Gargantua/Wonder Woman

Gargantua is a fictional ape featured on the 1975 television series Wonder Woman. Played by actor Mickey Morton, he appeared in the seventh episode of season one, "Wonder Woman vs. Gargantua!".

Biography
Gargantua was an over-sized gorilla that lived in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the early 1940s. An ambitious Nazi agent named Erica Belgard perfected a conditioning process by which she could not only control the gorilla's actions, but could incite him into a frenzy using visual stimuli. Dubbing the animal Gargantua, Erica believed that she could earn respect from the Nazi high command by proving that her mind-controlled gorilla could defeat super-hero, Wonder Woman.

Eric and her colleague, Hans Eichler, smuggled Gargantua to the United States where he lived at the circus. When the time was right, they used him to abduct a Nazi defector named Conrad Steigler, who had been working with the Allies. Gargantua tossed around a few MPs guarding the hotel that Steigler was staying at, then scaled the wall of the building and leaped through the glass window to abduct him.

Wonder Woman tracked Gargantua and the Nazis to a warehouse, and Erica sent Gargantua to battle the Amazon, enabling them the chance to escape. The frenzied gorilla lunged at Wonder Woman, who evaded his blows.