Russell Johnson
Nacimiento : 1924-11-10, Ashley, Pennsylvania, USA
Muerte : 2014-01-16
Historia
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Russell David Johnson (November 10, 1924 – January 16, 2014) was an American actor, best known for his role as Professor Roy Hinkley in Gilligan's Island. Military career
After graduating from high school, Johnson enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet. On completing his training, he was commissioned a second lieutenant. He flew 44 combat missions in the Pacific Theater during World War II as a bombardier in B-25 twin-engined medium bombers.
On March 4, 1945, while flying as a navigator in a B-25 with the 100th Bombardment Squadron, 42nd Bombardment Group, 13th Air Force, his B-25 and two others were shot down during a low-level bombing and strafing run against Japanese military targets in the Philippine Islands. The B-25s encountered heavy anti-aircraft fire, and all three had to ditch in the sea off Zamboanga. Johnson broke both ankles in the landing, and his bomber's co-pilot was killed. Johnson received a Purple Heart for his injuries. He was also awarded the Air Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with three campaign stars, the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with one campaign star, and the World War II Victory Medal.
After Japan's surrender, Johnson was honorably discharged as a first lieutenant on November 22, 1945. He joined the United States Air Force Reserve and used the G.I. Bill to pay for his acting studies at the Actors' Lab in Hollywood. While there, he met actress Kay Cousins (1923–1980), whom he married in 1949.
His early roles were primarily in Westerns such as Rancho Notorious (1952, starring Marlene Dietrich), Seminole (1953), Law and Order (1953, opposite Ronald Reagan), and Badman's Country (1958), and science fiction films such as It Came from Outer Space (1953), This Island Earth (1955), Attack of the Crab Monsters (1956), and The Space Children (1958). He also appeared in a Ma and Pa Kettle vehicle, Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1955), as well as in Roger Corman's rock-'n'-roll crime drama Rock All Night (1957). In 1955, he had a role in Many Rivers to Cross along with Alan Hale Jr., later as the Skipper from Gilligan's Island.
"The Professor" on Gilligan's Island
Johnson was best known for playing Professor Roy Hinkley (usually called the "Professor"), the very knowledgeable polymath who could build all sorts of inventions out of the most rudimentary materials available on the island. As Johnson himself pointed out, though, he could not fix the hole in the boat. In the first episode of the show, the radio announcer describes the Professor as a research scientist and well-known scoutmaster. Gilligan's Island aired from 1964-67, but has been shown in reruns continuously ever since. CLR
Himself
At the height of the Cold War, Gilligan's Island depicted seven Americans living in an analogue of a post-apocalyptic world where the survivors have to rebuild civilization. Remarkably, the society they create is pure communist. Interviews with the show's creator and some of the surviving actors, as well from professors from Harvard, reveal that Gilligan's Island was deliberately designed to be dismissed as low brow comedy in order to celebrate Marxism and lampoon Western democratic constructs.
Himself
Mr. Martin
The "slippery" comedy is about 2 easy-living young men. They decide to make sex films. This adventurous enterprise could be a little complicated but nothing will deter them.
Mr. Whitby
Tras verse envueltos en una persecución de coches con la policía, dos jóvenes acaban en la prisión del estado de County. Allí se encontrarán con un montón de curiosos personajes.
Professor
The Harlem Globetrotters' chartered plane crash lands on the atoll inhabited by the happily marooned Gilligan and fellow castaways, and they all must play basketball against a specially programmed squad of robots controlled by a mad scientist.
Professor Benson
When oil is discovered in a small-town, some greedy prospectors hire a gang of wild bikers to scare the townsfolk away. However, when a group of young pilots stumble across the underhanded plot, they plan an effective retaliation.
Philip Kent (Andrew Stevens) toma parte en la revolución americana y en el recientemente formado congreso.
Professor
In the second of three additional Gilligan's Island movies following the series, the gang finds a way of getting rescued from the "uncharted desert isle" for a second time through a series of misadventures but comes back to turn it into a tropical resort for uptight mainlanders.
Professor Roy Hinkley, Jr.
Los náufragos deben tratar de adaptarse a la vida en la civilización después de haber sido rescatados de la isla.
Col. James Barrett
Phillipe Charboneau es el hijo ilegítimo de un duque Inglés. Cuando viaja de Francia a Inglaterra para reclamar su herencia, incurre en la ira de la familia de su padre y se ve obligado a huir a América, donde se ve envuelto en los acontecimientos que condujeron a la Revolución Americana.
Captain
Two policemen are suspected of excessive violence and causing two deaths. The investigation brings to light, little by little, the whole truth.
Loft
An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. Soon passengers and crew on those aircraft report seeing what they believe to be the ghost of the wrecked airplane's flight engineer.
