The Lone Ranger had Tonto. Abbott had Costello. And Tarzan had “Boy.” For fans of 1930s and ’40s cinema, that “Boy” was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Johnny Sheffield, who played Boy in the Tarzan pics, died Oct. 15 in Chula Vista of a heart attack after falling out of a tree in his backyard. He was 79. Sheffield started to play Boy in the Johnny ...

YUMA — While it isn't much of a tree in the front yard of the home he owns here, if Johnny Sheffield ever decides he wants to swing from it on a vine, he would be uniquely qualified to do so. That is ...