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Don Johnson
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American actor and singer (born 1949)
OverviewAI-generated
Don Johnson, born Donnie Wayne Johnson on December 15, 1949, in Flat Creek, Missouri, is an American singer, actor, television actor, and film actor. He began his professional work period in 1970 and is a citizen of the United States. Johnson was educated at the University of Kansas. His acting career has been recognized with a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama, Saturn Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In addition to his performing arts career, Johnson has authored works including *Broken Parts*, *Missing Pieces*, and *Addiction Crucifixion Fellowship's Daily Devotionals*. He is the father of Jesse Johnson and Dakota Johnson. His personal life includes a marriage to Melanie Griffith and a partnership with Patti D'Arbanville. Johnson speaks English and performs as a vocalist.
Synthesized by Vinony from 39 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 26
Top works
- Broken Parts, Missing Pieces
- Addiction Crucifixion Fellowship's Daily Devotionals
- 40 Days in the Wilderness
- Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography (Revised)
- Strange Look at Life
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Film & TV
Acting · Flat Creek, Missouri, USA
Donald Wayne Johnson (born December 15, 1949) is an American actor, producer, director, singer, and songwriter. He's best known for his role as Det. James "Sonny" Crockett in the 1980s television series Miami Vice, winning a Golden Globe for his work in the role. In 1984, after more then a decade of acting on television, Johnson landed a starring role as undercover police detective Sonny…
Known for
- Unit 234 — Jules2024
- Rebel Ridge — Chief Sandy Burnne2024
- Doctor Odyssey — Captain Robert Massey2024
- Book Club: The Next Chapter — Arthur2023
- The Collective — Liam2023
- A Little White Lie — T. Wasserman2023
- Commitment to Life — Self (archive footage)2023
- High Heat — Ray2022
- Nash Bridges — Nash Bridges2021
- Kenan — Rick2021
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1949
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 122,738
- Total plays
- 566,626
Tags
Don Johnson, best known for his TV work on the series Miami Vice and later Nash Bridges, branched out into music and scored a Billboard Top 10 hit with "Heartbeat" that reached #5 in 1986. According to the Heartbeat Songfacts, it was also a worldwide hit, charting in the UK, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Austria, and other places. Johnson would break the Top-40 one more time, this time with assistance from Barbra Streisand in 1988 with "Till I Loved You." <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 32,805x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,261x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,612x
- Optical Constants of the Noble Metals
· 1972 · cited 18,232x
- Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)
· 2008 · cited 17,856x
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Quotes
- “Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Don Wayne Johnson (born December 15, 1949) is an American actor and singer-songwriter. He played the role of James "Sonny" Crockett in the 1980s television series Miami Vice, for which he won a Golden Globe, and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. He also played the titular character in the 1990s series Nash Bridges. Johnson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1996.
Johnson has appeared in films such as A Boy and His Dog (1975), The Hot Spot (1990), Guilty as Sin (1993), Tin Cup (1996), Machete (2010), Django Unchained (2012), Cold in July (2014) and Knives Out (2019). He released the albums Heartbeat (1986) and Let It Roll (1989) as a singer. His cover version of "Heartbeat" peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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