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Johnny Sheffield (born John Matthew Sheffield Cassan, April 11, 1931 – October 15, 2010) was an American child actor who, between 1939 and 1947, portrayed Boy in the Tarzan film series and, between 1949 and 1955, played Bomba the Jungle Boy.
Johnny Sheffield (1931-2010) Johnny Sheffield. His father was the actor Reginald Sheffield who began as a child star and later turned to character acting. Johnny appeared at age seven on Broadway in the original cast of "On Borrowed Time". When Maureen O'Sullivan wanted out of her Jane role in the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan series, it was ...
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Oct 19, 2010 · Johnny Sheffield, the former child actor who played Boy in the Tarzan movie series starring Johnny Weissmullerin the late 1930s and ‘40s and later starred in the Bomba, the Jungle Boy film ...
Oct 20, 2010 · Oct. 20, 2010. CHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) Johnny Sheffield, who played the character Boy in the Tarzan movies of the 1930s and ’40s, died on Friday at his home here. He was 79. The cause was a ...
Oct 15, 2010 · Johnny Sheffield (born John Matthew Sheffield Cassan) was an American child, teen, and young-adult actor, his screen career lasting from 1938 to 1955. In 1938, Sheffield became a child star after he was cast in the juvenile lead of a West Coast production of the highly successful Broadway play On Borrowed Time, which starred Dudley Digges and featured Victor Moore as Gramps.
Jan 20, 2015 · Johnny Sheffield: “When one door closes, another door opens”. I don’t think anyone who watched Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan films while growing up didn’t envy Boy, a character introduced in “Tarzan Finds a Son!” (1939) when he was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the African jungle who was found and raised by Tarzan and Jane.
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Oct 19, 2010 · NPR's Robert Siegel has this remembrance of actor Johnny Sheffield, who played "Boy" in the Tarzan movies of the 1930s and '40s. Sheffield was 79 and died Monday at his home in Chula Vista, Calif ...
