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.

Ben Johnson. Actor: The Last Picture Show. Born in Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was a ranch hand and rodeo performer when, in 1940, Howard Hughes hired him to take a load of horses to California.

2021年9月23日 · Ben “Son” Johnson Jr. was a cowboy from his earliest years and received his big break in the movies when he was hired to take a shipment of horses from the ranch his father managed in Oklahoma to Howard Hughes’s movie set for The Outlaw in Monument Valley in the fall of 1940. Ben almost didn’t sign on to The Last Picture Show. The first ...

1996年4月9日 · Ben Johnson, rugged Western actor of about 300 films who won an Academy Award as the movie theater owner in “The Last Picture Show,” died Monday He was 75.

2023年9月22日 · Ben Johnson arrived in California in the late 1930s after Howard Hughes bought some horses from an Oklahoma ranch where Johnson worked. Hughes liked the way the cowboy hand-led horses and offered him a job hauling them to northern Arizona, where he was filming The Outlaw starring Jane Russell.

Ben Johnson. Actor: The Last Picture Show. Born in Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was a ranch hand and rodeo performer when, in 1940, Howard Hughes hired him to take a load of horses to California.

Ben Johnson was an American actor who was frequently cast in western films. He was also a rodeo performer, stuntman, ranch owner, and dedicated philanthropist. Born on June 13, 1918, in the small town of Foraker, Oklahoma, on the Osage Indian Reservation, Johnson had Native American Cherokee and Irish ancestry.

2023年11月20日 · He was the only movie star to win a World Championship in rodeo and an Academy Award in 1971 as Best Supporting Actor. In 1982 he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in …

1996年4月9日 · Ben Johnson, rugged Western actor of some 300 films who won an Academy Award as the movie theater owner in “The Last Picture Show,” died Monday He was 75.

1996年4月9日 · Western actor Ben Johnson, who appeared in more than 300 movies and won a best supporting Oscar for "The Last Picture Show," was one of America's favorite old-time movie cowboys. But unlike most of his peers on the screen, Johnson was …