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.
Van Johnson Biography / Wiki
| Name | Van Johnson |
| Also Know | Charles Van Dell Johnson, Ван ДжонÑон |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Newport, Rhode Island, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1916-08-25 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 92 |
| Deathday | 2008-12-12 |
Van Johnson Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Subway in the Sky | Major Baxter Grant | 1959-11-01 | Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his … |
| Battleground | Holley | 1949-11-09 | The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they ready for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men o… |
| Go for Broke! | Lt. Michael Grayson | 1951-05-04 | A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with Japanese-American volunteers. We follow the trainin… |
| Thrill of a Romance | Thomas Milvaine | 1945-05-23 | A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon…. |
| Easy to Wed | William “Bill” Stevens Chandler | 1946-07-25 | When a newspaper accuses a wealthy socialite of being a home-wrecker, she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit. The publication’s frazzled head … |
| Action of the Tiger | Carson | 1957-08-22 | A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble is just beginning when they get there…. |
| Scene of the Crime | Mike Conovan | 1949-07-28 | A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman… that may have been involved in crooked activities…. |
| Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | Ted Lawson | 1944-11-15 | In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Jap… |
| 23 Paces to Baker Street | Phillip Hannon | 1956-05-18 | Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child… |
| Slander | Scott Ethan Martin | 1957-01-18 | A tabloid magazine threatens to ruin a television performer’s career…. |
| No Leave, No Love | Michael Hanlon | 1946-03-10 | A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover his fiancee has married someone else. However, he fal… |
| The Bride Goes Wild | Greg Rawlings | 1948-03-03 | McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and ha… |
| Company of Killers | Sam Cahill | 1970-08-26 | A gunman working for a crime ring is hunted by both the police and his employers after a cop is murdered…. |
| Web of Evidence | Paul Mathry | 1959-04-28 | A World War II evacuee (Van Johnson) returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder…. |
| The Bottom of the Bottle | Donald Martin / Eric Bell | 1956-02-01 | An alcoholic escaped convict asks his Arizona lawyer brother to help him cross the Mexican border…. |
| Invitation | Dan Pierce | 1952-01-29 | A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out…. |
| The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Pied Piper / Truson | 1957-11-26 | The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which … |
| Murder in the Big House | Bert Bell | 1942-04-11 | When a prisoner on Death Row is “accidentally” killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy…… |
| Kelly and Me | Len Carmody | 1957-04-10 | Failing vaudeville performer, Len, is taken under the wing of the German Shepherd wonder dog, Kelly, and a new act is born. Len hopes all his dreams a… |
| When in Rome | Father John X. Halligan | 1952-05-11 | An American fugitive flees to Rome and tries to elude capture by masquerading as a priest…. |
| Washington Story | Joseph T. Gresham | 1952-07-01 | A reporter (Patricia Neal) suspects the “nice guy” image of a respected Congressman (Van Johnson) is all a facade and sets out to uncover the truth…. |
| High Barbaree | Alec Brooke | 1947-05-01 | After his plane is downed in the South Pacific, a Navy flier recounts his life to a co-pilot while awaiting rescue…. |
| The Big Hangover | David Maldon | 1950-05-26 | A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol…. |
| Between Two Women | Dr. Randall Adams | 1945-03-28 | A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital…. |
| The Romance of Rosy Ridge | Henry Carson | 1947-08-04 | A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer’s daughter amid postwar unrest…. |
| The Siege at Red River | Capt. James S. Simmons / Jim Farraday | 1954-05-01 | Cavalry Captain Farraday attempts to prevent the delivery of Gatling Guns into the hands of hostile Indians…. |
| Confidentially Connie | Joe Bedloe | 1953-03-12 | Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up h… |
| Grounds for Marriage | Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett | 1951-01-12 | Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett…. |
| The Enemy General | Allan Lemaire | 1960-10-18 | OSS agent, working with the French underground, ambushes Nazi convoy with high-ranking general, who escapes. Later they take him from a Nazi prison an… |
| The Last Blitzkrieg | Hans Von Kroner / Leonard Richardson | 1959-01-30 | The fanatical son of a Nazi General leads a squad of German commandos, disguised as American Troops, behind the lines in order to sabotage the Allied … |
