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Acting

Don Johnson

Career: Active from 1969 to 2024, busiest in 1978 and 1981 with 4 main titles each.

Leading roles: 45
top three billing

Average score: 58/100

Highest rated: Knives Out
85/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 71 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Don Johnson Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Wonder
2.2, average 3.4
Fantasy
0.7, average 1.7
Spiritual
1.2, average 2.0
Melancholy
3.9, average 4.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 6
Crime Thriller 4
Underdog Story 3
Courtroom Drama 3
Coming-of-Age 3
Gritty Realism 3
Psychological Tension 3
Moral Ambiguity 3
Stylized Violence 2
Slow-Burn Tension 2
Moral Dilemma 2
Crime Drama 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

95

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

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1 title

Southern Discomfort

TV show · as Bob Dobson

2020s

11 titles · average score 57

Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America

56

TV show · as Doc Holliday

Rebel Ridge

77

as Chief Sandy Burnne

Doctor Odyssey

62

TV show · as Captain Robert Massey

Unit 234

50

as Jules

A Little White Lie

53

as T. Wasserman

Book Club: The Next Chapter

51

as Arthur

The Collective

29

as Liam

High Heat

49

as Ray

Kenan

66

TV show · as Rick

Nash Bridges

63

as Nash Bridges

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

77

TV show · as Prince Humperdinck

2010s

21 titles · average score 61

Knives Out

85

as Richard Drysdale

Dragged Across Concrete

68

as Chief Lt. Calvert

Vault

64

as Gerry

Book Club

55

as Arthur

Brawl in Cell Block 99

78

as Warden Tuggs

Vengeance: A Love Story

47

as Jay Kirkpatrick

Blood & Oil

57

TV show · as Hap Briggs

Alex of Venice

60

as Roger

Cold in July

73

as Jim Bob

The Other Woman

46

as Frank

From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series

66

TV show · as Earl McGraw

Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star

18

as Miles Deep

2000s

8 titles · average score 55

Eastbound & Down

81

TV show · as Eduardo Sanchez

Glenn Martin, DDS

49

TV show · as Grandpa Whitey (voice)

Torno a vivere da solo

42

as Nico

Bastardi

as Sante Patene'

Long Flat Balls II

49

as Admiral Burnett

Moondance Alexander

47

as Dante

Just Legal

58

TV show · as Grant Cooper

Word of Honor

62

as Benjamin Tyson

1990s

12 titles · average score 56

Judging Amy

76

TV show · as Defense Attorney

Goodbye Lover

38

as Ben Dunmore

Nash Bridges

44

TV show · as Nash Bridges

Tin Cup

64

as David Simms

In Pursuit of Honor

71

as Sgt. John Libbey

Guilty as Sin

45

as David Greenhill

Born Yesterday

34

as Paul Verrall

In the Company of Darkness

61

Executive Producer

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

48

as Robert Lee Anderson / The Marlboro Man

Paradise

64

as Ben Reed

The Hot Spot

62

as Harry Madox

The Word

63

TV show

1980s

18 titles · average score 63

Dead Bang

47

as Jerry Beck

Miami Vice: Freefall

82

as Det. James “Sonny” Crockett

Sweet Hearts Dance

45

as Wiley Boon

Heartbeat

as Documentary Filmmaker

The Long Hot Summer

63

TV show · as Ben Quick

Cease Fire

63

as Tim Murphy

Miami Vice

77

TV show · as Sonny Crockett

Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper

80

as Det. James “Sonny” Crockett

70

as Carl

Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.

58

as Jacob Gorch

Elvis and the Beauty Queen

as Elvis Presley

The Two Lives of Carol Letner

as Bob Howard

1970s

23 titles · average score 59

The Rebels

82

TV show · as Judson Fletcher

Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill

as Cowboy

Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold

49

as Gunther

The City

60

as Sgt. Brian Scott

Eight Is Enough

42

TV show · as Doug

Law of the Land

as Quirt

A Boy and His Dog

68

as Vic

Return to Macon County

60

as Harley McKay

The Harrad Experiment

31

as Stanley Cole

Barnaby Jones

70

TV show · as Wayne Lockwood

Zachariah

50

as Matthew

The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart

60

as Stanley Sweetheart

1960s

1 title

Fortune and Men's Eyes

as Smitty