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Van Johnson (I) (1916–2008)


Van Johnson had just started a 7-year contract with MGM in 1942 when he was in a major road accident which left him with a metal plate in his head. Ineligible to serve during WWII, he became America's war film hero, playing the amiable guy next door sent overseas to do his part for America. Johnson also appeared in a slew of MGM musicals... See full bio »

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Filmography

Hide HideActor (122 titles)
1992 Three Days to a Kill
Comm. Howard
 
1992 Clowning Around
Mr. Ranthow
 
1984-1990 Murder, She Wrote (TV series)
Daniel Hannigan / Daniel O'Brien / Elliot Robinson
Hannigan's Wake (1990) … Daniel Hannigan
Menace, Anyone? (1986) … Elliot Robinson
Hit, Run and Homicide (1984) … Daniel O'Brien
 
1990 Flight from Paradise
Old Narrator
 
1989 Killer Crocodile
Judge
 
1988 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series)
Art Bellasco
Killer Takes All (1988) … Art Bellasco
 
1988 Taxi Killer
Capt.
 
1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo
Larry
 
1984 The President of Love (TV movie)
P. Lazlo Plum
 
1984 Glitter (TV series)
Mark Hughes
Pilot (1984) … Mark Hughes
 
1983 Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)
Gerry T. Armstrong
Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1983) … Gerry T. Armstrong
 
1983 Fantasy Island (TV series)
Charles Woodruff
Revenge of the Forgotten/Charo (1983) … Charles Woodruff
 
1983 The Forgotten Story (TV series)
Perry
 
1982 The Scorpion with Two Tails
Mulligan - Joan's father
 
1978-1982 The Love Boat (TV series)
Victor Moncrief / Bert Wilder
 
1982 One Day at a Time (TV series)
Gus Webster
Grandma's Nest Egg (1982) … Gus Webster
 
1980 The Kidnapping of the President
Vice President Ethan Richards
 
1979 Da Corleone a Brooklyn
Lieutenant Sturges
 
1979 Concorde Affaire '79
Captain Scott
 
1978 Getting Married (TV movie)
Phil Lawrence
 
1978 Black Beauty (TV mini-series)
Horace Tompkins
 
1978 Superdome (TV movie)
Chip Green
 
1977 Quincy M.E. (TV series)
Al Ringerman
Snake Eyes: Part 1 (1977) … Al Ringerman
Snake Eyes: Part 2 (1977) … Al Ringerman
 
1976 Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (TV series)
Marsh Goodwin
Chapter V (1976) … Marsh Goodwin
Chapter I (1976) … Marsh Goodwin
 
1976 Rich Man, Poor Man (TV mini-series)
Marsh Goodwin
 
1974 McMillan & Wife (TV series)
Harry Jerome
Downshift to Danger (1974) … Harry Jerome
 
1974 The Girl on the Late, Late Show (TV movie)
Johnny Leverett
 
1974 McCloud (TV series)
Dan Kiley
This Must Be the Alamo (1974) … Dan Kiley
 
1973 Wheeler and Murdoch (TV movie)
Buddy Shore
 
1972 Maude (TV series)
Henry
Flashback (1972) … Henry
 
1972 Man in the Middle (TV movie)
 
1972 Call Her Mom (TV movie)
President Chester Hardgrove
 
1971 Love, American Style (TV series)
Don (segment 'Love and the House Bachelor')
 
1971 L'occhio del ragno
Prof. Orson Krüger
 
1970-1971 The Doris Day Show (TV series)
Charlie Webb
The Albatross (1971) … Charlie Webb
Cousin Charlie (1970) … Charlie Webb
 
1971 Company of Killers (TV movie)
Sam Cahill
 
1971 The Virginian (TV series)
Alonzo
The Angus Killer (1971) … Alonzo
 
1971 Nanny and the Professor (TV series)
Uncle Bob Everett
Separate Rooms (1971) … Uncle Bob Everett
 
1968-1970 The Red Skelton Hour (TV series)
Harry Haynes / Movie Director
Hiring the Secretary (1970) … Harry Haynes
Guess Whose Dinner Is Coming to Freddie? (1968) … Movie Director
 
1970 San Francisco International Airport (TV series)
Lester Scott
San Francisco International (1970) … Lester Scott
 
1968-1970 The Name of the Game (TV series)
Jack Newell / Sullivan
The Brass Ring (1970) … Jack Newell
High on a Rainbow (1968) … Sullivan
 
