10.0
10.0
Kelly and Me
1957
as Len Carmody
Van Johnson
Acting
Nationality:United States
Education:Rogers High School
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CommunityBiographyvia wikipedia
Charles Van Dell Johnson (August 25, 1916 – December 12, 2008) was an American actor and dancer. He had a prolific career in film, television, theatre and radio, which spanned over 50 years, from 1940 to 1992. He was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during and after World War II, known for his upbeat and "all-American" screen persona, often playing young military servicemen, or in musicals. Originally a Broadway dancer, Johnson achieved his breakthrough playing a rookie bomber pilot in A Guy Named Joe (1943). Throughout the war years, he became a popular Hollywood star, as the embodiment of the "boy-next-door wholesomeness" playing "the red-haired, freckle-faced soldier, sailor, or bomber pilot who used to live down the street" in such films as The Human Comedy (also 1943) and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944). After World War II, he continued to play similar heartthrob and military characters, equal parts in serious dramas like The Caine Mutiny (1954), and in light musicals like Brigadoon (1954). After the end of his contract with MGM, he transitioned largely into television, though he continued to make regular film appearances in featured and supporting parts, earning an Emmy Award nomination for his performance in the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. He continued to maintain a regular presence in musical theatre, most notably as Professor Harold Hill in the West End productions of The Music Man and Georges in La Cage aux Folles, before retiring from acting in the early 1990s. At the time of his death in 2008, he was one of the last surviving matinee idols of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Filmography (93 movies)
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Mother Is a Freshman
1949
as Professor Richard Michaels
7.4
7.4
The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985
as Larry
7.2
7.2
The Caine Mutiny
1954
as Lt. Stephen Maryk
7.2
7.2
Madame Curie
1943
as Reporter
7.0
7.0
Delta Force Commando II: Priority Red One
1990
as Gen. McCailland
7.0
7.0
Clowning Around
1991
as Mr. Ranthow
7.0
7.0
Flight from Paradise
1990
as Erzähler
6.9
6.9
Yours, Mine and Ours
1968
as Darrel Harrison
6.7
6.7
23 Paces to Baker Street
1956
as Phillip Hannon
6.7
6.7
Miracle in the Rain
1956
as Pvt. Arthur 'Art' Hugenon
6.7
6.7
Battleground
1949
as Holley
6.7
6.7
The White Cliffs of Dover
1944
as Sam Bennett
6.6
6.6
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1944
as Ted Lawson
6.6
6.6
State of the Union
1948
as Spike McManus
6.6
6.6
A Guy Named Joe
1943
as Ted Randall
6.6
6.6
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947
as Henry Carson
6.6
6.6
In the Good Old Summertime
1949
as Andrew Delby Larkin
6.5
6.5
Brigadoon
1954
as Jeff Douglas
6.5
6.5
Murder in the Big House
1942
as Bert Bell
6.5
6.5
Invitation
1952
as Dan Pierce
6.4
6.4
Concorde Affair
1979
as Captain Scott
6.4
6.4
Command Decision
1948
as Technical Sergeant Immanuel T. Evans
6.4
6.4
The Doomsday Flight
1966
as Capt. Anderson
6.3
6.3
Eagles Over London
1969
as Air Marshal George Taylor
6.3
6.3
Slander
1957
as Scott Ethan Martin
6.2
6.2
From Corleone to Brooklyn
1979
as Lieutenant Sturges
6.2
6.2
Men of the Fighting Lady
1954
as Lt. Thayer
6.2
6.2
Easy to Wed
1946
as William "Bill" Stevens Chandler
6.2
6.2
Thrill of a Romance
1945
as Thomas Milvaine
6.2
6.2
The Human Comedy
1943
as Marcus Macauley
6.2
6.2
The Bride Goes Wild
1948
as Greg Rawlings
6.1
6.1
The Last Time I Saw Paris
1954
as Charles Wills
6.1
6.1
The Big Hangover
1950
as David Maldon
6.1
6.1
Easy to Love
1953
as Ray Lloyd
6.0
6.0
Scene of the Crime
1949
as Mike Conovan
6.0
6.0
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
1968
as Father Chase: The 'In' Group
6.0
6.0
Bacall on Bogart
1988
as Self
6.0
6.0
No Leave, No Love
1946
as Michael Hanlon
6.0
6.0
3 Men in White
1944
as Dr. Randall Adams
6.0
6.0
Washington Story
1952
as Joseph T. Gresham
6.0
6.0
The Boy from Mercury
1996
as Game Show Contestant (Archive Footage)
6.0
6.0
Week-End at the Waldorf
1945
as James Hollis
6.0
6.0
The Price of Power
1969
as President James A. Garfield
5.9
5.9
Between Two Women
1945
as Dr. Randall Adams
5.9
5.9
The Siege at Red River
1954
as Capt. James S. Simmons / Jim Farraday
5.8
5.8
Pilot #5
1943
as Everett Arnold
5.7
5.7
Remains to Be Seen
1953
as Waldo Williams
5.7
5.7
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944
as John Dyckman Brown III
5.7
5.7
Go for Broke!
