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Ben Johnson
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American film actor (1918–1996)
OverviewAI-generated
Ben Johnson was an American actor whose professional career spanned from 1939 until his death in 1996. Born on June 13, 1918, he passed away on April 8, 1996. VIAF records list his nationality as US and USA, with acting as his primary field. He was recognized in the Academy Award Best Supporting Actor collection and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.
Other sources associate the name Ben Johnson with different individuals and creative outputs. An Open Library entry lists a birth date of 1950 and twenty works, including *Who's What and Where*, *Prentice Hall Literature*, and *The Alchemist (The Revels Plays)*. MusicBrainz identifies a male artist from the United States with genres such as acoustic blues, country blues, and american. Last.fm data tags a musician named Ben Johnson with Hard Trance, indie rock, and Lo-Fi, noting 2,456 listeners and 10,740 plays. Crossref indicates five works for an author by this name.
Synthesized by Vinony from 30 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, VIAF, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1950
- Works
- 20
Top works
- Who's What and Where
- Prentice Hall Literature, The British Edition. Volume I
- The healing code
- The Alchemist (The Revels Plays)
- An Adventure in Prayer
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1911-05-08
- Active to
- 1938-08-16
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,456
- Total plays
- 10,740
Tags
There is more than one artist with this name. 1. Indie / Alternative / Progressive Rock artist from Chicago, Illinois 2. Indie Pop group from Salt Lake City, Utah - also performing under the name the Ben Johnson Boom Band (search this artist name on last.fm for more info) 1. Some of the best human stories are the hardest to tell – those stories that are acted out inside a person, instead of obviously out in the world. But the facts of Ben Johnson’s life more than hint at the presence of jus
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
<b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 75,958x
- Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2
· 2012 · cited 54,002x
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 32,899x
- HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
· 2015 · cited 22,038x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,295x
via Crossref · CC0
Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- 1918–1996
- Nationality
- US, USA
- Role / Field
- Actors, Aktorzy, Acting, Aktorstwo
- Language
- eng, eng.
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 18 libraries
via VIAF · OCLC
Quotes
- “Don't tell me I cheated the system because that's [expletive]. I didn't get treated fairly by the system. They cast me out and they were jealous because I turned in the fastest time ever run by a human and it was impossible at the time.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Francis Benjamin Johnson Jr. , ( 1918-06-13 ) June 13, 1918, Foraker, Oklahoma , U.S.
- Died
- April 8, 1996 (1996-04-08) (aged 77), Mesa, Arizona , U.S.
- Resting place
- Pawhuska City Cemetery
- Occupations
- Actor stuntman rodeo cowboy
- Years active
- 1939–1996
- Spouse
- Carol Elaine Jones ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1941 ; died 1994 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ben
- Family name
- Johnson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Foraker
- Place of death
- Mesa
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- Western
- Image
- Ben Johnson The Wild Bunch publicity photo.JPG
Show 10 more facts
- Commons category
- Ben Johnson (actor)
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1918-06-13
- date of death
- 1996-04-08
- manner of death
- natural causes
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- name in native language
- Ben Johnson
- start of work period
- 1939-00-00
- end of work period
- 1996-00-00
- writing language
- English language
via Wikidata · CC0
~10 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Francis Benjamin Johnson Jr. (June 13, 1918 – April 8, 1996) was an American film and television actor, stuntman, and world-champion rodeo cowboy. Johnson brought authenticity to many roles in Westerns with his droll manner and expert horsemanship.
The son of a rancher, Johnson arrived in Hollywood to deliver a consignment of horses for a film. He did stunt-double work for several years before breaking into acting with the help of John Ford. An elegiac portrayal of a former cowboy theater owner in the 1950s-set coming-of-age drama The Last Picture Show won Johnson the 1971 Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ben Johnson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.