Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
4/11/1931
Place of Birth
Pasadena, California, USA
Also Known As
John Matthew Sheffield CassanJohn Sheffield
Johnny Sheffield
Biography
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 aske...
Known For
Tarzan Triumphs
as Boy
Killer Leopard
as Bomba
African Treasure
as Bomba
Safari Drums
as Bomba
Tarzan's New York Adventure
as Boy
Tarzan and the Amazons
as Boy
Little Orvie
as Orvie Stone
Tarzan Finds a Son!
as Boy
Tarzan and the Huntress
as Boy
Tarzan's Secret Treasure
as Boy
The Man on the Rock
as Napoleon's Son (uncredited)
The Lion Hunters
as Bomba
Million Dollar Baby
as Alvie Grayson
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
as Boy
Bomba and the Hidden City
as Bomba
The One, the Only, the Real Tarzan
as Self
Bomba, the Jungle Boy
as Bomba
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
as Boy
Lucky Cisco Kid
as Tommy Lawrence
Knute Rockne All American
as Knute - Age 7