Arte Johnson was born January 20,1929, in Benton Harbor, Michigan, the son of Abraham Lincoln and Edythe Mackenzie Arte Johnson.
32 Facts About Arte Johnson
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Arte Johnson graduated from Austin High School and received a bachelor's degree in radio journalism from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1949, where he worked at the campus radio station and the University of Illinois Theater Guild with his brother Coslough "Cos" Arte Johnson.
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In early 1954, Arte Johnson performed in several New York nightclubs, including Le Ruban Bleu and the Village Vanguard.
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Arte Johnson appeared in Ben Bagley's The Shoestring Revue, which opened off-Broadway on February 28,1955, at the President Theater in New York.
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In 1956 a young Arte Johnson appeared in episode 22 Season 3 of the Make Room for Daddy in an episode called "Who can figure kids" where he sang and danced.
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Arte Johnson played Ariel Lavalerra in the 1960 film The Subterraneans, an adaptation of Jack Kerouac's 1958 novel of the same name.
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Arte Johnson was cast in an episode of Frank Aletter's sitcom Bringing Up Buddy.
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Arte Johnson appeared in an episode of The Twilight Zone titled "The Whole Truth".
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Arte Johnson played a bumbling navy cameraman on an episode of McHale's Navy in the first season and The Andy Griffith Show as a hotel clerk in the episode "Andy and Barney in the Big City".
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Arte Johnson appeared in a comedic role as Charlie, a boom-microphone operator who demonstrates to Jack Benny how to tell a joke properly, on The Jack Benny Program that aired on October 2,1964.
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Arte Johnson made a guest appearance on ABC's sitcom, Bewitched as Samantha's Cousin Edgar in the final episode of the first season, airing on June 2,1965.
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Also in 1965, Arte Johnson played a rare dramatic supporting role in the film The Third Day as Lester Aldrich, who turns out to be the downtrodden husband of the sleazy nymphomaniac Holly.
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Arte Johnson appeared in one of the final episodes of ABC's The Donna Reed Show in 1966.
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Arte Johnson was cast in the satirical James Coburn film The President's Analyst, in which he gave a comically chilling performance as a federal agent with a blindly obedient "orders are orders" mentality.
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Arte Johnson appeared in the Season 3 episode of Lost in Space titled "Princess of Space".
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Arte Johnson starred in an episode of Rod Serling's Night Gallery titled "The Flip-Side of Satan".
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Arte Johnson reprised the role briefly on Sesame Street in the early 1970s, and while voicing the Nazi-inspired character Virman Vundabar on an episode of Justice League Unlimited.
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Arte Johnson would ask her a question, and regardless of the answer, turn it into a double entendre.
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Arte Johnson appeared in the first season of the Detroit-produced children's show Hot Fudge and, for one week, as a celebrity guest panelist on the game show Match Game.
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From 1976 to 1980, Arte Johnson was a regular celebrity guest judge on The Gong Show.
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Arte Johnson voiced the character "Rhubarb" on The Houndcats and appeared as a guest on Canadian TV show Celebrity Cooks with host Bruno Gerussi.
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Arte Johnson appeared on an episode of the NBC daytime version of Wheel of Fortune in September 1977 as a substitute letter-turner, both to fill in for an injured Susan Stafford, and to promote his short-lived NBC game show Knockout, which aired through early 1978.
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Arte Johnson was cast as Renfield, the comic sidekick of George Hamilton's Dracula in the film Love at First Bite and appeared in the all-star television disaster film Condominium.
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Arte Johnson voiced "Weerd" in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, and played a disgruntled employee denied severance pay in an episode of Airwolf.
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Arte Johnson guest-starred in the Murder, She Wrote episode "No Laughing Murder".
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Arte Johnson appeared in an episode of Night Court.
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From 1991 to 1992, Arte Johnson appeared in multiple episodes of General Hospital as Finian O'Toole.
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Arte Johnson played the old laboratory head of a team of scientists working on a serum of youth in Second Chance.
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Arte Johnson performed more than 80 audiobook readings, including Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan and Carl Hiaasen's Bad Monkey.
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Arte Johnson appeared in the Justice League Unlimited episode "The Ties That Bind" as the voice of Virman Vundabar.
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Arte Johnson was a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor, having been diagnosed and successfully treated in 1997.
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Arte Johnson died on July 3,2019, after being ill for three years with bladder and prostate cancer.