Johnny Sheffield
Actor

Johnny Sheffield Net Worth

Johnny Sheffield was born in Pasadena, California in 1931. His father was the actor Reginald Sheffield, and Johnny made his Broadway debut at age seven. He was chosen by Johnny Weissmuller to play the role of Boy in the Tarzan series, and went on to make six more films in the series. When he was too big for the part, he was picked up by Monogram Studios to play the role of Roy Rockwood Bomba, the Jungle Boy in twelve films between 1949 and 1955.
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Who is it? Actor
Birth Day April 11, 1931
Birth Place  Pasadena, California, United States
Age 89 YEARS OLD
Died On October 15, 2010 (aged 79)\nChula Vista, California, U.S.
Birth Sign Taurus
Occupation Actor
Years active 1939–1955
Spouse(s) Patricia Sheffield (1959–2010) (his death) 3 children

💰 Net worth: $4 Million (2024)

Biography/Timeline

1905

Sheffield was born John Matthew Sheffield Cassan in Pasadena, California, the second child of actor Reginald Sheffield and Louise Van Loon (January 21, 1905 – April 14, 1987). His older sister was Mary Alice Sheffield Cassan and his younger brother was william Hart Sheffield Cassan (actor Billy Sheffield). His father was himself a former Juvenile performer when he came to the United States from his native England. His mother, a native of New York City, was a Vassar College graduate with a liberal arts education who loved books and lectured widely.

1938

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 Digges and featured Victor Moore as Gramps. Sheffield played the role of Pud, a long role for a child. He later went to New York as a replacement and performed the role on Broadway.

1939

The following year, his father read an article in The Hollywood Reporter that asked, "Have you a Tarzan Jr. in your backyard?" He believed he did and set up an interview. MGM was searching for a suitable youngster to play the adopted son of Tarzan in its next jungle movie with stars Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan. When he was 5 years old, Sheffield was taken to an audition where Weissmuller chose him over more than 300 Juvenile actors interviewed for the part of "Boy" in Tarzan Finds a Son (1939). In that same year, Sheffield appeared in the Busby Berkeley movie musical Babes in Arms with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, classmates of his at the studio school.

1949

After he outgrew the role of Boy, the teenaged Sheffield went on to star in his own jungle movie series for Allied Artists. In 1949, he made Bomba, the Jungle Boy with co-star Peggy Ann Garner. In all, he appeared as Bomba 12 times, more than any other character he portrayed. Sheffield appeared in his last movie, as Bomba, in 1955.

1959

Sheffield decided to leave the industry and enrolled in college to further his education. He lived and worked for a time in Arizona. John and Patricia Sheffield were married in 1959 in Yuma, Arizona. They had three children: Patrick, Stewart and Regina.

2010

Sheffield's wife, Patty, said that he fell from a ladder while pruning a palm tree. Though his injuries seemed minor, he died of a heart attack four hours later on October 15, 2010, in Chula Vista, California, aged 79.

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