Johnny Sheffield

Johnny Sheffield

Johnny Sheffield (born John Matthew Sheffield Cassan) was an American child, teen, and young-adult actor, his screen career lasting from 1938 to 1955. 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. 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. 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. He appeared with many other performers over the years, including Jeanette MacDonald, Pat O'Brien, Cesar Romero, Ronald Reagan and Beverly Garland. He played the childhood version of the title character in Knute Rockne, All American, perhaps the most prestigious film in which he had a role. Sheffield played Boy in three Tarzan movies at MGM, and in another five after the star, Weissmuller, and production of the movie series moved to RKO. Brenda Joyce played Jane in the last three Tarzan movies in which Sheffield appeared. 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. He then made a pilot for a television series, Bantu the Zebra Boy, which was created, produced and directed by his father, Reginald Sheffield. Although the production values were high compared to other TV jungle shows of the day, a sponsor was not found and the show was never produced as a weekly series.

  • Titel: Johnny Sheffield
  • Popularitet: 3.942
  • Kendt for: Acting
  • Fødselsdag: 1931-04-11
  • Fødselssted: Pasadena, California, USA
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  • Også kendt som: John Matthew Sheffield Cassan, John Sheffield
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  • 1939
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    Tarzans Søn

    Tarzans Søn

    6.074 1939 HD

    Dybt inde i junglen finder Tarzan en lille dreng i et nedstyrtet fly og beslutter at opdrage ham sammen med sin kæreste, Jane. Fem år...

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  • 1942
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    Tarzan i New York

    Tarzan i New York

    6.4 1942 HD

    Cirkusfolkene Rand og Shileds kidnapper Boy og tager ham med til New York. Tarzan og Jane må derfor forlade junglen og opsøge storbyen...

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  • 1941
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    Tarzans Hemmelige Skat

    Tarzans Hemmelige Skat

    5.7 1941 HD

    Onde skattejægere kommer til junglen for at finde en guldmine. De sætter Tarzan ud af spillet og kidnapper Jane og Boy, der under tvang...

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  • 1954
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    Killer Leopard

    Killer Leopard

    5 1954 HD

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  • 1947
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    Tarzan og løvejægerne

    Tarzan og løvejægerne

    5.6 1947 HD

    Elefanterne angriber, guderne tøver - junglens herre regerer uhindret! “Der er en guldmine her i landet." En ekspeditionsstyrke har til...

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  • 1943
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    Tarzan sejrer

    Tarzan sejrer

    6.1 1943 HD

    Anden verdenskrig? Den slags er for civiliserede mennesker, ikke for Tarzan. Han nægter at blande sig... lige indtil nazisterne begår den...

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  • 1943
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    Tarzan i Ørkenen

    Tarzan i Ørkenen

    6.1 1943 HD

    Krigen fortsætter, og vores helt krydser Saharas ørken for at finde medicinske planter, som de allierede har hårdt brug for....

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  • 1945
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    Tarzan og Amazonerne

    Tarzan og Amazonerne

    6.3 1945 HD

    Da junglens herre nægter at føre et hold antropologer til en mystisk kvindestamme, gør Boy det i stedet, og det sætter gang...

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  • 1946
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    Tarzan og Leopardpigen

    Tarzan og Leopardpigen

    5.663 1946 HD

    Er det leopardangreb, der er skyld i en række brutale nedslagtninger? Det mener abemanden ikke, og hans instinkter tager ikke fejl - han...

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  • 1941
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    Million Dollar Baby

    Million Dollar Baby

    6 1941 HD

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  • 1949
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    Bomba, the Jungle Boy

    Bomba, the Jungle Boy

    5.583 1949 HD

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  • 1952
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    African Treasure

    African Treasure

    6.9 1952 HD

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  • 2006
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    Charlie Chan's Lucky Director: H. Bruce Humberstone

    Charlie Chan's Lucky Director: H. Bruce Humberstone

    1 2006 HD

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  • 1950
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    The Lost Volcano

    The Lost Volcano

    5.3 1950 HD

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  • 1953
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    Safari Drums

    Safari Drums

    5.2 1953 HD

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  • 1940
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    Lucky Cisco Kid

    Lucky Cisco Kid

    5.6 1940 HD

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  • 1949
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    Bomba on Panther Island

    Bomba on Panther Island

    5 1949 HD

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  • 1951
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    Elephant Stampede

    Elephant Stampede

    5.1 1951 HD

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  • 1950
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    Bomba and the Hidden City

    Bomba and the Hidden City

    4.6 1950 HD

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  • 1951
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    The Lion Hunters

    The Lion Hunters

    5.3 1951 HD

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  • 1952
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    Bomba and the Jungle Girl

    Bomba and the Jungle Girl

    5.286 1952 HD

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  • 1954
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    The Golden Idol

    The Golden Idol

    4.2 1954 HD

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  • 1955
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    Lord of the Jungle

    Lord of the Jungle

    6.4 1955 HD

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  • 1939
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    Babes in Arms

    Babes in Arms

    6.4 1939 HD

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  • 1940
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    Little Orvie

    Little Orvie

    7 1940 HD

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  • 1940
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    Knute Rockne All American

    Knute Rockne All American

    6 1940 HD

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  • 1938
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    The Man on the Rock

    The Man on the Rock

    6 1938 HD

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  • 2004
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    Der einzig wahre Tarzan

    Der einzig wahre Tarzan

    7.2 2004 HD

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