Van Johnson
Gender: Male
Born: 25th August 1916
Died: 12th December 2008
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: MGM: When the Lion Roars, Rich Man, Poor Man
Movies: Action of the Tiger, In the Good Old Summertime, The Caine Mutiny, When in Rome, Yours, Mine and Ours, Command Decision, The End of the Affair, The Last Time I Saw Paris, The Kidnapping of the President, Week-End at the Waldorf, Murder in the Big House, Web of Evidence, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, Plymouth Adventure, Go for Broke!, Battleground, From Corleone to Brooklyn, The Price of Power, A Guy Named Joe, Till the Clouds Roll By, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The White Cliffs of Dover, Duchess of Idaho, Madame Curie, Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows, Brigadoon, Clowning around, The Romance of Rosy Ridge, 23 Paces to Baker Street, Miracle in the Rain, Two Girls and a Sailor, The Bottom of the Bottle, Mother Is a Freshman, Invitation, The War Against Mrs. Hadley, Somewhere I'll Find You, Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant, 3 Days to a Kill, Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case, No Leave, No Love, Men of the Fighting Lady, Eagles Over London, Pilot no. 5, Thrill of a Romance, Three Guys Named Mike, Easy to Love , State of the Union, Divorce American Style, Elizabeth Taylor Triad, Concorde Affair, Scorpion with Two Tails, Scene of the Crime, Wives and Lovers, Superdome, Confidentially Connie, Killer Crocodile, Grounds for Marriage, It's a Big Country, Men Of The Fighting Lady, High Barbaree, Easy to Wed, The Last Blitzkrieg, The Big Hangover, Between Two Women , Too Young to Kiss, 3 Men in White , The Bride Goes Wild , High Barbaree , Remains to Be Seen
Van Johnson (August 25, 1916 – December 12, 2008) was an American film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during and after World War II.
Johnson was the embodiment of the "boy-next-door wholesomeness (that) made him a popular Hollywood star in the '40s and '50s," playing "the red-haired, freckle-faced soldier, sailor or bomber pilot who used to live down the street" in MGM movies during the war years with such films as 30 Seconds over Tokyo, A Guy Named Joe and The Caine Mutiny. Johnson made occasional World War II movies through the end of the 1960s, and he played a military officer in one of his final feature films, in 1992. At the time of his death in December 2008, he was one of the last surviving matinee idols of Hollywood's "golden age."
Johnson was born Charles Van Dell Johnson in Newport, Rhode Island; the only child of Loretta (née Snyder), a homemaker, and Charles E. Johnson, a plumber and later real-estate salesman. His father was born in Sweden and came to the United States as a young child), and his mother had German-American Pennsylvania Dutch ethnicity. His mother, an alcoholic, left the family when her son was a
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