1969 Eagles Over London
Air Marshal George Taylor
 
1968 Yours, Mine and Ours
Warrant Officer Darrel Harrison
 
1967 The Danny Thomas Hour (TV series)
Charlie Snow
 
1967 Divorce American Style
Al Yearling
 
1966 The Doomsday Flight (TV movie)
Capt. Anderson
 
1966 Batman (TV series)
The Minstrel
 
1965 Ben Casey (TV series)
Frank Dawson
A Man, a Maid, and a Marionette (1965) … Frank Dawson
 
1964 American in Paris (TV movie)
James Devlin
 
1963 Wives and Lovers
Bill Austin
 
1960 The DuPont Show with June Allyson (TV series)
Joe Robertson
The Women Who (1960) … Joe Robertson
 
1960 The Ann Sothern Show (TV series)
Terry Tyler
Loving Arms (1960) … Terry Tyler
 
1960 The Enemy General
Allan Lemaire
 
1960 G.E. True Theater (TV series)
Jimmy Devlin
At Your Service (1960) … Jimmy Devlin
 
1959 Subway in the Sky
Maj. Baxter Grant
 
1959 Web of Evidence
Paul Mathry
 
1959 Zane Grey Theater (TV series)
Frank Gilette
Deadfall (1959) … Frank Gilette
 
1959 The Last Blitzkrieg
Sgt. Hans Von Kroner/Sgt. Leonard Richardson
 
1957 The Pied Piper of Hamelin (TV movie)
Pied Piper / Truson
 
1957 Action of the Tiger
Carson
 
1957 Kelly and Me
Len Carmody
 
1957 Slander
Scott Ethan Martin
 
1956 23 Paces to Baker Street
Phillip Hannon
 
1956 Miracle in the Rain
Pvt. Arthur 'Art' Hugenon
 
1956 The Bottom of the Bottle
Donald Martin/Eric Bell
 
1954 The Last Time I Saw Paris
Charles Wills
 
1954 Men of the Fighting Lady
Lt. (jg) Howard Thayer
 
1954 Siege at Red River
Capt. James S. Simmons/Jim Farraday
 
1953 Easy to Love
Ray Lloyd
 
1953 Remains to Be Seen
Waldo Williams
 
1953 Confidentially Connie
Joe Bedloe
 
1952 Washington Story
Joseph T. Gresham
 
1952 When in Rome
Father John X. Halligan
 
1952 Invitation
Daniel I. 'Dan' Pierce
 
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth
Spectator (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
 
1951 Too Young to Kiss
Eric Wainwright
 
1951 It's a Big Country
Rev. Adam Burch
 
1951 Three Guys Named Mike
Michael Lawrence
 
1951 Grounds for Marriage
Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett
 
1950 Duchess of Idaho
Dick Layne
 
1950 The Big Hangover
David Muldon
 
1949 Battleground
Holley
 
1949 In the Good Old Summertime
Andrew Delby Larkin
 
1949 Scene of the Crime
Mike Conovan
 
1949 Mother Is a Freshman
Professor Richard Michaels
 
1948 Command Decision
Tech. Sgt. Immanuel T. Evans
 
1948 State of the Union
'Spike' McManus
 
1948 The Bride Goes Wild
Greg Rawlings
 
1947 The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Henry Carson
 
1947 High Barbaree
Alec Brooke
 
1946 Till the Clouds Roll By
Bandleader in Elite Club
 
1946 No Leave, No Love
Sgt. Michael Hanlon
 
1946 Easy to Wed
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler
 
1945 Week-End at the Waldorf
Captain James Hollis
 
1945 Thrill of a Romance
Maj. Thomas Milvaine
 
1944 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Ted Lawson
 
1944 The White Cliffs of Dover
Sam Bennett
 
1944 Two Girls and a Sailor
John Dyckman Brown III
 
1943 Madame Curie
Reporter
 
1943 Pilot #5
Everett Arnold
 
1943 The Human Comedy
Marcus Macauley
 
1942 Somewhere I'll Find You
Lieutenant Wade Hall (uncredited)
 
1942 The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Michael Fitzpatrick
 
1942 For the Common Defense! (short)
Agent Pritchard
 
1942 Murder in the Big House
Bert Bell
 
1942 Personalities (short) (uncredited)
 
1940 Too Many Girls
Chorus Boy (uncredited)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (15 titles)
1992 MGM: When the Lion Roars (TV mini-series documentary)
The Lion in Winter (1992) (performer: "I'll Go Home with Bonnie Jean" - uncredited)
 
1968 The Dean Martin Comedy Hour (TV series)
Episode dated 24 October 1968 (1968) (performer: "The French Lesson" - uncredited, "Rose of Washington Square" - uncredited, "Ma Blushin' Rosie" - uncredited, "Blue Skies" - uncredited, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" - uncredited, "You'll Never Know" - uncredited)
 
1967 The Hollywood Palace (TV series)
Episode #4.22 (1967) (performer: "Wilkommen", "Let's Make a Movie")
 
1966 Batman (TV series)
Barbecued Batman? (1966) (performer: "Wait 'Til The Jailbreak, Batman" - uncredited)
The Minstrel's Shakedown (1966) (performer: "The Wandering Minstrel" - uncredited)
 
