Johnny Weissmuller News

The Associated Press archives Johnny Weissmuller, right, as Tarzan, Maureen Oi 1 2Sullivan as Jane, and Cheetah the chimp, in a scene from the 1932 movie Tarzan the Ape Man.

A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s, has died at 80.

A Florida animal sanctuary stood by its claim that a chimpanzee that died there over the weekend was featured in the classic Tarzan movies of the 1930s, despite the skepticism of some experts who believed it was unlikely that a chimp could live to be more than 80 years old.

I guess you saw where every little boy's dream pet died the other day. The fabled chimpanzee 'Cheetah,' who starred in all those Tarzan movies back long ago with Johnny Weissmuller, finally croaked at age 80 at the Suncoast Primate Center down in Palm Harbor, Fla.

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