---
name: "Johnny Sheffield"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/johnny-sheffield"
fi1m_id: "johnny-sheffield"
imdb_id: "nm0790788"
tmdb_id: 101740
wikidata_id: "Q962024"
roles: []
born: "11 April 1931"
died: "15 October 2010"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T02:58:23.721092+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Johnny Sheffield

## Identity

Johnny Sheffield

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/johnny-sheffield
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** johnny-sheffield
- **IMDb ID:** nm0790788
- **TMDB ID:** 101740
- **Wikidata ID:** Q962024
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Sheffield, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q962024, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790788/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/101740

Actor. Born 11 April 1931 in Pasadena, California, USA. Died 15 October 2010.

## Details

- **Born:** 11 April 1931, Pasadena, California, USA
- **Died:** 15 October 2010
- **Also known as:** John Matthew Sheffield Cassan, John Sheffield
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Sheffield, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q962024, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790788/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/101740

## Biography

Johnny Sheffield (born John Matthew Sheffield Cassan) was an American actor. He was born on 11 April 1931 in Pasadena, California, and died on 15 October 2010 in Chula Vista, California. He is best known for portraying Boy, the adopted son of Tarzan and Jane, in eight films between 1939 and 1947, beginning with *Tarzan Finds a Son!* (1939).

Sheffield appeared as Bobs in the 1939 musical *Babes in Arms*. He also played the childhood version of Knute Rockne in *Knute Rockne, All American* (1940). Between 1949 and 1955 he starred as Bomba the Jungle Boy in a series of twelve low-budget films. His screen career ended in 1955.

The son of actor Reginald Sheffield, he earned a business degree from UCLA and later worked in contracting and real estate. He was married to Patricia Sheffield from 1959 until his death and had three children.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, catalog.afi.com, latimes.com, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Babes in Arms* (1939), Fi1m 66, as Bobs (as John Sheffield) — [page](https://film.one/film/babes-in-arms.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Lord of the Jungle* (1955), as Bomba
- *Killer Leopard* (1954), as Bomba
- *The Golden Idol* (1954), as Bomba
- *Safari Drums* (1953), as Bomba
- *Bomba and the Jungle Girl* (1952), as Bomba
- *African Treasure* (1952), as Bomba
- *Elephant Stampede* (1951), as Bomba
- *The Lion Hunters* (1951), as Bomba
- *Bomba and the Hidden City* (1950), as Bomba
- *The Lost Volcano* (1950), as Bomba
- *Bomba on Panther Island* (1949), as Bomba
- *Bomba, the Jungle Boy* (1949), as Bomba
- *Tarzan and the Huntress* (1947), as Boy
- *Tarzan and the Leopard Woman* (1946), as Boy
- *Tarzan and the Amazons* (1945), as Boy
- *Tarzan's Desert Mystery* (1943), as Boy
- *Tarzan Triumphs* (1943), as Boy
- *Tarzan's New York Adventure* (1942), as Boy
- *Tarzan's Secret Treasure* (1941), as Boy
- *Million Dollar Baby* (1941), as Alvie Grayson
- *Knute Rockne All American* (1940), as Knute - Age 7
- *Lucky Cisco Kid* (1940), as Tommy Lawrence
- *Little Orvie* (1940), as Orvie Stone
- *Babes in Arms* (1939), as Bobs (as John Sheffield) — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/babes-in-arms.md)
- *Tarzan Finds a Son!* (1939), as Boy
- *The Man on the Rock* (1938), as Napoleon's Son (uncredited)

## Gallery

- ![Johnny Sheffield](https://film.one/media/person/3858546/gallery-7043b9c61864.jpg) Johnny Sheffield — trailer screenshot (MGM), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Tarzan_Finds_a_Son%21_%281939%29_trailer_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Johnny Sheffield](https://film.one/media/person/3858546/gallery-42b712a9c1fa.jpg) Johnny Sheffield — Image via TMDB
- ![Johnny Sheffield](https://film.one/media/person/3858546/gallery-cf9987019991.jpg) Johnny Sheffield — Image via TMDB
- ![Johnny Sheffield](https://film.one/media/person/3858546/gallery-14119b8d07a6.jpg) Johnny Sheffield — Image via TMDB

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