1951
as Lt. Michael Grayson
5.7
5.7
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946
as Bandleader in Elite Club
5.7
5.7
Plymouth Adventure
1952
as John Alden
5.7
5.7
The End of the Affair
1955
as Maurice Bendrix
5.6
5.6
Divorce American Style
1967
as Al Yearling
5.6
5.6
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942
as Wade Hall
5.6
5.6
Three Guys Named Mike
1951
as Michael Lawrence
5.5
5.5
Subway in the Sky
1959
as Major Baxter Grant
5.5
5.5
The Enemy General
1960
as Allan Lemaire
5.5
5.5
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943
as Dr. Randall Adams
5.4
5.4
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
1957
as Pied Piper / Truson
5.3
5.3
It's a Big Country
1951
as Rev. Adam Burch
5.3
5.3
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
1942
as Dr. Randall Adams
5.3
5.3
Confidentially Connie
1953
as Joe Bedloe
5.2
5.2
The Last Blitzkrieg
1959
as Hans Von Kroner / Leonard Richardson
5.2
5.2
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
1974
as Johnny Leverett
5.2
5.2
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
1942
as Michael Fitzpatrick
5.2
5.2
Killer Crocodile
1989
as Judge
5.1
5.1
High Barbaree
1947
as Alec Brooke
5.1
5.1
The Bottom of the Bottle
1956
as Donald Martin / Eric Bell
4.8
4.8
Too Young to Kiss
1951
as Eric Wainwright
4.7
4.7
For the Common Defense!
1942
as Agent Pritchard
4.6
4.6
Action of the Tiger
1957
as Carson
4.6
4.6
The Kidnapping of the President
1980
as Vice President Ethan Richards
4.6
4.6
Scorpion with Two Tails
1982
as Mulligan - Joan's father
4.5
4.5
Eye of the Spider
1971
as Prof. Orson Krüger
4.4
4.4
Duchess of Idaho
1950
as Dick Layne
4.3
4.3
Grounds for Marriage
1951
as Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett
4.3
4.3
Taxi Killer
1988
as Captain
4.1
4.1
Wives and Lovers
1963
as Bill Austin
4.1
4.1
Superdome
1978
as Chip Green
4.0
4.0
Call Her Mom
1972
as President Hardgrove
4.0
4.0
Company of Killers
1970
as Sam Cahill
4.0
4.0
Web of Evidence
1959
as Paul Mathry
4.0
4.0
Getting Married
1978
as Phil Lawrence
3.7
3.7
San Francisco International
1970
as Lester Scott
3.5
3.5
Three Days to a Kill
1992
as Comm. Howard
2.6
2.6
The Extraordinary Seaman
1969
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Going Hollywood: The War Years
1988
Personalities
1942
as (uncredited)
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
2000
as Self
Down There in the Jungle
1988
as The professor
American in Paris
1964
as James Devlin
When in Rome
1952
as Father John X. Halligan
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