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Dec 13, 2008 · He was born Charles Van Dell Johnson on Aug. 25, 1916, in Newport, R.I. His Swedish-born father was a plumber whose marriage to Johnson’s alcoholic mother ended when she walked out of their home ...
Dec 15, 2008 · Andy Towle December 15, 2008. Hollywood heartthrob Van Johnson died on Friday in Nyack, NY. He was 92. The mainstream media makes no mention of the fact that he was a closeted gay man. It's Merv ...
Van Johnson: The Gay Boy Next Door. If you live in the Los Angeles area, you may be wondering why the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre will devote the evening of Feb. 26 to screen two movies as a tribute to someone called Van Johnson, an old-time actor who died at 92 in Nyack, NY, last Dec. 13. Well, though hardly remembered nowadays, the ...
Van Johnson. Actor. 24 August 1916 to 12 December 2008. A handsome Hollywood leading man who emerged during the war years, Johnson was an engaging presence in light comedies and melodramas. His best work came in such films as A Guy Named Joe (1943), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), The Caine Mutiny (1954) and The End of the Affair (1955).
Van Johnson is a Navy pilot in WWII who has been shot down in the Pacific on a bombing mission. He and a wounded comrade are the only survivors and are lost at sea. As they await rescue, Van Johnson recounts his life story and romance with girlfriend June Allyson.
Dec 19, 2008 · Behind the facade of Van Johnson. Near the end of “The Caine Mutiny” (1954) there’s a startling close-up of Van Johnson in which his pronounced facial scars from a 1943 car accident, so ...
Van Johnson ( Charles Van Dell Johnson, August 25, 1916 – December 12, 2008) was an American movie, television, stage, radio, voice actor, singer, and dancer who is known for his roles in 30 Seconds over Tokyo, A Guy Named Joe and in The Caine Mutiny . Johnson was born on August 25, 1916 in Newport, Rhode Island. [1]