1957 The Pied Piper of Hamelin (TV movie) (performer: "In The Hall of the Mountain King", "How Can I Tell You?", "Feats of the Piper", "Flim Flam Floo", "Fool's Gold", "How Can I Tell You?" reprise)
 
1957 Kelly and Me (performer: "SINGING A VAGABOND SONG", "BILL BAILEY, WON'T YOU PLEASE COME HOME?", "SIDE BY SIDE")
 
1956 Miracle in the Rain (performer: "I'll Always Believe in You", "Cindy" - uncredited, "La Marseillaise" - uncredited)
 
1954 Brigadoon (performer: "I'll Go Home with Bonnie Jean" - uncredited)
 
1953 Remains to Be Seen (performer: "Too Marvelous for Words", "Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goo' Bye!")
 
1950 Duchess of Idaho (performer: "Let's Choo Choo Choo to Idaho", "You Can't Do Wrong Doin' Right")
 
1949 In the Good Old Summertime (performer: "In the Good Old Summertime")
 
1946 Till the Clouds Roll By (performer: "I Won't Dance" - uncredited)
 
1946 No Leave, No Love (performer: "All the Time" - uncredited)
 
1946 Easy to Wed (performer: "Bonecu de Pixe")
 
1944 Two Girls and a Sailor ("My Mother Told Me" 1944 - uncredited)
 
Show ShowSelf (53 titles)
2000 American Masters (TV series documentary)
Himself
Finding Lucy (2000) … Himself
 
1998-1999 Biography (TV series documentary)
Himself
Spencer Tracy: Triumph & Turmoil (1999) … Himself
Angela Lansbury: A Balancing Act (1998) … Himself
 
1993 Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1992 MGM: When the Lion Roars (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
The Lion in Winter (1992) … Himself
The Lion Reigns Supreme (1992) … Himself
 
1990 The 35th Annual Thalians Gala (TV movie)
Himself - Honoree
 
1990 7th Annual American Cinema Awards (TV special)
Himself
 
1989 Live with Kelly and Michael (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 15 November 1989 (1989) … Himself
 
1988 Great Performances (TV series)
Himself
Bacall on Bogart (1988) … Himself
 
1988 Going Hollywood: The War Years (documentary)
Himself - Host
 
1987 Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (TV special documentary)
Himself
 
1985 The 39th Annual Tony Awards (TV movie)
Himself - Presenter & Performer
 
1985 Night of 100 Stars II (TV movie)
Himself
 
1982 Night of 100 Stars (TV special)
Himself
 
1981 The 38th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV special)
Himself - Presenter: Cecil B. DeMille Award
 
1980 Ryan's Hope (TV series)
Himself
Episode #1.1260 (1980) … Himself
 
1975 The Bob Braun Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 12 May 1975 (1975) … Himself
 
1974 Just One More Time (short)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1972 The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (TV series)
Himself
Episode #3.7 (1972) … Himself
 
1971 This Is Your Life (TV series)
Himself
June Allyson (1971) … Himself
 
1967-1969 The Dean Martin Comedy Hour (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 11 December 1969 (1969) … Himself
Episode dated 24 October 1968 (1968) … Himself
Episode dated 7 December 1967 (1967) … Himself
Episode dated 2 November 1967 (1967) … Himself
 
1968-1969 The Mike Douglas Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 19 November 1969 (1969) … Himself
Episode dated 16 February 1968 (1968) … Himself
 
1968-1969 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV series)
Himself
Episode #2.15 (1969) … Himself (uncredited)
Episode #2.6 (1968) … Himself
 
1967-1969 The Merv Griffin Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 6 January 1969 (1969) … Himself
Episode dated 4 May 1967 (1967) … Himself
 
1968 Here's Lucy (TV series)
Himself
Guess Who Owes Lucy $23.50 (1968) … Himself
 
1968 The Joey Bishop Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode #2.162 (1968) … Himself
 
1968 Personality (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 11 March 1968 (1968) … Himself
Episode dated 12 February 1968 (1968) … Himself
Episode dated 22 January 1968 (1968) … Himself
 
1964-1968 The Hollywood Palace (TV series)
Himself - Host / Himself - Singer / Singer
Episode #5.21 (1968) … Himself - Singer
Episode #4.22 (1967) … Himself - Host/Singer
Episode #3.32 (1966) … Himself - Singer
Episode #2.14 (1964) … Himself - Host/Singer
 
1968 The Hollywood Squares (TV series)
Guest Appearance
Episode #2.113 (1968) … Guest Appearance
Episode #2.112 (1968) … Guest Appearance
Episode #2.111 (1968) … Guest Appearance
Episode #2.110 (1968) … Guest Appearance
Episode #2.109 (1968) … Guest Appearance
 
