The Lone Ranger had Tonto. Abbott had Costello. And Tarzan had “Boy.” For fans of 1930s and ’40s cinema, that “Boy” was ...

Before there was Michael Phelps or Mark Spitz winning Olympic gold medals for the United States — there was Tarzan. Yes Tarzan, the fictional literary and film character who was raised by apes in the ...

In 1924, a 20-year-old Chicagoan fibbed his way into the Olympics and won three gold medals at the swimming competition in Paris. Johnny Weissmuller said he was born in America but word got out that ...

Johnny Weissmuller, the son of Tarzan film star and five-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, died Thursday of liver cancer in a San Francisco hospital. He was 65. His last few ...