PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s, has died at 80. But other accounts call that claim into question.

Cheeta the chimp monkeys around with Johnny Weissmuller on the set of a Tarzan film in 1945. The fictionalized memoir Me, Cheeta: My Life in Hollywood tells the story of filmdom's golden age from the ...

From Lassie and Trigger to Gentle Ben and Babe The Talking Pig, the true-life stories of cinema’s animal stars are seldom told. Fewer still get to tell the tale themselves. So a frisson of ...

PALM HARBOR, Fla. - A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s, has died at 80. But other accounts call that claim into question. Debbie ...

Past ColumnsThere's been an apocryphal story circulating amongst my fellow fanatical movie brethren here in the Tri-Cities that Cheetah, the monkey who starred in all those Tarzan movies back in the ...

Cheetah the chimpanzee has died at the age of 80. The ape starred in several Tarzan films from the 1930s to the 1960s, as well as the television series between 1966 and '68. He was the comic relief ...

Despite not usually having recurring characters in his iconic and beloved comic strip, Tarzan appears many times in Gary ...

PALM HARBOR, Fla. — A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s, has died at 80. But other accounts call that claim into question. Debbie ...

The fictionalized memoir Me, Cheeta: My Life in Hollywood tells the story of filmdom's golden age from the point of view of Tarzan's famous sidekick. Cheeta the chimpanzee is the purported author of ...

PALM HARBOR, Fla. — A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s, has died at 80. But other accounts call that claim into question. Debbie ...