I just read an A.P. report that Cheetah the chimpanzee that co starred with Johnny Weismuller in several "Tarzan" movies died on Chritmas Eve at the ripe old age of eighty.

Hard to believe that the last survivor of all of those movies was the chimp.  I only have anecdotal things to say about him but, I will try to vet them.  First off Cheetah was a ladies man.  His antics were rumored to have been enough to make even Myrna Loy blush.  He loved a good cigar too I have read.  As he grew older, like many chimpanzee actors he became less than friendly and was prone to flinging feces at those who he disliked.

He did however live a long time after he ended his acting career.  He spent many years living with Johnny Weismuller on his estate and when Weismuller passed on he moved to Florida.  He never married but was still interested in the ladies.  I don't know if he had children but I saw on sixties version of Tarzan that claimed a "Cheetah Junior" in its cast.

This is a bit tongue in cheek but, in all seriousness, we lose small parts of our lives and for the most part we hardly notice.  I's rekon that most people never imagined that he was still living.  I spent a lot of Sunday afternoons watching Tarzan Theater on KPLR out of St.Louis.  Truth be told, I still watch the occasional Tarzan flick but I prefer the classics, the ones that had the original Cheetah.