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Ben Johnson
Birthday: June 13, 1918

Birth Place: Foraker, Shidler, Oklahoma, USA
Height: 6' 3"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Ben Johnson. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

 

Biography

Born in Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was a ranch hand and rodeo preformer when, in 1940, Howard Hughes hired him to take a load of horses to California. He decided to stick around (the pay was good), and for some years was a stunt man, horse wrangler, and double for such stars as John Wayne, Gary Cooper and James Stewart. His break came when John Ford noticed him and gave him a part in an upcoming film, and eventually a star part in Wagon Master (1950). He left Hollywood in 1953 to return to rodeo, where he won a world roping championship, but at the end of the year he had barely cleared expenses. The movies paid better, and were less risky, so he returned to the west coast and a career that saw him in over 300 movies.

Movie Credits
The Evening Star (1996)
[ Jack Nicholson ][ Bill Paxton ][ John Cho ][ Mackenzie Astin ][ George Newbern ]
Ruby Jean and Joe (1996)
[ Tom Selleck ][ John Diehl ]
Bonanza: Under Attack (1995)
[ Leonard Nimoy ][ Dennis Farina ][ Jack Elam ][ Richard Roundtree ]
Angels in the Outfield (1994)
[ Matthew McConaughey ][ Joseph Gordon-Levitt ][ Christopher Lloyd ][ Dermot Mulroney ][ Danny Glover ]
The Outlaws: Legend of O.B. Taggart (1994)
[ Ernest Borgnine ][ Mickey Rooney ][ Ned Beatty ]
Bonanza: The Return (1993)
[ Dean Stockwell ][ Jack Elam ][ Richard Roundtree ]
Radio Flyer (1992)
[ Tom Hanks ][ Elijah Wood ][ Adam Baldwin ][ Thomas Ian Nicholas ][ Joseph Mazzello ]
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991)
[ Gary Busey ][ Scott Glenn ][ Mickey Rooney ][ Balthazar Getty ][ Clarence Williams III ]
The Chase (1991)
[ Casey Siemaszko ][ Barry Corbin ][ Robert Beltran ]
Back to Back (1990)
[ Bill Paxton ]
The Last Ride (1989)
[ Thomas F. Wilson ]
Dark Before Dawn (1988)
[ Billy Drago ][ Doug McClure ][ Jeff Osterhage ]
Stranger on My Land (1988)
[ Tommy Lee Jones ][ Tommy Lee ][ Joseph Gordon-Levitt ][ Terry O'Quinn ][ Barry Corbin ]
Cherry 2000 (1987)
[ Laurence Fishburne ][ Brion James ][ Harry Carey Jr. ]
Trespasses (1986)
[ Lou Diamond Phillips ]
Let's Get Harry (1986)
[ Robert Duvall ][ Gary Busey ][ Mark Harmon ][ Michael Schoeffling ][ Thomas F. Wilson ]
Wild Horses (1985)
[ Hans Zimmer ][ Richard Farnsworth ]
Red Dawn (1984)
[ Charlie Sheen ][ Patrick Swayze ][ C. Thomas Howell ][ Harry Dean Stanton ][ Powers Boothe ]
Champions (1984)
[ John Hurt ][ Edward Woodward ]
The Shadow Riders (1982)
[ Sam Elliott ][ Tom Selleck ][ Geoffrey Lewis ][ Harry Carey Jr. ][ Jeff Osterhage ]
Tex (1982)
[ Matt Dillon ][ Emilio Estevez ][ Bill McKinney ]
Ruckus (1981)
[ Dirk Benedict ][ Richard Farnsworth ][ Willie Nelson ]
Terror Train (1980)
[ David Copperfield ]
The Hunter (1980)
[ Steve McQueen ][ Eli Wallach ][ LeVar Burton ][ Tracey Walter ][ Tony Burton ]
Wild Times (1980)
[ Dennis Hopper ][ Sam Elliott ][ Pat Hingle ][ Harry Carey Jr. ]
Soggy Bottom, USA (1980)
[ Don Johnson ][ Jack Elam ][ Lane Smith ]
The Sacketts (1979)
[ Sam Elliott ][ Tom Selleck ][ Glenn Ford ][ Slim Pickens ][ Jack Elam ]
The Swarm (1978)
[ Michael Caine ][ Henry Fonda ][ Richard Chamberlain ][ Richard Widmark ][ Slim Pickens ]
Grayeagle (1978)
[ Jack Elam ]
The Greatest (1977)
[ Robert Duvall ][ James Earl Jones ][ Ernest Borgnine ][ Paul Winfield ][ James Gammon ]
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1977)
[ Andrew Prine ]
The Savage Bees (1976)
[ James Best ]
Hustle (1975)
[ Burt Reynolds ][ Robert Englund ][ Ernest Borgnine ][ Fred Willard ][ Edward Albert ]
