*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. PALM HARBOR, Fla. — A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s, has ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Cheetah the Chimp, co-star of the 1930s "Tarzan" films with Johnny Weissmuller and one of the world's oldest chimpanzees, has died in Florida. He was thought to be about 80 ...

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 ...

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. (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. At last, I was about to meet a star from Hollywood's golden era, one of the greats from the black-and-white films of the 1930s. Keep your distance, I was told. Five feet back.

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 ...