Admiral King
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Biografía del famoso general americano Douglas MacArthur, que fue el comandante supremo de los aliados en el Pacífico y, además, comandante de las tropas de las Naciones Unidas en la guerra de Corea (1950-1953). La historia empieza con la derrota americana en la batalla de Corregidor (1942), que supuso la pérdida de las Filipinas, momento en el que pronunció la célebre frase ”Volveré”; y termina cuando es destituido por el presidente Truman por haberse atrevido a desafiar sus órdenes durante la guerra de Corea.
Charles Montague
A special unit of the U.S. Marshal's Service is assigned to protect a syndicate hitman who is to testify against his former bosses, who have put out a contract on his life.
Captain J.W. Shaw
Howard is mild-mannered and slightly simple-minded, with a habit of picking up teenage hitchhikers while driving his delivery routes. Sometimes the girls admit to being runaways, and if they claim to hate their mothers it drives Howard into a violent frenzy; his sister ran away from home years ago and was never heard from again, causing his desperate, addled mother to tighten her hold on him. Howard never remembers raping his victims or strangling them with wire coat hangers, though his boss does notice missed deliveries and late arrivals.
Intelligence Officer at Briefing (uncredited)
Robert Redford es un oscuro funcionario de la CIA, cuyo trabajo consiste en leer libros con el fin de detectar mensajes cifrados que permitan descubrir operaciones secretas susceptibles de perturbar la estabilidad del país. Un día, cuando vuelve al trabajo después de comer, encuentra a todos sus compañeros muertos. Consciente de que sólo el azar lo ha salvado de una muerte segura, huye tratando de salvarse, pero también para encontrar una explicación a lo sucedido. En su fuga se verá impelido a secuestrar a una bella mujer (Faye Dunaway) con la que, además de compartir sus peripecias, vive una intensa historia de amor.
The Foreman
A disturbed man wants his girlfriend's love and his wife's money, and will stop at nothing to get them, even murder.
Forbes
A madman hijacks the luxury cruise liner, S.S. Queen, and threatens to blow it up unless a millionaire pays him the the contents of a safe deposit box. The crew regains control of the ship, but the hijacker dies, taking the codes to disarm the bomb with him.
Dr. Frank Franklin
A young woman who is battling a rare blood disease must also fight against a greedy doctor who needs a heart-transplant donor, and has her in mind.
Alex Langley
A museum heist with an unusual twist: the three thieves are all physically disabled. The men, one confined to a wheelchair, one with prosthetic hands, and one blind, plan to steal a valuable statue. The men use teamwork and ingenuity to beat the high-tech security and get in and out with the statue. However, their plan is not foolproof, as a museum guard recognizes their M.O. and pays them a visit.
Jim Hawley
A commercial-jet captain (Chuck Connors) has ghosts on board from stones of an English abbey being shipped overseas.
Cliff Thomas
An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets.
After committing a crime, fugitive Wally takes a young woman hostage and determines not to return to prison at any cost.
Scribe
Superproducción sobre la vida de Jesús de Nazaret que contó con un extenso y conocido reparto en el que destaca Max von Sydow como Jesucristo. A partir de los Evangelios narra la vida de Jesús en la Palestina ocupada por Roma: su nacimiento en Belén, su infancia en Nazaret, los tres años de vida pública, la Última Cena, la traición de su discípulo Judas, su juicio, crucifixión y posterior resurrección.
Hook
El ex sargento Jeff Givens y su banda roban al Teniente Hemp Brown dinero del ejército. Brown tendrá que afrontar un consejo de guerra acusado de cobardía. Western de serie B dirigido por Richard Carlson, más conocido por su profesión de actor("It Came from Outer Space"). El protagonista del film es Rory Calhoun que a pesar que los western en los que participa no son conocidos, Calhoun tuvo una larga trayectoria como actor en la que destaca "Río sin retorno" junto a Robert Mitchum i Marilyn Monroe. Aunque la cinta tiene un bajo presupuesto y un planteamiento pobre es, bajo un título olvidado, un buen entrenimiento para los seguidores del género.
Sundance
Pat Garrett arrives in Abilene where he catches five of Butch Cassidy's gang. He calls in Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson and they learn there is a half million dollar shipment of money arriving by train and Cassidy is amassing enough men to take it.
Joe Gamble
Una criatura parecida a un cerebro brillante llega a una playa cerca de un sitio de prueba de cohetes a través de un rayo de teletransportación. El extraterrestre se comunica telepáticamente con los hijos de los científicos. Los niños comienzan a hacer las órdenes del extraterrestre mientras los adultos intentan averiguar qué le está sucediendo a su rebelde descendiente.
Ben Farraday
A young boy is given a colt to raise as his own.
Jigger
Cloud Nine, the local teen hangout, has been taken over by a pair of escaped killers, who hold the local teens hostage. The bartender realizes it's up to him to save the kids.
