Johnny Sheffield - Turner Classic Movies

About

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Also Known As

John Matthew Sheffield, John[Ny] Sheffield

Birth Place

Pasadena, California, USA

Born

April 11, 1931

Died

October 15, 2010

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Filmography

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Lord of the Jungle (1955)

Bomba, also known as Hastings

Killer Leopard (1954)

Safari Drums (1953)

African Treasure (1952)

Bomba, the Jungle Boy

Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952)

Elephant Stampede (1951)

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Lion Hunters, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) A Friend With A Grievance

Lion Hunters, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) You Think Lions Like That?

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Lord of the Jungle (1955)

Bomba, also known as Hastings

Killer Leopard (1954)

Safari Drums (1953)

African Treasure (1952)

Bomba, the Jungle Boy

Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952)

Elephant Stampede (1951)

The Lion Hunters (1951)

Bomba, the Jungle Boy

The Hidden City (1950)

The Lost Volcano (1950)

Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1949)

Bomba on Panther Island (1949)

Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)

Roughly Speaking (1945)

Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)

Tarzan Triumphs (1943)

Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)

Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)

Million Dollar Baby (1941)

Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)

Lucky Cisco Kid (1940)

Knute Rockne--All American (1940)

Little Orvie (1940)

Babes in Arms (1939)

Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)

Cast (Short)

The Man on the Rock (1938)

Life Events

Photo Collections

Tarzan Triumphs - Lobby Cards

Here are a few Lobby Cards from Tarzan Triumphs (1943). Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Knute Rockne, All American - Scene Stills

Here are several scene stills from Warner Bros' Knute Rockne, All American (1940), starring Pat O'Brien and Ronald Reagan.

Videos

Lion Hunters, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) A Friend With A Grievance After his first scene alone with lions, and a wounded adult male, Bomba (Johnny Sheffield) hurries to see his neighbors, whom he refers to as “Masai” (why not?), all uncredited actors but including Woody Strode in his first movie, in the fifth feature in the Monogram series, The Lion Hunters, 1951.

Lion Hunters, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) You Think Lions Like That? Shortly after he’s secretly freed the lions captured by the relatively benevolent trappers, Bomba “The Jungle Boy” (Johnny Sheffield) encounters Jean (Ann E. Todd, the American, not the English star) who remains calm, and relays his perspective to her following father (Morris Ankrum), in the Mongram programmer The Lion Hunters, 1951.

Lion Hunters, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) The Hunters Have Sent Me Young Woody Strode (as "Walu") in his big scene, which is tiny, with Johnny Sheffield ("Bomba"), caged Douglas Kennedy ("Marty"), Ann Todd (as "Jean") and Smoki Whitfield (Jonas) in the Monogram serial The Lion Hunters, 1951.

Tarzan And The Huntress (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Never Kill For Fun Johnny Weissmuller (title character) happy with Jane (Brenda Joyce) and Boy (Johnny Sheffield), not aware yet of the hunting expedition led by Tanya (Patricia Morison, also from the title) and Marley (John Warburton), flying above, early in Tarzan And The Huntress, 1947.

Tarzan And The Huntress (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Killer Lion Jungle intrigue as the king (Charles Trowbridge) gets shot in a staged stampede, his son (Ted Hecht) distraught, guests (Barton MacLane, Carl Marley, Patricia Morison) alarmed, creepy Suli (Maurice Tauzin) faking concern and Johnny Weissmuller arriving, in Tarzan And The Huntress, 1947.

Tarzan Triumphs (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Iron Bird Come Having explained that Jane's away in England caring for her mother, Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) and Boy (Johnny Sheffield) notice a plane, which turns out to be German and drops radio-man Schmidt (Rex Williams), early in Tarzan Triumphs, 1943.

Tarzan Triumphs (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Making Slaves Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) and Boy (Johnny Sheffield) are chatting with German Schmidt (Rex Williams), whom they've rescued, when they discover neighboring native princess Zandra (Frances Gifford) in trouble, pursued by pith-helmeted Nazis led by Sig Ruman, in Tarzan Triumphs, 1943.

Tarzan And The Amazons -- (Movie Clip) This Is It Jane (Brenda Joyce) mistake's the Amazon bracelet Cheetah picked up from Athena (Shirley O'Hara) as a gift from Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) leaving Sir Guy (Henry Stephenson) and the rest of Jane's friends curious to figure out the significance of the bracelet and find the source in Tarzan and the Amazons, 1945.

Tarzan And The Amazons -- (Movie Clip) Jane's Friends Jane (Brenda Joyce) and her friends sail in to meet Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) and the boy (Johnny Sheffield) who quickly prove all Jane has said of Tarzan as he rescues the boy from a nearby alligator in Tarzan and the Amazons, 1945.

Tarzan And The Amazons -- (Movie Clip) He Is Our Friend "Boy" (Johnny Sheffield) curiously follows Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) as he takes the injured Athena (Shirley O'Hara) back to the Amazon temple where the queen (Maria Ouspenskaya) thanks Tarzan and instructs Athena of her wrong for leaving the temple in Tarzan and the Amazons, 1945.

Tarzan's New York Adventure -- (Movie Clip) Boy Gone Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) and Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) reply to a cry for help from the boy (Johnny Sheffield) which leads them into a Swahili trap leaving them helpless from retrieving the boy before he is taken away on an aircraft in Tarzan's New York Adventure, 1942.

Family

Reginald Sheffield

Father

Actor.

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