Don Johnson
Early life and education
Johnson was born in Flat Creek, Missouri, in 1949. His father was a farmer while his mother was a beautician. At the age of 6, he moved from Missouri to Wichita, Kansas. A 1967 graduate of South High School in Wichita, he was involved in the high school theatre program. As a senior, he played the lead role of Tony in “West Side Story”. His bio noted that he had previously appeared in “Burnt Cork and Melody” and “The Hullabaloo.” He also attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.
In the late 1960s, Johnson was in a psychedelic rock band called Horses. Also in the band were future members of the band Kingfish, which featured Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir. The band put out one self-titled record on the White Whale label in 1969, later re-issued on the Gear Fab label in 2004 and then on the Rev-Ola label in 2005.
Johnson, as several noteworthy news sources have mentioned over the years, was kept out of the military due to a high lottery number. He never had to serve, and in fact in a 1970 newspaprer artcile, claimed he would not have done so even if called due to his beliefs at the time.
Johnson is quoted in a 1970 newspaper article, mentioning his draft-exempt status and his dislike for war:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hr00AAAAIBAJ&sjid=UIcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1034,3970530&dq=don-johnson&hl=en
Acting
Early years
Johnson studied drama at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. His first major role was in the 1969 Los Angeles stage production of Fortune and Men’s Eyes in which he played Smitty, the lead role. This exposure led to the quickly forgotten film The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970). He continued to work on stage, film and television without breaking out into stardom. His notable films from this period were Zachariah (1971), The Harrad Experiment (1973), Lollipop and Roses (1974), and A Boy and His Dog (1975).
Miami Vice
After years of struggling to establish himself as a TV actor (in such fare as Revenge of the Stepford Wives) and a string of failed pilots which were never followed by an actual TV series, in September 1984, Johnson’s fortunes changed when he landed a starring role as Sonny Crockett in the cop series, Miami Vice. In this role, Johnson played an undercover police detective. He typically wore thousand dollar Versace and Hugo Boss suits over pastel cotton t-shirts, drove a Ferrari 365 GTS/4 Daytona (really a replica kit on a 1981 Corvette chassis), followed by a Ferrari Testarossa and lived on a 42-foot (13 m) yacht with his pet alligator “Elvis”. Miami Vice was noted for its revolutionary use of music, cinematography, and imagery as well as a more glitzy take on the police drama genre.
In between seasons, Don Johnson gained further renown through several TV miniseries, such as the 1985 TV remake of The Long, Hot Summer.
Nash Bridges
Johnson later starred in the 1996-2001 drama Nash Bridges with Cheech Marin, Jaime P. Gomez and Jodi Lyn O’Keefe. Johnson played the title role of Nash Bridges, a detective for the San Francisco Police Department. In Nash Bridges Johnson was again paired with a flashy convertible car, this time an electric yellow 1971 Plymouth Barracuda.
2000s
In the fall of 2005, he briefly starred in The WB courtroom television drama show Just Legal as a jaded lawyer with a very young and idealistic proteg/partner (Jay Baruchel); the show was canceled in October 2005 after just three episodes aired. In January 2007, Johnson began a run in the London West End production of Guys and Dolls as Nathan Detroit.
Don Johnson also has a role in the Norwegian comedy Lange Flate Ballr 2 (”Long Flat Balls II”), directed by Johnson’s friend Harald Zwart. Johnson did the movie as a favour to Zwart. The movie was launched March 14, 2008 in Norway, with Johnson making an appearance at the premiere. He next appeared in A Good Old Fashioned Orgy with Jon Heder, When in Rome with Danny De Vito, Anjelica Huston and Kirsten Bell, and Machete with Robert De Niro and Steven Seagal.
Johnson & Jon Heder co-hosted WWE’s Monday Night RAW on January 18th, 2010.
Music
Johnson released two albums of pop music in the 1980s, one in 1986 and the other in 1989. His single “Heartbeat”, the title track from his first album, reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Johnson is also a good friend of Willie Nelson. Previously, Johnson worked with Gregg Allman and Dickie Betts of the Allman Brothers, co-writing the songs “Blind Love” and “Can’t Take It with You” with Dickie Betts, which appeared on their 1979 album, Enlightened Rogues.
Releases
1986: Heartbeat album
1987: Heartbeat – Full Length Video VHS
1989: Let It Roll album
1988: Till I Loved You” (duet with Barbra Streisand and title track from her Till I Loved You album
1989: A better place (Un lugar mejor), (duet with latin singer Yuri), 4 tracks single
1997: The Essential album
Personal life
Relationships and family
Johnson with Griffith circa 1990.
Johnson has had four different wives in five marriages, three of which were short. Johnson had a major supporting role in The Harrad Experiment (released 1973), whose female lead was Tippi Hedren. He met Hedren’s daughter, Melanie Griffith around the first half of 1972; she was an uncredited extra. He was aged 22 and she 14 when they began what became a four-year affair, that included marrying, in 1976, for less than a year. Melanie and Don reconciled and conceived a child close to the start of 1989, announced wedding plans in mid-February, and were married a second time, from that year until 1996. They had a daughter, Dakota Mayi Johnson (born October 4, 1989).