| Men of the Fighting Lady | Lt. Thayer | 1954-05-07 | M-G-M presents the heroic story of what happened to the MEN OF THE FIGHTING LADY… |
| American in Paris | James Devlin | 1964-08-03 | The owner of a travel agency in Paris tries to help fellow Americans in trouble…. |
| Eagles Over London | Air Marshal George Taylor | 1969-09-20 | The British High Command finds itself in the thick of a huge dilemma when it is realized that they have long been infiltrated by spies from a German i… |
| In the Good Old Summertime | Andrew Delby Larkin | 1949-07-29 | In this musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner, feuding co-workers in a small music shop do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals…. |
| Easy to Love | Ray Lloyd | 1953-11-26 | Two men vie for the heart of a Cypress Gardens swimming star…. |
| Brigadoon | Jeff Douglas | 1954-09-08 | Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village – Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order… |
| Plymouth Adventure | John Alden | 1952-11-28 | During the Mayflower pilgrims’ long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William Bra… |
| The Last Time I Saw Paris | Charles Wills | 1954-01-01 | Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her siste… |
| The End of the Affair | Maurice Bendrix | 1955-02-24 | During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix (Van Johnson), a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles (Deborah Kerr), w… |
| Dr. Gillespie’s Criminal Case | Dr. Randall Adams | 1943-05-08 | In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which… |
| Miracle in the Rain | Pvt. Arthur ‘Art’ Hugenon | 1956-03-31 | Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York…. |
| Mother Is a Freshman | Professor Richard Michaels | 1949-03-12 | Widow Abby Abbott is having serious money problems and has to dip into the family trust in order to pay for her daughter Susan’s college tuition. The … |
| Too Young to Kiss | Eric Wainwright | 1951-11-22 | Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a talent… |
| Duchess of Idaho | Dick Layne | 1950-07-14 | Ellen Hallit is in love with her playboy boss, Douglas Morrison, but is too timid to do anything about it. To help her, her roommate Chris decides to … |
| Three Guys Named Mike | Michael Lawrence | 1951-03-01 | A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman…all of whom are named Mike. When… |
| 3 Men in White | Dr. Randall Adams | 1944-05-25 | Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it’s another diagnosis competi… |
| Dr. Gillespie’s New Assistant | Dr. Randall Adams | 1942-11-01 | The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from…. |
| Remains to Be Seen | Waldo Williams | 1953-05-15 | A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn…. |
| Wives and Lovers | Bill Austin | 1963-08-29 | Husband and wife Bill (Van Johnson) and Bertie Austin (Janet Leigh) and their daughter live in a low-rent apartment. He’s a struggling writer, at leas… |
| The Caine Mutiny | Lt. Stephen Maryk | 1954-06-23 | When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial … |
| Command Decision | Technical Sergeant Immanuel T. Evans | 1948-12-23 | High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties … |
| State of the Union | Spike McManus | 1948-04-30 | An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels…. |
| Yours, Mine and Ours | Darrel Harrison | 1968-04-24 | When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?… |
| A Guy Named Joe | Ted Randall | 1943-12-24 | A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he’s killed on a mission, he is sent back to … |
| Two Girls and a Sailor | John Dyckman Brown III | 1944-06-14 | A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also… |
| Eye of the Spider | Prof. Orson Krüger | 1971-11-01 | A diamond robber, who was left behind in the hands of the police, gets out of prison and teams up with the man who funded the robbery, but who never s… |
| From Corleone to Brooklyn | Lieutenant Sturges | 1979-04-13 | Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York Ci… |
| The Kidnapping of the President | Vice President Ethan Richards | 1980-08-15 | A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic… |
| Personalities | (uncredited) | 1942-01-01 | In this “Romance of Celluloid”, MGM showcases performers whose careers are just starting. Excerpts from their recently released films are included. Th… |
| Taxi Killer | 1988-01-01 | Catherine Hickland plays a taxi driver who is robbed and gang raped. She is then stalked by her attackers who also kill her father played by Chuck Con… | |
| Delta Force Commando II: Priority Red One | Gen. McCailland | 1990-11-17 | Only one enemy has ever beat him. Now he needs her to save his life…. |
| Week-End at the Waldorf | James Hollis | 1945-10-04 | Anything can happen during a weekend at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for … |
