The Last Picture Show
1971
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Apr 9, 1996 · Ben Johnson, rugged Western actor of about 300 films who won an Academy Award as the movie theater owner in “The Last Picture Show,” died Monday He was 75.
Sep 23, 2021 · Ben “Son” Johnson Jr. was a cowboy from his earliest years and received his big break in the movies when he was hired to take a shipment of horses from the ranch his father managed in Oklahoma to Howard Hughes’s movie set for The Outlaw in Monument Valley in the fall of 1940.
Apr 9, 1996 · Ben Johnson, rugged Western actor of some 300 films who won an Academy Award as the movie theater owner in “The Last Picture Show,” died Monday He was 75.
Apr 8, 1996 · Biography. "Having Ben Johnson was having the real thing," Peter Bogdanovich once said of the actor who won a Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Sam 'the Lion' in the director's memorable "The Last Picture Show" (1971).
Apr 10, 1996 · Ben Johnson, 77, a champion rodeo performer whose convincing portrayal of a straight-talking westerner led to roles in hundreds of pictures and to the 1971 Academy Award for best supporting...
Apr 8, 1996 · Biography. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ben "Son" Johnson, Jr. (June 13, 1918 – April 8, 1996) was an American motion picture actor who was mainly cast in Westerns. He was also a rodeo cowboy, stuntman, and rancher.
B en Johnson was a rugged western actor probably best remembered for his 1971 Oscar-winning role as cowboy and town tycoon Sam in Peter Bogdanovich's "The Last Picture Show." In all, he appeared...
