Van Johnson
A freckled-faced boy-next-door, actor Van Johnson became a big star at MGM in the 1940s and 1950s when he came to Hollywood from the Broadway chorus. He cornered the market on genial guys who romanced nice girls like June Allyson and Esther Williams in comedies and musicals, which made him a top box office draw during the war and into post-war America. On occasion, he was given a chance to show some dramatic grit in war pictures like "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo" (1944) and "Battleground" (1949). Johnson's career faded in the early 1960s, though he remained active on television and theater until the early 1990s. Johnson's air of sympathetic concern, boyish energy and sometimes larger-than-life acting style ensured his enduring status as one of the most well-liked symbols of Hollywood's Golden Age.
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Van Johnson
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Clowning Around | Mr. Ranthow (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Days to a Kill | Comm. Howard (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Delta Force Commando II | Gen. McCailland (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet |
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Killer Crocodile | Judge (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Going Hollywood: The War Years | Host | - | 1988 |
93% |
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The Purple Rose of Cairo | Larry (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet |
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Assassinio al cimitero etrusco (Scorpion with Two Tails) (Murder in an Etruscan Cemetery) | Unknown (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Scorpion With Two Tails | Mulligan (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet |
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The Kidnapping of the President | Vice President Ethan Richards (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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The Concorde Affair | Captain Scott (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet |
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From Corleone to Brooklyn | Sturges (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Superdome | Chip Green (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Getting Married | Phil Lawrence (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Girl on the Late, Late Show | Johnny Leverett (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Call Her Mom | President Chester Hardgrove (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wheeler and Murdoch | Buddy Shore (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eye of the Spider | Unknown (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | San Francisco International | Lester Scott (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Company of Killers | Sam Cahill (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet |
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The Price of Power | President James Garfield (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brass Ring | Jack Newell (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet |
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Eagles Over London | Air Marshal George Taylor (Character) | - | 1969 |
57% |
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Yours, Mine and Ours | Warrant Officer Darrel Harrison (Character) | - | 1968 |
100% |
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Divorce American Style | Al Yearling (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet |
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The Doomsday Flight | Capt. Anderson (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wives and Lovers | Bill Austin (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Enemy General | Allan Lemaire (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beyond This Place | Paul Mathry (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Subway in the Sky | Maj. Baxter Grant (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Web of Evidence | Paul Mathry (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet |
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The Last Blitzkrieg |
Sgt. Hans Von Kroner/ |
- | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Slander | Scott Ethan Martin (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin |
Pied Piper/ |
- | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kelly and Me | Len Carmody (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Action of the Tiger | Carson (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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The Bottom of the Bottle |
Donald Martin/ |
- | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
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23 Paces to Baker Street | Phillip Hannon (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
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Miracle in the Rain | Pvt. Arthur "Art" Hugenon (Character) | - | 1956 |
80% |
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The End of the Affair | Maurice Bendrix (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Men of the Fighting Lady | Lt. Howard Thayer (Character) | - | 1954 |
86% |
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Brigadoon | Jeff Douglas (Character) | - | 1954 |
70% |
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The Last Time I Saw Paris | Charles Wills (Character) | - | 1954 |
95% |
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The Caine Mutiny | Lt. Steve Maryk (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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The Siege at Red River |
Capt. James S. Simmons/ |
- | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Confidentially Connie | Joe Bedloe (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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Easy to Love | Ray Lloyd (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Remains to Be Seen | Waldo Williams (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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Plymouth Adventure | John Alden (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Invitation | Daniel I. `'Dan'` Pierce (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Washington Story | Joseph T. Gresham (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | When in Rome | Father John X. Halligan (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Too Young to Kiss | Eric Wainwright (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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It's a Big Country | Unknown (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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Go for Broke! | Lt. Michael Grayson (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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Three Guys Named Mike | Michael Lawrence (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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Duchess of Idaho | Dick Layne (Character) | - | 1950 |
67% |
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The Big Hangover | David Muldon (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Grounds for Marriage | Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet |
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Scene of the Crime | Mike Conovan (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mother Is a Freshman | Professor Richard Michaels (Character) | - | 1949 |
78% |
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Battleground | Holley (Character) | - | 1949 |
62% |
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In the Good Old Summertime |
Andrew Delby Larkin/ |
- | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bride Goes Wild | Greg Rawlings (Character) | - | 1948 |
80% |
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State of the Union | "Spike" McManus (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet |
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Command Decision | Tech. Sgt. Immanuel T. Evans (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | High Barbaree | Alec Brooke (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet |
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The Romance of Rosy Ridge | Henry Carson (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet |
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Easy to Wed | William Stevens "Bill" Chandler (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Leave, No Love | Sgt. Michael Hanlon (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet |
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Weekend at the Waldorf | Captain James Hollis (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet |
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Thrill of a Romance | Major Thomas Milvaine (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Men in White | Dr. Randall "Red" Ames (Character) | - | 1944 |
80% |
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The White Cliffs of Dover | Sam Bennett (Character) | - | 1944 |
100% |
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Two Girls and a Sailor | John Dyckman Brown III (Character) | - | 1944 |
100% |
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | Ted Lawson (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Between Two Women | Dr. Randall "Red" Adams (Character) | - | 1944 |
60% |
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A Guy Named Joe | Ted Randall (Character) | - | 1943 |
100% |
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The Human Comedy | Marcus Macauley (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet |
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Pilot No. 5 | Everett Arnold (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case | Dr. Randall "Red" Adams (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet |
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Somewhere I'll Find You | Lieutenant Wade Hall (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | For the Common Defense! | Agent Pritchard (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Born for Trouble | Bert Bell (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant | Dr. Randall "Red" Adams (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The War Against Mrs. Hadley | Michael Fitzpatrick (Character) | - | 1942 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Daniel Hannigan (Guest Star) | 1984 1986 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown (Character) | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of the Unexpected | Gerry T. Armstrong (Character) | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Day at a Time | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McMillan and Wife | Harry Jerome (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McCloud | Dan Kiley (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Maude | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love, American Style | Don (Character) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Doris Day Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970-1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian | Alonzo Worth (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here's Lucy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
72% | 79% | Batman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Frank Dawson (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1953 1955 1960 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | 97% | I Love Lucy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1955 |