| Pilot #5 | Everett Arnold | 1943-06-24 | A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese ‘planes daily. With only one working fighter of their own, and five p… |
| Three Days To A Kill | Comm. Howard | 1992-11-25 | At a Chicago-area naval base, an ambassador is kidnapped. Later, a Navy officer calls his friend Cal for help. A Colombian drug lord is holding the am… |
| San Francisco International | Lester Scott | 1970-09-29 | Pilot for the TV series, stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conred, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, “his way.” In this, two plots run … |
| For the Common Defense! | Agent Pritchard | 1942-06-20 | This Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the war effort. In this case, a US government agent tr… |
| Clowning Around | Mr. Ranthow | 1991-11-26 | Follows a boy who realizes there is more to being a clown, than just clowning around…. |
| The White Cliffs of Dover | Sam Bennett | 1944-05-11 | Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind rom… |
| It’s a Big Country | Rev. Adam Burch | 1951-11-20 | Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios’ best director… |
| The Girl on the Late, Late Show | Johnny Leverett | 1974-04-01 | A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiri… |
| The War Against Mrs. Hadley | Michael Fitzpatrick | 1942-08-07 | Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishnes… |
| Divorce American Style | Al Yearling | 1967-06-21 | After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce…. |
| The Doomsday Flight | Capt. Anderson | 1966-12-13 | A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land…. |
| Down There in the Jungle | The professor | 1986-01-01 | … |
| Getting Married | Philip Lawrence | 1978-05-17 | A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in marriage before she weds another man…. |
| Flight from Paradise | Erzähler | 1990-01-01 | In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe, two … |
| The Price of Power | President James A. Garfield | 1969-12-18 | In 1881 Dallas, an ex-Union soldier attempts to expose a conspiracy of Southerners that killed his father, his friend and President James A. Garfield…. |
| The Scorpion with Two Tails | Mulligan – Joan’s father | 1982-09-17 | An archeologist’s wife has recurring nightmares about ritual killings in an Etruscan tomb while her husband is away excavating a lost temple. After a … |
| The Human Comedy | Marcus Macauley | 1943-03-02 | Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war…. |
| Till the Clouds Roll By | Bandleader in Elite Club | 1946-12-05 | Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists,… |
| Killer Crocodile | Judge | 1989-07-30 | A group of environmentalists arrives at a faraway tropical delta where toxic waste is being dumped. However the water also hides a giant crocodile. Th… |
| Superdome | Chip Green | 1978-01-09 | It’s Superbowl. And there’s a lot of drama, one of the players, Dave Wolecki, has been so preoccupied with the game and if his bum knee will hold out … |
| Call Her Mom | President Hardgrove | 1972-02-15 | A sexy waitress becomes a house mother in a fraternity house and involves the college in a nationwide women’s lib controversy…. |
| Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows | Father Chase: The ‘In’ Group | 1968-04-10 | Mother Superior of St. Francis Academy is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls on a bus trip across the country…. |
| Somewhere I’ll Find You | Wade Hall | 1942-08-27 | Brothers feud over a girl they both fall for while covering World War II…. |
| Bacall on Bogart | Himself | 1988-03-13 | Lauren Bacall tells the story of her late husband Humphrey Bogart, presenting clips from his movies and interview clips with his peers…. |
| The Purple Rose of Cairo | Larry | 1985-03-01 | Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. … |
| Madame Curie | Reporter | 1943-12-16 | Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concern… |
| Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! | Self (archive footage) | 1982-01-01 | A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s…. |
| Concorde Affair | Captain Scott | 1979-03-23 | A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline’s plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have th… |
| Too Many Girls | Chorus Boy | 1940-10-08 | Mr. Casey’s daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The col… |
| Showbiz Goes to War | Archive Footage | 1982-12-31 | While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the A… |
| Twenty Years After | 1944-01-01 | This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases…. | |
| That’s Entertainment! | (archive footage) | 1974-06-21 | Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio’s 50 year history…. |
| Hollywood Without Make-Up | Himself | 1963-07-01 | A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood…. |
| Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 | The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York’s Radio City … |
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