Charles Van Dell Johnson (1916 - 2008)

Born 25 Aug 1916 in Newport, Rhode Island, USA

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Died 12 Dec 2008 at age 92 in Nyack, New York, USA

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Biography

Van Johnson is Notable.

Charles Van Dell Johnson (August 25, 1916 – December 12, 2008) was an American film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during and after World War II.

Johnson was the embodiment of the "boy-next-door wholesomeness (that) made him a popular Hollywood star in the '40s and '50s," playing "the red-haired, freckle-faced soldier, sailor or bomber pilot who used to live down the street" in MGM movies during the war years with such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, A Guy Named Joe, and The Human Comedy. Johnson made occasional World War II movies through the end of the 1960s, and played a military officer in one of his final feature films, in 1992. At the time of his death in December 2008, he was one of the last surviving matinee idols of Hollywood's "golden age".

Born in Newport, Rhode Island, the only child of Loretta (née Snyder), a housewife, and Charles E. Johnson, a plumber and later real-estate salesman. His father was born in Sweden and came to the United States as a young child, and his mother had Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His mother, an alcoholic, left the family when her son was a child; Johnson's relationship with his father was chilly.

Charles was born in 1916. He passed away in 2008.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Personal recollection of events witnessed by Coutu (Coutu) Perras as remembered 19 Nov 2022.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Johnson

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32135276/van-johnson

• http://www.newportri.com/ffa16d55-2517-593e-abd4-7c7092d7cda9.html

• http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php/Van_Johnson

• https://dukewayne.com/index.php?thread/6023-van-johnson/