Hank Chapman
Un grupo de científicos viaja a una isla remota para estudiar los efectos de las pruebas de armas nucleares, solo para quedar varado cuando su avión explota misteriosamente. El equipo pronto descubre que las pruebas han dado lugar a cangrejos mutados en gigantes inteligentes, impermeables y telepáticos que intentan aumentar su número mediante la cría y luego viajar a áreas pobladas para alimentarse, y que no pretenden ser detenidos por sus descubridores.
Steve Carlson
El doctor Meachan (Rex Reason) y otros científicos son invitados por los habitantes del planeta Metaluna para que les ayuden a encontrar uranio, un mineral imprescindible para la supervivencia de su planeta. Pero los doctores descubren que el propósito de sus anfitriones no es otro que invadir la Tierra. Sólo Exeter (Jeff Morrow), un científico de Metaluna, parece estar en contra de la invasión.
Shadduck
La pelirroja Julia llega a Santa Fe en 1879 para reunirse con su hermano, un aventurero. Sin embargo, nada más llegar, la hija del cacique del pueblo le advierte que éste no la quiere en Santa Fe.
Eddie Nelson
Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers from an illness. Pa soon causes a major explosion and gets himself kidnapped.
Banks
Un trampero duro y solitario (Robert Taylor) pasa por Barren River para vender pieles y conoce a Mary Stuart, una muchacha indómita que se enamora de él al instante, y que está firmemente decidida a hacer lo que sea, a recurrir a todo tipo de estratagemas, con tal de casarse con él. Bien es verdad que dispone de poco tiempo para conseguirlo, pues el predicador, que está a punto de llegar, pasa por el pueblo sólo una vez al año. Sin embargo, el matrimonio es algo que no entra en los planes del solitario cazador.
Howard Sloane
Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.
Emory
Johnny Dark, joven ingeniero que intenta diseñar coches especiales para personas sensibles, convence al dueño de la empresa para la que trabaja, Fielding, para que le permita construir un modelo preparado específicamente para una importante carrera.
Jed Ringer
Buscando venganza, Clay O'Mara (Audie Murphy) va en busca de los causantes de la muerte de su padre y su hermano. En el camino se encontrará con el forajido Whitey Kincaid (Dan Duryea), quien se unirá a su búsqueda. (FILMAFFINITY)
Lam Blandon
Jim Harvey, un decidido y joven aventurero, es contratado para escoltar una caravana que debe atravesar territorio inidio. Durante el viaje son atacados por la tribu del jefe Águila. La ayuda que Jim prestó al hijo de éste podría ser la única circunstancia que los librara de la muerte. (FILMAFFINITY)
Greiner
El Sheriff Lane Dakota captura a Greiner, principal sospechoso de un robo con asesinato, justo cuando éste último es herido en una emboscada apache.
George
Un astrónomo aficionado, John Putnam, y su prometida Eilen Fields contemplan las estrellas en el desierto cuando una nave espacial atraviesa el cielo y choca contra el suelo. Justo antes de que un corrimiento de tierras entierre la nave, una misteriosa criatura emerge y desaparece en la oscuridad. Por supuesto, cuando Putnam cuenta la historia al sheriff, nadie le cree, pero pronto empiezan a suceder cosas extrañas.
Corp. Biddle
El teniente de caballería Jed Sayre está destinado en Navajo Country y mantiene buenas relaciones con los indios. Sin embargo, su nuevo compañero es de los que piensan que el único indio bueno es el indio muerto. En un principio, parece que Sayre consigue cambiar la forma de pensar de su compañero y comienza a vivir una historia de amor con la hermana de éste. Los problemas comienzan cuando el general confederado Storey urde un plan secreto para forzar a la caballería a unirse a las tropas del Sur antes de que comience la guerra. (FILMAFFINITY)
Jimmy Johnson
El jefe de policía Frame Johnson se retira para asentarse en un rancho con la mujer a la que ama. Pero unos maleantes le persiguen.
Lt. Hamilton
Un joven militar, recién salido de la academia de West Point, es enviado a Florida con la misión de conseguir la paz con las tribus indias. Sus métodos no serán aceptados fácilmente. Además, el oficial se enfrenta a un consejo de guerra por asesinato y traición al ejército americano.
Johnny Redondo - Smuggler
Further misadventures of comic soldiers Willie and Joe, now in Japan.
Charlie Thompson
A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharkers, a union leader and the factory owner try to recruit ex-con Joe Gargan to infiltrate to the gang. At first Joe does not want to get involved, but changes his mind when his brother-in-law dies at the hands of a savage loan shark hood. Joe works his way into the mob, but in order to keep his cover, Joe can't tell anyone what he is up to. This results in him being disowned by his sister and girl friend.
Chuck-A-Luck Wheel Spinner (uncredited)
Un hombre en busca de venganza se infiltra en un rancho, oculto en una región inhóspita, donde su dueña, Altar Keane, da cobijo a los forajidos que huyen de la ley a cambio de un precio.
Ky Walker
A college professor begins to suspect that a student's accidental death was tied to his refusal to take part in a traditional "hazing" and was no accident.
