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 …

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 …

Oct 27, 2025 · For fans of 1930s and ’40s cinema, that “Boy” was Johnny Sheffield — the fearless, wide-eyed child actor who swung through the jungle on screen and later built a quiet, …

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 …

Born on April 11, 1931, in Pasadena, California, Johnny Sheffield was the son of British character actor Reginald Sheffield (best remembered for his role on the TV series Rocky Jones, Space …

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.

CHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) - Johnny Sheffield, who played the character Boy in the Tarzan movies of the 1930s and '40s, has died at age 79. His wife, Patty Sheffield, told the Los Angeles Times...

Johnny Sheffield's breakthrough came with his casting as Boy in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Tarzan Finds a Son!, where he portrayed the adopted son of Tarzan, played by Johnny …

Johnny Sheffield, best remembered as Boy in the Tarzan movie series and as the lead in Monogram’s low-budget Bomba, the Jungle Boy movie series, died at his home in Chula Vista …

Johnny Sheffield (April 11, 1931 – October 15, 2010) was an American child actor. He won the part of Boy in the 1939 movie Tarzan Finds a Son! after beating out more than 300 other children.