RIP -- Johnny Sheffield who played "Boy" in Tarzan movies dead @ 79
Taylor
No one cruised the jungle like Johnny.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-johnny-sheffield-20101019,0,6703159.story
Johnny Sheffield dies at 79; played Boy in Tarzan movies
The child actor later starred in the Bomba, the Jungle Boy series.
After leaving Hollywood, he earned a business degree from UCLA and
eventually went into real estate.
http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-10/56871114.jpg
Johnny Sheffield, bottom, gets a hand from Johnny Weismuller on a
Tarzan set in 1939. (AP Photo / October 18, 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 film series, has died.
He was 79.
Sheffield died Friday of a heart attack at his home in Chula Vista
about four hours after he fell off a ladder while pruning a palm tree,
said his wife, Patty.
"He was a jungle boy to the end," she said, noting that her husband of
51 years wasn't too high in the tree when he fell, but "sometimes he
was way up there."
The son of British actor Reginald Sheffield was 7 when his father saw
an advertisement in the Hollywood Reporter that asked, "Do you have a
Tarzan Jr. in your backyard?"
Brian Watson
"Taylor" <lukeb...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Johnny Sheffield is BOY!
>
> No one cruised the jungle like Johnny.
> http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-10/56871114.jpg
> Johnny Sheffield, bottom, gets a hand from Johnny Weismuller on a
> Tarzan set in 1939. (AP Photo / October 18, 2010)
What's that? Johnny Sheffield's bottom gets a hand from Johnny
Weissmuller...?"
> 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 film series, has died.
> He was 79.
>
> Sheffield died Friday of a heart attack at his home in Chula Vista
> about four hours after he fell off a ladder while pruning a palm tree,
> said his wife, Patty.
SO ironic!
> "He was a jungle boy to the end," she said, noting that her husband of
> 51 years wasn't too high in the tree when he fell, but "sometimes he
> was way up there."
Drugs can do that to a person.
> The son of British actor Reginald Sheffield was 7 when his father saw
> an advertisement in the Hollywood Reporter that asked, "Do you have a
> Tarzan Jr. in your backyard?"
They do now...
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Brian
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Louis Epstein
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: "Taylor" <lukeb...@gmail.com> wrote in message
:> Johnny Sheffield is BOY!
:>
:> No one cruised the jungle like Johnny.
:
:> http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-10/56871114.jpg
:> Johnny Sheffield, bottom, gets a hand from Johnny Weismuller on a
:> Tarzan set in 1939. (AP Photo / October 18, 2010)
:
: What's that? Johnny Sheffield's bottom gets a hand from Johnny
: Weissmuller...?"
:
:> 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 film series, has died.
:> He was 79.
:>
:> Sheffield died Friday of a heart attack at his home in Chula Vista
:> about four hours after he fell off a ladder while pruning a palm tree,
:> said his wife, Patty.
:
: SO ironic!
Waah-aa-aah-AAAH--aah-aah-aah!
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>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 film series, has died.
>He was 79.
Cheetah HATED him.
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