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
  • Popularität: 3.02
  • Bekannt für: Acting
  • Geburtstag: 1931-04-11
  • Geburtsort: Pasadena, California, USA
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  • Auch bekannt als: John Matthew Sheffield Cassan, John Sheffield
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  • 1942
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    Tarzans Abenteuer in New York

    Tarzans Abenteuer in New York

    6.4 1942 HD

    Tarzans Sohn Boy wird von einer skrupellosen Bande von Tierfänger entführt. Der Junge soll in einem amerikanischen Zirkus zur Schau...

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  • 1939
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    Tarzan und sein Sohn

    Tarzan und sein Sohn

    6.1 1939 HD

    Als Schimpanse Cheeta in den Trümmern eines abgestürzten Flugzeuges einen kleinen Jungen findet, nehmen sich Tarzan und Jane des...

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  • 1941
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    Tarzans geheimer Schatz

    Tarzans geheimer Schatz

    5.7 1941 HD

    Tarzan, Jane und Boy lernen die Männer einer Expedition kennen. Während die einen Tarzan wohlgesonnen sind, erfahren die anderen von Boy,...

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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 wird gejagt

    Tarzan wird gejagt

    5.6 1947 HD

    "Das Gold dieses Landes läuft auf vier Beinen." Und dieses Gold will sich eine Gruppe von Weißen sichern, die wilde Tiere für Zoos...

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  • 1943
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    Tarzan und die Nazis

    Tarzan und die Nazis

    6.1 1943 HD

    Als Boy beim Durchstreifen des Dschungels die Stadt Pallandria entdeckt, stürzt er beinahe von einer Klippe. Zandra, die schöne Tochter des...

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  • 1945
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    Tarzan und die Amazonen

    Tarzan und die Amazonen

    6.3 1945 HD

    Als der Herr des Urwalds sich weigert, eine Gruppe von Anthropologen zu einem bislang unerforschten Gebiet namens Palmyra, bewohnt von einem...

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  • 1946
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    Tarzan und das Leopardenweib

    Tarzan und das Leopardenweib

    5.663 1946 HD

    Hat tatsächlich ein Leopard die brutal zugerichteten Opfer auf dem Gewissen? Der Affenmensch glaubt nicht daran - und wieder einmal kommt er...

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  • 1943
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    Tarzan, Bezwinger der Wüste

    Tarzan, Bezwinger der Wüste

    6.1 1943 HD

    Während des 2. Weltkrieges ist Jane in England, um Verwundete zu pflegen. Sie bittet Tarzan, etwas von seiner Dschungelmedizin, die er aus einem...

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  • 1941
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    Der Dollarregen

    Der Dollarregen

    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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    Musik ist unsere Welt

    Musik ist unsere Welt

    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

    Die glorreiche und tragische Geschichte des amerikanischen Athleten und Schauspielers Johnny Weissmuller (1904-84), olympischer Schwimmer,...

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