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Ben Johnson
13 June 1918
Ben Johnson played in 29 movies in the Drama, Western, Music, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Action, Crime, Thriller, Biography, Mystery, Horror, Sci-Fi, Family, Comedy, Sport genres.
Ben Johnson got succeed with average imdb rating 6.4.
Died of a heart attack while visiting his watch over in the retirement community where, not only she, but he himself lived.
Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994.
A rate highly hit buckle that he won for calf roping was stolen from his car when he visited Houston in 1976; on a reproduce visit a decade later, he was an on-air guest on portable radio passenger station KIKK when a caller returned the twist to him.
Johnson and his father, Ben Johnson, Sr., were advocate someone a wide berth bad ropers. The elder Johnson was also a cattleman and rancher who was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy and Western Tradition Museum in 1961. The younger Johnson was inducted into the Hall of Enormous Western Performers of the Nationalistic Cowboy and Western Patrimony Museum in 1982.
... Inducted into the Hall of Spectacular Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Birthright Museum in 1982.
His clergyman, Ben Johnson, Sr., was inducted into the Rodeo Foyer of Repute of the Rodeo Authentic The public (a support group of the Resident Cowboy and Western Inheritance Museum) in 1961. The Ben Johnson Memorial Furnish, in honor of his establish, is awarded annually to salient representatives of the western character and urge (since 1998).
Johnson, his frame, and nephew have in the offing Belt-Buckle awards also in behalf of team roping.
Had Cherokee and Irish blood.
He initially turned down the role of Sam the Lion in The Form Picture Display (1971) when it was in the beginning offered to him around Peter Bogdanovich because he meditating the organize was "dirty," and he did not approve of swearing and nudity in beckon pictures. Bogdanovich appealed to John Ford, who got Johnson to change his mind as a favor to him. With the approbation of Bogdanovich, Johnson rewrote his part with the offensive words removed. Johnson went on to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in favour of playing the job.
Johnson got his cardinal big interlude as a associate of John Ford's stock company in the late 1940s. However, during the making of Rio Grande (1949), Johnson and Ford had a condensation verbal argument. All seemed well afterward, and nothing further was said of it, so Ben suppositional it was unequivocally blown over. Still, Ford didn't make use of Johnson again in another picture for 14 years, when Ben played a niggardly part in Cheyenne Autumn (1964). Johnson's lifelong Harry Carey Jr. said he believed the reason was that when Ford was casting The Sun Shines Distinguished (1953), Johnson's agent heard that Ford wanted him for the essentially, called Ford--without Johnson's instruction--and demanded a hefty salary. Outraged at having been squeezed that, Ford held it against Johnson, and hardened that and the barney they had during "Rio Grande" as an extenuation not to use him again. They did manage to insist on a friendly relationship nonetheless.
Was in three movies in a row where his from the start name was Travis: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Sergant Travis Tyree; Wagon Lord (1950), Travis Blue; Rio Grande (1950), Trooper Travis Tyree.
Also doubled for Randolph Scott.
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