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Kenneth Johnson

Highest Rated: 63% The Incredible Hulk (1977)

Lowest Rated: 8% Steel (1997)

Birthday: Oct 26, 1942

Birthplace: Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA

With his unique, often literary take on popular genre material, writer-producer-director Kenneth Johnson became one of the more successful players in the television industry during the 1970s and 1980s. A story contribution to the hit adventure series "The Six Million Dollar Man" (ABC, 1974-78) for producer Harve Bennett led to Johnson helming the nearly as popular spin-off "The Bionic Woman" (ABC/NBC, 1976-78). Having gained a solid reputation for handling fare of a fantastic nature, he was next tasked with taking "The Incredible Hulk," (CBS, 1978-1982) from the pages of Marvel Comics to the TV screen. The show proved another smashing success for Johnson, whose original idea for the allegorical alien invasion saga "V" (NBC, 1982) became one of the biggest ratings winners of the season. He approached similar material, albeit with a different theme, for the TV adaptation of "Alien Nation" (Fox, 1989-1990), another solid performer that was unfortunately doomed by the financial difficulties of its fledgling home network. In addition to several later "Alien Nation" made-for-TV films, the veteran storyteller also wrote and directed the contemporized "Sherlock Holmes Returns" (CBS, 1993) and the Shaquille O'Neal superhero adventure "Steel" (1997). For an entire generation of fans, Johnson remained the man responsible for some of the most exciting television adventures of their childhood.

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Highest rated movies

63% 65% The Incredible Hulk
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43% 54% Short Circuit 2
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20% 45% D3: The Mighty Ducks
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8% 19% Steel
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World of Dracula
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69% The Return of the Incredible Hulk
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Shadow Chasers
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62% Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century
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The Liberators
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Sherlock Holmes Returns
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 68% Don't Look Under the Bed Director - 1999
No Score Yet 62% Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century Director - 1999
No Score Yet 55% Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy Director - 1997
8% 19% Steel Director $1.7M 1997
No Score Yet 50% Alien Nation: The Enemy Within Director,
Executive Producer
- 1996
No Score Yet 35% Alien Nation: Millennium Director,
Screenwriter
- 1996
20% 45% D3: The Mighty Ducks Writer $23.0M 1996
No Score Yet 53% Alien Nation: Body and Soul Director,
Executive Producer
- 1995
No Score Yet 60% Alien Nation: Dark Horizon Director - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sherlock Holmes Returns Director - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet 1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns Director - 1993
43% 54% Short Circuit 2 Director $20.8M 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Liberators Director - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shadow Chasers Director - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hot Pursuit Director - 1984
No Score Yet 89% Senior Trip Director,
Producer
- 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet World of Dracula Director - 1979
63% 65% The Incredible Hulk Director,
Producer
- 1977
No Score Yet 69% The Return of the Incredible Hulk Screenwriter - 1977
No Score Yet 72% An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe Director - 1971

TV

Credit
69% No Score Yet Easy Money Director 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet JAG Director 2002-2005
No Score Yet No Score Yet 7 Days Director 1999-2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hot Pursuit Executive Producer 1985
67% 76% V Creator 1984-1985
58% 90% V: The Original Miniseries Director,
Writer
1983
No Score Yet 74% Incredible Hulk Director,
Producer,
Executive Producer,
Writer
1978-1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bionic Woman Director,
Writer,
Creator,
Producer
1976-1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Six Million Dollar Man Producer,
Writer
1975-1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Adam-12 Director 1973