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Johnny Duncan
7 December 1923
Johnny Duncan played in 1 movies in the Comedy, Music genres.
Johnny Duncan got succeed with average imdb rating 6.9.
Johnny Duncan at the time of writing this biography is only a few months short of his 80th birthday and in good health, living with his 39-year-old wife and enjoying life not far from where his life began. He started out on a small farm near Kansas City in 1923. As a child growing up during the Great Depression, Johnny danced up a storm in local towns, and with the money he saved he was able to pay out his parent's overdue mortgage to the banks. Not long after, he ran a little dance school with ... his little girl pal, Lou, teaching locals kids how to tap dance. Not long after, an agent helped him make it to L.A. on a $50-a-month contract. He got roles playing juveniles with the East Side Kids/Bowery Boys and other movie roles. You can see him working the radio in the Bogart classic _Action in the North Atlantic (1943)_ (qv). During the war he met 'Lana Turner' (qv) and taught her the Lindy Hop (Jitterbug). At the age of 26, he became the second Boy Wonder, in the 15-part serial Batman and Robin. Off the set, you could find Johnny out on his Triumph 600 on the weekend in the canyons around Calabasas with mates like Lee Marvin, Larry Parks, Keenan Wynn and Clark Gable, or at dinner parties held by Jimmy Cagney. During the '50s, Johnny made fewer films after _The Caine Mutiny (1954)_ (qv) (also with Bogart), but he did play another sailor in a film with 'Rita Hayworth' (qv), whom he described as the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. You can also spot him in the legendary Ed Wood flick _Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)_ (qv) and getting his head chopped off in _Spartacus (1960)_ (qv). Nowadays, you can still spot him at the occasional movie convention, signing photos from Batman and Robin and The East Side Kids.Read more Less