He lived with Patti D’Arbanville from 1981 to 1985. The couple had a son, Jesse Wayne Johnson (born on December 7, 1982).
He had a relationship with Barbra Streisand, lasting into at least September 1988. Streisand and Johnson were supposedly secretly engaged at one point.He created a single with her called “Till I Loved You”, released that year. Johnson had a relationship with Jeanne Anderson in 1996.
On April 29, 1999, he married San Francisco socialite and former preschool teacher Kelley Phleger. He and Phleger had a daughter, Atherton Grace Johnson (born on December 28, 1999), and two sons, Jasper Breckinridge Johnson (born on June 6, 2002) and Deacon Johnson (born on April 29, 2006)
Legal problems
In 2001, a 36-year-old woman accused an intoxicated Johnson of squeezing and bruising her wrist and lewdly propositioning her outside a restroom at San Francisco restaurant Mas Sake, and claimed while still firmly squeezing her wrist he began drunkenly singing “Heartbeat”. The woman’s friends made their way across the restaurant to confront Johnson as he continued to sing but said when he saw them he let go of her and quickly fled out the back door. Johnson said he was considering buying an advertisement in the San Francisco Chronicle to state his side of the story, but later decided to post the notices on his website. Due to insufficient evidence, no charges were filed.
In November 2002, German customs officers at the Swiss-German border performed a routine search of Johnson’s car. Bank statements evidencing US$8 billion in transactions were found in the trunk of his car. He was accompanied in his black Mercedes-Benz by three men: an investment adviser, a personal assistant, and a third of unknown identity. Initially it was thought Johnson was involved in money-laundering, but he was cleared of wrongdoing. Upon receiving word of the incident, German tabloids began exploiting and perpetuating the story, at times pointing at the irony (as perceived by them) that Don Johnson has frequently portrayed police officers in his acting works. Johnson explained the incident by saying “I was meeting with some American businessmen in Zurich for financing, for a film fund that I was putting together for my company. They gave me some bank statements and some resumes and some other documents, some things to prove that they could perform as investors.”[citation needed] The police found and copied these documents, and the money laundering story grew somehow out of this.
In May 2008, Johnson came within hours of losing his Woody Creek, Colorado home to foreclosure; he paid off his $14.5 million dollar debts less than 24 hours before a scheduled auction of the property.
Reception
Awards and recognitions
Year
Result
Award
Category
TV/Film
1974
Winner
The Saturn Award
Best Actor
A Boy and his Dog
1985
Nominated
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Miami Vice
1986
Winner
Golden Globe Awards
Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Drama
1987
Nominated
Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Drama
1988
Won
APBA Offshore World Cup
Superboat class
-
1996
Awarded
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
-
In popular culture
Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (September 2009)
The Finnish music group Don Johnson Big Band is named after him.
In the comic strip of Calvin and Hobbes that was first published on May 4, 1986, when Calvin and Hobbes are getting ready to go to a dinner with Calvin’s parents, Hobbes asks, “Think I should shave?”, to which Calvin replies “No, go for the Don Johnson fuzzy look.”
The Don Johnson is a Miami Vice themed drink made from vodka, gin, curaao, and orange juice.
Filmography
Year
Film
Role
Notes
1970
The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart
Stanley Sweetheart
1971
Zachariah
Matthew
1973
The Harrad Experiment
Stanley Cole
Kung Fu
1973 episode – The Spirit Helper
1974
Lollipops and Roses
Franky
A Boy and His Dog
Vic
The Saturn Award – Best Actor
1975
Return to Macon County
Harley McKay
1976
Law of the Land
1977
The City
Sergeant Brian Scott
tv pilot
Trial Marriage
Cover Girls
1978
Swan Lake
Benno (English version) (voice)
Pressure Point
Ski Lift to Death
Mike Sloan
The Two-Five
Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold
First, You Cry
1979
Tales of the Unexpected
Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill
TV Movie
The Rebels
Miniseries
1980
Soggy Bottom, USA
Jacob Gorch
From Here to Eternity
Canceled after 13 episodes
Beulah Land
Miniseries
Revenge of the Stepford Wives
TV Movie
1981
Elvis and the Beauty Queen
Elvis Presley
TV Movie
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
TV Movie
1982
Melanie
Carl
19841989
Miami Vice
Det. James “Sonny” Crockett
111 Episodes
Golden Globe Winner: Best TV Actor – Drama
1985
Cease Fire
Tim Murphy
The Long, Hot Summer
Ben Quick
TV Movie
1987
G.I. Joe: The Movie
Lt. Falcon (voice)
direct-to-video
1988
Sweet Hearts Dance
Wiley Boon
1989
Dead Bang
Jerry Beck
1990
The Hot Spot
Harry Madox
1991
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Marlboro
Paradise
Ben Reed
1993
Born Yesterday
Paul Verrall
Guilty as Sin
David Edgar Greenhill
1995
In Pursuit of Honor
Sgt. John Libbey
HBO Movie
19962001
Nash Bridges
Nash Bridges
Executive producer
122 Episodes
1996
Tin Cup
David Simms
1998
Goodbye Lover
Ben Dunmore
2003
Word of Honor
Lt. Benjamin Tyson
TV Movie
Co-executive producer
2005
Just Legal
Grant H. Cooper
Cancelled after 3 episodes the rest of the episodes were later aired
8 episodes (20052006)
2007
Moondance Alexander
Dante
Super Bowl XLI in-studio discussion team. (CBS)
2008
Lange Flate Ballr 2
Admiral Burnett
Norwegian film
2009
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
-
2010
Born to be a Star
-
When in Rome
-
Machete
Lt. Stillman
References
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hr00AAAAIBAJ&sjid=UIcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1034,3970530&dq=don-johnson&hl=en
^ a b c d e f g “Don Johnson”. TV Guide. www.tvguide.com. http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/don-johnson/147651. Retrieved 2007-11-06.
