Johnny Sheffield, right, played “Boy” in the Tarzan movies opposite Johnny Weissmuller. (Photo via Wikipedia/public domain) The Lone Ranger had Tonto. Abbott had Costello. And Tarzan had “Boy.” For ...

Tarzan (Mike Henry) searches for a wild boy thought to be a geologist's long-missing son (Ronald Gans). Nagambi: Rafer Johnson. Myrna: Alizia Gur. Buharu: Steve Bond. Robert Gordon directed.

When actor Johnny Weissmuller, the first sound-movie Tarzan, got too old and corpulent to continue playing the loincloth-wearing Lord of the Jungle, the studio cast the boy who played his son, “Boy” ...

He got his big break in Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966), Tarzan and the Great River (1967), and Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968). Also of note were Soylent Green (1973), The Green Berets (1968), ...