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Mar 30, 1994 · Services have been set for Carol Elaine Johnson, wife of Academy Award-winning actor Ben Johnson, who died Sunday following an extended illness at an Arizona hospice center. She was 73.
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During the spring of 1996, Arizona Highways magazine editor Bob Early asked photographer Gary Johnson and me to join legendary actor Ben Johnson, on a sentimental journey at the place where Hollywood director John Ford had “discovered” him in the late 1940s while filming Fort Apache, one of his Cavalry Trilogy. Gary and I met in the early 1970s whe...
Ben was born in 1918 in Foraker, Oklahoma, on the Osage Indian Reservation of Irish and Osage ancestry. His father, Ben Sr., was a rancher in Osage County and a three-time world champion rodeo cowboy. He credits Howard Hughes for bringing him out to Hollywood from Oklahoma in the late 1930s. Hughes had bought some horses from a ranch where Ben work...
Ben got his first starring role in a Western with Harry Carey Jr. and Joanne Dru a year later in Wagon Master, filmed of course, in Monument Valley. Critics called it one of Ford’s masterpieces. Ben went on to become one of Hollywood’s most popular actors, playing everything from a devil-may-care cowboy, bad man and gunman to curmudgeon and old-tim...
Ben enjoyed visiting the various places in Monument Valley, reminiscing about something that happened during the shoot. One time while filming Wagon Master, he was being pursued by a band of Navajo warriors. “I rode to this bluff and was supposed to turn and ride along the ridge, but the horse I was on got a case of cold jaw and wouldn’t respond to...
Over the next 40 years, Ben starred or appeared in hundreds of films and television shows, mostly Westerns. He took a break from the movies in 1953 to rodeo and won the PRCA World Team Roping Championship and was inducted into the Pro Rodeo Hall of fame in 1973. For many years Ben sponsored pro-celebrity rodeos to benefit children’s charities, prim...
For nearly six decades, from his first uncredited role stunt role in the 1939 RKO-Western The Fighting Gringo, to his last starring role as Arthur Cotton in The Evening Star, a 1996 adaptation of the Larry McMurtry novel, Ben Johnson was a fan favorite. He appeared in over 300 movies and television series, most often cast as a cowboy. Marshall Trim...
Apr 9, 1996 · In 1990, he was honored at the Ben Johnson Celebrity Rodeo at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. His wife of 54 years, Carol, died early last year.
Apr 9, 1996 · The actor died of a heart attack in a Mesa, Ariz., hospital after collapsing while seeing his mother at a suburban Phoenix retirement home where they both lived.
Dec 22, 2023 · Ben Johnson is married to Jessica, with whom he shares a deeply affectionate and harmonious bond. Over the years, their love has grown stronger, resulting in the joyous addition of their two children: a daughter named Emory and a son named Kennedy.
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Apr 9, 1996 · Johnson was preceded in death by his wife, Carol Johnson. Survivors include his mother, Ollie Rider; sister Helen Christenson; five nephews, John and Ben Miller, Dale Christenson Jr., Ben Christenson and Larry Christenson; and niece Ann Whitehorn.
Mar 11, 2016 · The legendary cowboy actor was making a sentimental journey to the place where Hollywood Director John Ford had “discovered” him, while filming one of his “Cavalry Triads,” 1948’s Fort Apache. I had ridden as a horseback historian in Donnelly’s trail rides for about 10 years, starting in the 1980s.
