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 Wed , Easy to Love , State of the Union, Divorce American Style, Elizabeth Taylor Triad, Concorde Affair, Scorpion with Two Tails
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," 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. 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 an immigrant from Sweden and his mother had German-American Pennsylvania Dutch ethnicity. His mother, an alcoholic, left the family when her son was a child; Johnson's relationship with his father was chilly.
Johnson performed at social clubs in Newport while in high school. He moved to New York City after graduating from high school in 1935 and joined an off-Broadway revue, Entre Nous (1935).
After touring New England in a theatre troupe as a substitute dancer, his acting career began in earnest
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