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==Death== Sheffield's wife, Patty, said that he fell from a ladder while pruning a palm tree.<ref>{{cite news|title=Actor who played Tarzan's Boy dies at 79|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/obit/2010-10-19-sheffield_N.htm|access-date=May 20, 2016|work=USA Today|agency=Associated Press|date=October 19, 2010}}</ref> Though his injuries seemed minor, he died of a heart attack four hours later on October 15, 2010, in [[Chula Vista, California]], aged 79.<ref name=bell/> He was remembered by the ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' as "the character Boy in the Tarzan movies of the 1930s and β40s."<ref>{{Cite news |agency=Associated Press |date=2010-10-20 |title=Johnny Sheffield, 'Boy' in Tarzan Movies, Dies at 79 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/arts/20sheffield.html |access-date=2025-03-10 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Johnny Sheffield: Child actor who played 'Boy' to Johnny Weissmuller's |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/johnny-sheffield-child-actor-who-played-boy-to-johnny-weissmullers-tarzan-2112117.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20220707074852/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/johnny-sheffield-child-actor-who-played-boy-to-johnny-weissmullers-tarzan-2112117.html |archive-date=2022-07-07 |access-date=2025-03-10 |work=The Independent |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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