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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. Actor: Tarzan's New York Adventure. 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".
Oct 20, 2010 · Mr. Sheffield beat out more than 300 youngsters for the role of Boy in the 1939 movie “Tarzan Finds a Son!” and went on to co-star with Johnny Weissmuller in seven more Tarzan films.
Oct 19, 2010 · Johnny Sheffield, the former child actor who played Boy in the Tarzan movie series starring Johnny Weissmuller in the late 1930s and ‘40s and later starred in the Bomba, the Jungle Boy...
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,...
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 ...
Johnny Sheffield, who had been coached by his father, won the role of Pud in the Los Angeles production, and later took over the role in New York. When his father saw an advertisement in the...
Oct 18, 2010 · LOS ANGELES — Johnny Sheffield, the former child actor who played Boy in the “Tarzan” movie series starring Johnny Weissmuller in the late 1930s and ’40s and later starred in the “Bomba, the...
Johnny Sheffield. Actor. 1 April 1931 to 14 October 2010. The son of an expatriate actor who worked with Cecil Hepworth, Sheffield found fame in his own right when cast opposite Johnny Weissmuller in Tarzan Finds A Son! (1939).
Jan 20, 2015 · Johnny Sheffield during our interview, in the garden of his Chula Vista home, in 2000 | Leo/Film Talk. Johnny Sheffield was the son of British-born character actor Reginald Sheffield (1901-1958).
