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Acting

Van Johnson

Career: Active from 1942 to 1992, with up to 5 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 59
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: The Human Comedy
83/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 73 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Van Johnson Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.8, average 5.4
Uncanny
1.2, average 2.5
Dark Humor
1.6, average 2.8
Scare
1.4, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Hollywood 8
Nostalgic 7
Character-Driven 7
Moral Dilemma 6
Historical Drama 5
Historical Setting 4
WWII Drama 4
Character Study 3
Social Commentary 3
Romantic Comedy 3
Hopeful 3
Crime Drama 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

121

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1990s

7 titles · average score 62

The Boy from Mercury

as Game Show Contestant (Archive Footage)

Three Days to a Kill

40

as Comm. Howard

MGM: When the Lion Roars

80

TV show

Clowning Around

63

TV show · as Mr. Ranthow

Clowning Around

67

as Mr. Ranthow

Flight from Paradise

as Erzähler

Delta Force Commando II: Priority Red One

as Gen. McCailland

1980s

10 titles · average score 60

Killer Crocodile

38

as Judge

Taxi Killer

as Captain

Down There in the Jungle

as The professor

The Purple Rose of Cairo

81

as Larry

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

74

TV show · as Art Bellasco

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Daniel O'Brien / Daniel Hannigan

Scorpion with Two Tails

45

as Mulligan - Joan's father

Showbiz Goes to War

as (archive footage)

Aloha Paradise

TV show

The Kidnapping of the President

44

as Vice President Ethan Richards

1970s

21 titles · average score 63

From Corleone to Brooklyn

63

as Lieutenant Sturges

Concorde Affair

46

as Captain Scott

Tales of the Unexpected

72

TV show · as Gerry T. Armstrong

Superdome

38

as Chip Green

The Love Boat

53

TV show · as Bert Wilder / Victor Moncrief

Quincy, M.E.

74

TV show · as Al Ringerman

One Day at a Time

66

TV show · as Gus Webster

Call Her Mom

as President Hardgrove

Maude

47

TV show · as Henry

Eye of the Spider

as Prof. Orson Krüger

Company of Killers

as Sam Cahill

McCloud

71

TV show

1960s

15 titles · average score 61

Eagles Over London

49

as Air Marshal George Taylor

The Price of Power

55

as President James A. Garfield

Love, American Style

43

TV show

Yours, Mine and Ours

64

as Darrel Harrison

Here's Lucy

68

TV show · as Van Johnson

Divorce American Style

79

as Al Yearling

Batman

73

TV show · as The Minstrel

The Doomsday Flight

55

as Capt. Anderson

American in Paris

as James Devlin

Wives and Lovers

52

as Bill Austin

Ben Casey

65

TV show

The Enemy General

62

as Allan Lemaire

1950s

36 titles · average score 61

Web of Evidence

55

as Paul Mathry

Slander

65

as Scott Ethan Martin

Miracle in the Rain

70

as Pvt. Arthur 'Art' Hugenon

23 Paces to Baker Street

68

as Phillip Hannon

The End of the Affair

70

as Maurice Bendrix

The Caine Mutiny

77

as Lt. Stephen Maryk

The Last Time I Saw Paris

47

as Charles Wills

Brigadoon

63

as Jeff Douglas

Men of the Fighting Lady

53

as Lt. Thayer

Confidentially Connie

57

as Joe Bedloe

Easy to Love

57

as Ray Lloyd

Go for Broke!

62

as Michael Grayson

1940s

32 titles · average score 65

Battleground

76

as Holley

In the Good Old Summertime

67

as Andrew Delby Larkin

Scene of the Crime

59

as Mike Conovan

State of the Union

76

as Spike McManus

Command Decision

72

as Technical Sergeant Immanuel T. Evans

The Bride Goes Wild

65

as Greg Rawlings

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

62

as Henry Carson

Thrill of a Romance

61

as Thomas Milvaine

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

70

as Ted Lawson

A Guy Named Joe

64

as Ted Randall

Two Girls and a Sailor

82

as John Dyckman Brown III

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

60

as Dr. Randall Adams