Johnny Sheffield

Personal Info

Birthday

April 11, 1931

Day of Death

2010-10-15

(79 years old)

Place of Birth

Pasadena, California, USA

Also Known As

John Matthew Sheffield Cassan

John 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 asked, "Have you a Tarzan Jr.