1968 The Danny Thomas Hour (TV series)
Himself
America, I Love You (1968) … Himself
 
1966 The Milton Berle Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode #1.15 (1966) … Himself
 
1966 The Eamonn Andrews Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode #3.10 (1966) … Himself
 
1965 The 19th Annual Tony Awards (TV special)
Himself - Co-Host
 
1954-1964 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
Singer / Himself / Himself - Singer
Episode #18.4 (1964) … Himself - Singer
Episode #17.25 (1964) … Singer
Episode #16.8 (1962) … Singer
Episode #8.10 (1954) … Himself
 
1953-1963 What's My Line? (TV series)
Himself - Mystery Guest / Himself
Episode dated 30 June 1963 (1963) … Himself - Mystery Guest
Episode dated 12 June 1960 (1960) … Himself - Mystery Guest
Episode dated 22 May 1955 (1955) … Himself - Mystery Guest
Episode dated 22 November 1953 (1953) … Himself
 
1962 Here's Hollywood (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 10 April 1962 (1962) … Himself
 
1962 I've Got a Secret (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 2 April 1962 (1962) … Himself
 
1962 The Jack Paar Tonight Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 21 March 1962 (1962) … Himself
 
1961 What's My Line (TV series)
Himself - Celebrity Challenger
Episode dated 15 January 1961 (1961) … Himself - Celebrity Challenger
 
1961 What About Linda? (TV movie)
Himself
 
1958-1959 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode #3.33 (1959) … Himself
Episode #3.17 (1959) … Himself
Episode #2.25 (1958) … Himself
 
1958 The 30th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Co-Presenter: Best Sound
 
1957-1958 Shower of Stars (TV series)
Himself
Episode #4.6 (1958) … Himself
Skits & Sketches (1957) … Himself
 
1957 The Jack Benny Program (TV series)
Himself
Jack's Life Story (1957) … Himself
 
1955 The Loretta Young Show (TV series)
Himself - Guest Host
Katy (1955) … Himself - Guest Host
The Last Spring (1955) … Himself - Guest Host
 
1954-1955 The Name's the Same (TV series)
Himself / Himself - Contestant
Episode dated 5 May 1955 (1955) … Himself - Contestant
Episode dated 22 June 1954 (1954) … Himself
 
1955 I Love Lucy (TV series)
Himself
The Dancing Star (1955) … Himself
 
1955 The Easter Seal Teleparade of Stars (TV movie)
Himself - Comedian
 
1951 Screen Snapshots: Hopalong in Hoppy Land (documentary short)
Himself
 
1951 Cancer Fund Film Notables Attend Glittering Benefits (documentary short)
Himself
 
1949 Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (documentary short)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1949 The Actor's Society Benefit Gala (TV movie)
Himself - Performer
 
1946 American Creed (short)
Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (23 titles)
2010 Muchachada nui (TV series)
 
2010 The Naked Archaeologist (TV series)
 
2009 The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards (TV special)
Himself (in memoriam)
 
2009 Meet the Carters (video documentary short)
Clip from 'Here's Lucy'
 
2009 The 81st Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Memorial Tribute
 
2009 The Orange British Academy Film Awards (TV movie)
Himself - Memorial Tribute
 
2004 In the Good Old Summertime Intro (video documentary short)
Andrew Delby Larkin
 
2001 Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1998 Junket Whore (documentary)
Himself
 
1997 Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1997 Biography (TV series documentary)
 
1985 That's Dancing! (documentary)
Himself, film clip
 
1982 Showbiz Goes to War (TV movie)
 
1976 America at the Movies (documentary)
Pfc. Holly
 
1974 That's Entertainment! (documentary)
 
1970 The Hollywood Palace (TV series)
 
1969 The Extraordinary Seaman
Himself (uncredited)
 
1968 Mia and Roman (documentary short)
Himself
 
1963 Hollywood Without Make-Up (documentary)
Himself
 
1955 MGM Parade (TV series)
 
1955 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
 
1951 The Cinematographer (documentary short)
Himself (uncredited)
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

Magazine advertisement for American Airlines, in Three Guys Named Mike tie-in. See more »

Publicity Listings:

2 Print Biographies  | 16 Articles  | 1 Magazine Cover Photo  | See more »

Height:

6' 1" (1.85 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

[on Audrey Hepburn] She's a lady. When she participates in the Academy Awards, she makes all those starlets look like tramps. Thank you for your class, Audrey, you're quite a lady. If anyone said anything derogatory about her, I'd push them in the river. See more »

Trivia:

While on the nightclub act tour in 1963, he was forced to stop after having to undergo operations for skin cancer on his left thigh. A second operation to remove a lymph gland was successful in curbing the disease. See more »

Trademark:

Always wears red socks See more »

Nickname:

The Voiceless Sinatra See more »

Star Sign:

Virgo