^ a b “Don Johnson at Hollywood.com”. Hollywood.com. http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Don_Johnson/1114596. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
^ http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/results/12398922/ ], additional text.
^ Zoglin, Richard (1985-09-16). “Cool Cops, Hot Show”. Time Magazine (Time Inc.). http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,959822,00.html. Retrieved 2007-11-02.
^ a b “A Wedding Belle Gives Miami Spice”, People, November 23, 1987
^ “IMDb ”The Harrad Experiment””. Imdb.com. 2003-07-22. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070157/. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
^ a b c d “A Baby for Don and Melanie”, People Magazine, February 27, 1989
^ “IMDb ”The Harrad Experiment” full cast”. Imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070157/fullcredits#cast. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
^ a b Zoglin, Richard (1985-09-16). “Cool Cops, Hot Show”. Time Magazine (Time Inc.). http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,959822-4,00.html. Retrieved 2009-02-25.
^ “The Smoking Gun: Archive”. Thesmokinggun.com. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/johnson1.html. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
^ Gordon Hom (2008-12-29). “Nash Bridges: Nashbits News”. Lowtek.com. http://www.lowtek.com/nash/nashbits/. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
^ a b c d Cironneau, Lionel (2003-03-12). “Germany inspects papers linked to Johnson”. USA Today. Associated Press (Germany). http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-03-12-johnson_x.htm. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
^ a b c d e Welkos, Robert W. (2003-03-13). “For Actor Don Johnson, $8 Billion Worth of Bad Publicity in Germany”. Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2003/mar/13/local/me-johnson13. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
^ a b c “Don Johnson denies laundering money”. CNN. Associated Press. 2003-03-16. http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/16/don.johnson.ap/. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
^ “Don Johnson off the hook”. Los Angeles Times. 2003-05-07. http://articles.latimes.com/2003/may/07/entertainment/et-quick7.4. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
^ “Don Johnson denies laundering money.” CNN.com. March 16, 2003.
^ The Famous and Foreclosured Trutv.com. Retrieved December 22, 2008.
^ “Awards Database: Don Johnson”. The Envelope: The Awards Insider. LA Times. http://theenvelope.latimes.com/factsheets/awardsdb/env-awards-db-search,0,7169155.htmlstory?searchtype=all&query=Don+Johnson. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
^ “Advanced Primetime Awards Search”. Academy of Television Arts and Science. www.emmys.tv. http://www.emmys.tv/awards/awardsearch.php. Retrieved 2007-11-03.
^ a b “Miami Vice”. Hollywood Foreign Press Association/Golden Globes. www.hfpa.org. http://www1.goldenglobes.org/browse/film/24549. Retrieved 2007-11-03.
^ Friedman, Jack; Cindy Dampier (1990-05-28). “With Kurt Russell and Chuck Norris in Tow, Don Johnson Risks His Neck on a New Miami Viceuperboat Racing”. People Magazine 33 (21): 101,102.
^ “Biography”. Don Johnson Big Band. www.donjohnsonbigband. http://www.donjohnsonbigband.com/en/biography/. Retrieved 2007-12-20.
^ “Cocktail Recipe: Don Johnson’s Blazer”. BarMeister: Online guide to drinking. www.barmeister.com. http://www.barmeister.com/drinks/recipe/3483/. Retrieved 2007-12-20.
^ a b “Don Johnson’s road leads to “Rome”". Reuters. 2008-08-10. http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN1026564420080811. Retrieved 2008-08-12.
^ Hewitt, Chris (2009-04-28). “Don Johnson Is Born To Be A Star”. Empire Weekly. http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=24673. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
External links
Don Johnson at the Internet Movie Database
Don Johnson at TV.com
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