Lamont Johnson (Director)

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Ernest Lamont Johnson, Jr. (born September 30, 1922 in Stockton , California , † October 24, 2010 in Monterey , California) was an American film actor , film and television director who not only received two Emmy awards , but also four times Directors Guild of America Award .

biography

The son of a real estate agent studied briefly at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) between 1942 and 1943 after attending school . Later, he was at times as a radio speaker in radio and as a director of operas operates.

In 1952 he made his debut as an actor in the film Retreat, Hell! (Fire Protection for Shock Troop Berta), a drama about the Korean War directed by Joseph H. Lewis . This was followed by films such as Sally and Saint Anne (1952) by Rudolph Maté , The Human Jungle (Always he chased blondes, 1954) by Joseph M. Newman , Please Murder Me (1956) by Peter Godfrey and The Brothers Rico (1957) by Phil Karlson . He also played roles in numerous television series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents , Big Valley and Smoking Colts .

He then directed episodes for the television series Have Gun – Will Travel (1957 to 1963), Merciless City (1958 to 1963), Peter Gunn (1958 to 1961), Mr. Lucky (1959 to 1960), Twilight Zone (1959 to 1961), Dr. Kildare (1961 to 1966), Judd, for the Defense (1967 to 1969) and The Name of the Game (1968 to 1971).

In 1965 he made his film directing debut with Profiles in Courage and received the Directors Guild of America Award for it. In the following years he made films such as The Covenant with Death (1967) and My Sweet Charlie (1970) with Patty Duke , for which he again received the Directors Guild of America Award in 1971. Based on the films The McKenzie Break ( Outbreak of 28 , 1970) with Brian Keith and Helmut Griem , A Gunfight ( Rivals of Death , 1971) with Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash , The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972, The Agent Who Saw His Body) with George Peppard and Michael Sarrazin , You'll Like My Mother (1972) with Patty Duke and Richard Thomas , he again received the Directors Guild of America Award for That Certain Summer (1972) with Hal Holbrook and Martin Sheen .

From then on during movies like The Last American Hero ( The Last American Hero , 1973) with Jeff Bridges and Valerie Perrine , The Execution of Private Slovik (1974) with Martin Sheen and Mariclare Costello , Lipstick (1976) with Margaux Hemingway and Chris Sarandon and One On One (1977) in which he again acted alongside Robby Benson and Annette O'Toole .

In 1978 he Somebody Killed Her Husband (Appointment with Death) with Jeff Bridges and Farrah Fawcett and Off the Minnesota Strip (1980) Hal Holbrook and Pat Hingle , before 1980 in Shogun Assassin of Robert Houston had his last appearance as a film actor.

After the films Crisis at Central High (1981) with Charles Durning and Joanne Woodward , Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981) with Burt Lancaster and Amanda Plummer , Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (Spacehunter - Jäger im All, 1983) with Peter Strauss and Molly Ringwald , he received an Emmy for the first time for Wallenberg: A Hero's Story about the life of Raoul Wallenberg (1985) with Richard Chamberlain and Alice Krige . He also received an Emmy for his miniseries Lincoln (1988) about US President Abraham Lincoln with Sam Waterston .

Most recently he made the films Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase (Schreie aus dem Innern, 1990) with Shelley Long and Tom Conti , Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 ( Katastrophenflug 232 , 1992) with Charlton Heston and Richard Thomas and The Broken Chain with Pierce Brosnan and Graham Greene .

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SURNAME Johnson, Lamont
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnson, Ernest Lamont Jr. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockton , California
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 2010
Place of death Monterey , California