I grew up with the Tarzan movies. I am sure many of you did as well
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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 that he died Friday of a heart attack at his home in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista. She says he fell off a ladder while pruning a palm tree four hours earlier.

Johnny Sheffield beat out more than 300 other youngsters for the role of Boy in the 1939 movie "Tarzan Finds a Son!" and went on to co-star with Johnny Wiessmuller in seven more Tarzan films.

He later played another jungle boy, Bomba, in a dozen movies but quit the business after the last one 1955.

Johnny Sheffield went on to earn a business degree and worked for various companies and in contracting and real estate.

 

Hate to hear that....about "Boy".......

 

I used to love Tarzan movies on tv when I was young. RIP Boy.

 

Saturday mornings b/w watching Tarzan, loved when the natives tied people to their slings and pulled their limbs out.

 

I can hear Tarzan screaming now. RIP in Boy.

 

Watched Tarzan movies all the time. RIP Boy.

 

 

It seems like we lose another icon every week! Barbara Billingsley last weekend.

 

If he was your son, would he be known as bat boy?

 

"Bat Kid" is more like it. But I don't think my lifestyle fits that scenario.