Breakheart Pass (1975)
[ Charles Bronson ][ Charles Durning ][ Richard Crenna ][ Bill McKinney ]
Bite the Bullet (1975)
[ Gene Hackman ][ Jan-Michael Vincent ][ Dabney Coleman ]
Locusts (1974)
[ Ron Howard ]
The Sugarland Express (1974)
[ John Williams ][ William Atherton ]
Blood Sport (1973)
[ Gary Busey ][ Larry Hagman ]
Kid Blue (1973)
[ Dennis Hopper ][ Peter Boyle ][ M. Emmet Walsh ][ Warren Oates ][ Howard Hesseman ]
Runaway! (1973)
Dillinger (1973)
[ Richard Dreyfuss ][ Harry Dean Stanton ][ Geoffrey Lewis ][ Warren Oates ]
The Red Pony (1973)
[ Henry Fonda ][ Clint Howard ][ Maureen O'Hara ][ Jack Elam ]
The Train Robbers (1973)
[ John Wayne ][ Ricardo Montalban ][ Rod Taylor ]
The Getaway (1972)
[ Steve McQueen ][ Slim Pickens ]
Junior Bonner (1972)
[ Steve McQueen ][ Joe Don Baker ][ Bill McKinney ]
Corky (1972)
[ Robert Blake ]
The Last Picture Show (1971)
[ Jeff Bridges ][ Randy Quaid ][ Peter Bogdanovich ][ John Hillerman ][ Timothy Bottoms ]
Something Big (1971)
[ Dean Martin ][ Brian Keith ][ Harry Carey Jr. ]
The Bull of the West (1971)
[ Charles Bronson ][ George Kennedy ][ Brian Keith ][ DeForest Kelley ][ Lee J. Cobb ]
Chisum (1970)
[ John Wayne ][ Andrew Prine ]
Deserter, the (II) (1969)
The Undefeated (1969)
[ John Wayne ][ Rock Hudson ][ Jan-Michael Vincent ][ Harry Carey Jr. ][ Richard Mulligan ]
The Wild Bunch (1969)
[ William Holden ][ Ernest Borgnine ][ Sam Peckinpah ][ Warren Oates ][ Robert Ryan ]
Ride a Northbound Horse: Part 1 (1969)
[ Carroll O'Connor ][ Harry Carey Jr. ]
Ride a Northbound Horse (1969)
[ Carroll O'Connor ][ Jack Elam ][ Harry Carey Jr. ]
Hang 'Em High (1968)
[ Clint Eastwood ][ Dennis Hopper ][ Bruce Dern ][ Pat Hingle ][ James MacArthur ]
Will Penny (1968)
[ Charlton Heston ][ Jon Gries ][ Lee Majors ][ Bruce Dern ][ Donald Pleasence ]
Hour of the Gun (1967)
[ Jon Voight ][ James Garner ][ Jason Robards ][ Robert Ryan ]
Johnny Moon (1967)
The Rare Breed (1966)
[ James Stewart ][ John Williams ][ Maureen O'Hara ][ Brian Keith ][ Jack Elam ]
Quaker Girl (1966)
Major Dundee (1965)
[ Richard Harris ][ Charlton Heston ][ Sam Peckinpah ][ Slim Pickens ][ Warren Oates ]
Dangerous Road (1965)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
[ James Stewart ][ Ricardo Montalban ][ Jack Lord ][ John Ford ][ Richard Widmark ]
Quint-Cident (1963)
Duel at Shiloh (1963)
[ DeForest Kelley ]
The Gamble (1962)
The Race (1961)
Tomboy and the Champ (1961)
One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
[ Marlon Brando ][ Karl Malden ][ Slim Pickens ]
A Head of Hair (1960)
A Sound of Bells (1960)
Hour After Dawn (1960)
Ten Who Dared (1960)
[ Walt Disney ][ Brian Keith ]
Fort Bowie (1958)
Slim Carter (1957)
War Drums (1957)
[ Lex Barker ]
Rebel in Town (1956)
Simba (1955)
Oklahoma! (1955)
[ Rod Steiger ][ Edward Albert ][ Eddie Albert ][ James Whitmore ]
Shane (1953)
[ Jack Palance ][ Alan Ladd ]
Wild Stallion (1952)
Fort Defiance (1951)
[ Peter Graves ]
Rio Grande (1950)
[ John Wayne ][ Maureen O'Hara ][ Jack Lord ][ John Ford ][ Harry Carey Jr. ]
Wagon Master (1950)
[ Jack Lord ][ John Ford ][ James Arness ][ Ward Bond ][ Harry Carey Jr. ]
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
[ John Wayne ][ Jack Lord ][ John Ford ][ Harry Carey Jr. ]
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
3 Godfathers (1948)
[ John Wayne ][ Jack Lord ][ John Ford ][ Ward Bond ][ Harry Carey Jr. ]
The Gallant Legion (1948)
Badman's Territory (1946)
[ Randolph Scott ][ Lawrence Tierney ]
The Naughty Nineties (1945)
[ Bud Abbott ][ Lou Costello ]
Nevada (1944)
[ Robert Mitchum ]
Tall in the Saddle (1944)
[ John Wayne ][ Ward Bond ]
Bordertown Gun Fighters (1943)
The Outlaw (1943)
The Fighting Gringo (1939)

