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Thursday, December 29, 2011

'Tarzan's Chimpanzee' Cheetah Dies Aged 80

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Cheetah the chimpanzee, who acted in classic Tarzan movies in the early 1930s, died of kidney failure last Saturday at Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor, Florida, USA. He had acted alongside Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan in Tarzan films from 1932-34, it claimed. Sometime around 1960, Cheetah came to the sanctuary from Weissmuller's estate in Ocala.

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