Science in charge of advancing ape knowledge, and also as Chief Defender of the Faith. In the latter role, he has access to ancient scrolls and other information not given to the ape masses. Zaius knows the true origins of the ape society, how mankind fell as the dominant species, and the reasons why the Forbidden Zone is so regarded, and he blames human nature for it all. The Forbidden Zone in the Planet of the Apes movie series is the barren lifeless area declared off-limits to all apes Zaius prefers a stagnant, imperfect, faith-based ape culture that keeps humans in check, to the open, scientific, human-curious one proposed by Cornelius and Zira's generation, while the idea of an intelligent human (such as Taylor) threatening the balance of things frightens him deeply. In the United States of America, the term faith-based is used to describe organizations that are religious in nature and distinguish those organizations from government Sequels Beneath the Planet of the Apes shows Zira and Cornelius married and at home (after Zira makes a political spectacle of herself at an ape gathering Planet of the Apes In the opening minutes of the movie Taylor is watching his crewmates enter a state of Hibernation aboard their ship (known noncanonically as the Knowing the destruction that humanity (with the aid of technology) caused in its downfall, he doesn't want even the possibility of a human resurgence.

At the end of Planet of the Apes, Zaius has Cornelius's archaeological findings (human artifacts, predating the Ape society) destroyed, and Cornelius and Zira arrested on heresy charges. Heresy is an introduced change to some system of belief especially a religion that conflicts with the previously established canon of that belief By the second movie (Beneath the Planet of the Apes), Cornelius recalls how Zaius brought them to trial, but then moved for clemency on their behalf. Beneath the Planet of the Apes is a ( 1970) Science-fiction film directed by Ted Post, and the first of four sequels to 1968 's A pardon is the forgiveness of a crime and the penalty associated with it When Zaius leaves on a military expedition with General Ursus to explore the Forbidden Zone, Zaius trusts them both to continue his work. (In the novelization of Beneath, they instead begin a revolt, once the gorilla army is gone. ) Zaius meets Taylor once more, in a showdown between the gorillas and a mutant human race living underground in the Zone. A mutant is an individual organism or new genetic character arising or resulting from an instance of Mutation, which is a base-pair sequence change within the DNA Taylor was trying to keep the mutant humans from activating a doomsday bomb, and was shot several times in the process by gorilla troops. Wounded and dying, Taylor begs Zaius to help him stop the bomb; when Zaius refuses (declaring "Man is evil - capable of nothing but destruction!"), Taylor deliberately activates the bomb in his last moments, ironically realizing Zaius's worst fears, as the Earth is destroyed.

During the third movie (Escape from the Planet of the Apes) Cornelius relates how he learned the truth about humans and apes from reading secret scrolls. Escape from the Planet of the Apes is a 1971 Science fiction film starring Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, and Bradford Dillman Cornelius presumably had access to these while working for Dr. Zaius (or after his departure), or perhaps was granted access by Zaius as a consolation for the loss of his archaeological work.

In the television series, Zaius serves as a government official, with authority over all the humans in his district. The young chimpanzee Galen becomes his new assistant, but becomes a fugitive with two human astronauts, fleeing from Zaius and his enforcer, General Urko.

In the animated series, Zaius again serves as a government official, who holds influence within the Ape Senate, and has authority over both Cornelius and Zira, and their scientific enterprises, as well as General Urko and his military.

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