Van Johnson
Born: 1916-08-25 in Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Died: 2008-12-12
Known For: Acting
Biography
Van Johnson (1916–2008) was an American film, television theatre and radio actor, singer, and dancer. He was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during and after World War II.
Filmography
2000
- Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy as Self
1996
- The Boy from Mercury as Game Show Contestant (Archive Footage)
1995
- Roger Moore: A Matter of Class as Self (archive footage)
1992
- Three Days to a Kill as Comm. Howard
- MGM: When the Lion Roars
1991
- Burt Reynolds' Conversations with... as Self
- Clowning Around as Mr. Ranthow
1990
- Delta Force Commando II: Priority Red One as Gen. McCailland
- Flight from Paradise as Erzähler
1989
- Killer Crocodile as Judge
1988
- Taxi Killer as Captain
- Down There in the Jungle as The professor
- Going Hollywood: The War Years
- Bacall on Bogart as Self
1987
- Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
1985
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Art Bellasco
- The Purple Rose of Cairo as Larry
- Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Elliot Robinson
1982
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
- Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
- Scorpion with Two Tails as Mulligan - Joan's father
- Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! as Self (archive footage)
1981
1980
- The Kidnapping of the President as Vice President Ethan Richards
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Gerry T. Armstrong
- From Corleone to Brooklyn as Lieutenant Sturges
- Concorde Affair as Captain Scott
1978
- Superdome as Chip Green
- Getting Married as Phil Lawrence
- Black Beauty as Horace Tompkins
1977
- The Love Boat as Bert Wilder
1976
- Quincy, M.E. as Al Ringerman
- Rich Man, Poor Man as Marsh Goodwin
- Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II as Marsh Goodwin
1975
- One Day at a Time as Gus Webster
1974
- That's Entertainment! as (archive footage)
- The Girl on the Late, Late Show as Johnny Leverett
1972
- Maude as Henry
- Call Her Mom as President Hardgrove
1971
- McMillan & Wife as Harry Jerome
- Eye of the Spider as Prof. Orson Krüger
1970
- McCloud
- Nanny and the Professor
- San Francisco International as Lester Scott
- The Don Knotts Show as Self
- Company of Killers as Sam Cahill
1969
- Love, American Style
- The Extraordinary Seaman as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Price of Power as President James A. Garfield
- Eagles Over London as Air Marshal George Taylor
1968
- The Name of the Game as Sullivan
- Here's Lucy as Van Johnson
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
- Yours, Mine and Ours as Darrel Harrison
- Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows as Father Chase: The 'In' Group
1967
- Divorce American Style as Al Yearling
1966
- Batman as The Minstrel
- The Doomsday Flight as Capt. Anderson
1964
- The Hollywood Palace as Self
- American in Paris as James Devlin
1963
- Vacation Playhouse
- Wives and Lovers as Bill Austin
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Ben Casey
1960
- The Enemy General as Allan Lemaire
1959
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Joe Robertson
- The Last Blitzkrieg as Hans Von Kroner / Leonard Richardson
- Web of Evidence as Paul Mathry
- Subway in the Sky as Major Baxter Grant
1958
- The Ann Sothern Show as Terry Tyler
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- Slander as Scott Ethan Martin
- Action of the Tiger as Carson
- Kelly and Me as Len Carmody
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin as Pied Piper / Truson
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Frank Gilette
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- 23 Paces to Baker Street as Phillip Hannon
- The Bottom of the Bottle as Donald Martin / Eric Bell
- Miracle in the Rain as Pvt. Arthur 'Art' Hugenon
1955
- The End of the Affair as Maurice Bendrix
1954
- Brigadoon as Jeff Douglas
- The Last Time I Saw Paris as Charles Wills
- The Caine Mutiny as Lt. Stephen Maryk
- The Siege at Red River as Capt. James S. Simmons / Jim Farraday
- Men of the Fighting Lady as Lt. Thayer
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Confidentially Connie as Joe Bedloe
- Remains to Be Seen as Waldo Williams
- Letter to Loretta as Self - Guest Host
- Easy to Love as Ray Lloyd
- General Electric Theater as Jimmy Devlin
1952
- Plymouth Adventure as John Alden
- Invitation as Dan Pierce
- Washington Story as Joseph T. Gresham
- When in Rome as Father John X. Halligan
1951
- I Love Lucy as Van Johnson
- Go for Broke! as Lt. Michael Grayson
- It's a Big Country as Rev. Adam Burch
- Three Guys Named Mike as Michael Lawrence
- Too Young to Kiss as Eric Wainwright
- Grounds for Marriage as Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- Duchess of Idaho as Dick Layne
- The Big Hangover as David Maldon
1949
- Battleground as Holley
- In the Good Old Summertime as Andrew Delby Larkin
- Scene of the Crime as Mike Conovan
- Mother Is a Freshman as Professor Richard Michaels
- A Guy Named Joe as Ted Randall
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Command Decision as Technical Sergeant Immanuel T. Evans
- State of the Union as Spike McManus
- The Bride Goes Wild as Greg Rawlings
1947
- High Barbaree as Alec Brooke
- The Romance of Rosy Ridge as Henry Carson
1946
- No Leave, No Love as Michael Hanlon
- Easy to Wed as William "Bill" Stevens Chandler
- Till the Clouds Roll By as Bandleader in Elite Club
1945
- Thrill of a Romance as Thomas Milvaine
- Between Two Women as Dr. Randall Adams
- Week-End at the Waldorf as James Hollis
1944
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo as Ted Lawson
- Two Girls and a Sailor as John Dyckman Brown III
- Twenty Years After as (archive footage)
- The White Cliffs of Dover as Sam Bennett
- 3 Men in White as Dr. Randall Adams
1943
- Madame Curie as Reporter
- Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case as Dr. Randall Adams
- The Human Comedy as Marcus Macauley
- Pilot #5 as Everett Arnold
1942
- Personalities as (uncredited)
- The War Against Mrs. Hadley as Michael Fitzpatrick
- Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant as Dr. Randall Adams
- Somewhere I'll Find You as Wade Hall
- For the Common Defense! as Agent Pritchard
- Murder in the Big House as Bert Bell
1940
- Too Many Girls as Chorus Boy