Trivia

  • Died while visiting his mother in the 'retirement community' where not only she but he himself lived.
  • Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994
  • A prize belt buckle that he won for calf roping was stolen from his car when he visited Houston in 1976; on a repeat visit a decade later he was an on-air guest on radio station KIKK when a caller returned the buckle to him.
  • He initially turned down the role in The Last Picture Show (1971) for which he won the Academy Award because the script contained too many curse words; with permission of the director, Peter Bogdanovich he rewrote his part with the offensive words removed.
  • As he was, his father, Ben Johnson, Sr., was a champion steer roper. The senior Johnson was also a cattleman and rancher who was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1961.
  • Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1982.
  • His father, Ben Johnson, Sr., was inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame of the Rodeo Historical Society (a support group of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum) in 1961. The Ben Johnson Memorial Award, in honor of his father, is awarded annually to prominent representatives of the western character and spirit (since 1998).
  • Johnson, his father, and nephew have Belt-Buckle awards for team roping.
  • Had Osage and Irish blood.
  • He turned down the role of Sam the Lion in The Last Picture Show (1971) when it was first offered to him by Peter Bogdanovich because he thought the script was "dirty" and he did not approve of swearing and nudity in motion pictures. Bogdanovich appealed to John Ford, who got Johnson to change his mind as a favor to him. Johnson won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar playing the role.
  • Johnson got his first big break as a member of John Ford's stock company in the late 1940s. However, during the making of Rio Grande (1949), Johnson and Ford had a brief verbal argument. All seemed well afterward, and nothing further was said of it, so Ben assumed it was completely blown over. However, Ford didn't use Johnson again in another picture for 14 years, when Ben played a small part in Cheyenne Autumn (1964). They did manage to maintain a friendly relationship nonetheless.

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