Cheeta, a chimpanzee who retired to Palm Springs after a supposedly illustrious career in "Tarzan" films but whose Hollywood bonafides were later cast into doubt, died Thursday, said his owner, Dan ...

PALM HARBOR, Fla. — A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s has died at age 80. The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor announced ...

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 ...

RIP Cheetah. Have a cigar and a beer in heaven. I saw so many of those JW Tarzan and Jungle Jim movies on Sunday afternoons in the church basement during the 1960s. 25 cents for a double program of ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Hollywood has been good to its most famous chimp. Cheeta, who became a star in the Tarzan movies of the 1930s and '40s, has celebrated his 74th birthday at a retirement home in Palm Springs. That ...

The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor announced that Cheetah died Dec. 24 of kidney failure. Sanctuary outreach director Debbie Cobb on Wednesday told The Tampa Tribune that Cheetah was ...