*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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...