The Last Picture Show
1971
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Francis Benjamin Johnson Jr. (June 13, 1918 – April 8, 1996) was an American film and television actor, stuntman, and world-champion rodeo cowboy. Johnson brought authenticity to many roles in Westerns with his droll manner and expert horsemanship.
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Ben Johnson. Actor: The Last Picture Show. Born in Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was a ranch hand and rodeo performer when, in 1940, Howard Hughes hired him to take a load of horses to California.
- June 13, 1918
- April 8, 1996
Ben Johnson (1918-1996) was an American actor who appeared in over 300 movies, including The Last Picture Show, The Wild Bunch, and The Getaway. He also won a world roping championship in 1953 and worked as a stuntman and horse wrangler for many stars.
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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 9, 1996 · Ben Johnson, whose past as a rodeo champion lent realism to his portrayal of western characters and his Oscar-winning depiction of Sam the Lion, an aging pool-hall manager in the elegiac 1971...
