1. Don Wayne Johnson was born on December 15,1949 and is an American actor and singer-songwriter.
45 Facts About Don Johnson
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Don Johnson played the role of James "Sonny" Crockett in the 1980s television series Miami Vice, for which he won a Golden Globe, and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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Don Johnson played the titular character in the 1990s series Nash Bridges.
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Don Johnson has appeared in films such as A Boy and His Dog, Tin Cup, Machete, Django Unchained and Knives Out.
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Don Johnson released the albums Heartbeat and Let It Roll as a singer.
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Don Johnson's cover version of "Heartbeat" peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Don Johnson was born on December 15,1949, in his grandmother's house in Flat Creek, Missouri.
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Don Johnson was raised in Wichita, Kansas, where his parents relocated when he was five years old and where his father worked for Boeing Aircraft.
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Don Johnson has described his childhood as "incredibly dysfunctional and abusive" as his parents were both frequently absent and stressed.
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Don Johnson continued to live with his mother, younger sister and two younger brothers until he was 13, at which time he ended up in juvenile court and was sent to live with his father in Missouri.
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Don Johnson moved back home to Wichita for his senior year of high school, working part-time as a butcher's apprentice and ladies' shoe salesman.
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Don Johnson attended Wichita South High School, from which he graduated in 1967.
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When he was kicked off the school's football team, Don Johnson enrolled in a drama class to earn enough credits to graduate.
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Don Johnson was exposed to the plays of Moliere, Tennessee Williams and Shakespeare.
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Don Johnson was awarded a full scholarship to attend as a drama major.
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Don Johnson continued to work on stage, film and television without breaking into stardom.
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In 1976, Don Johnson was the roommate of actor Sal Mineo at the time Mineo was murdered.
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Don Johnson was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1985.
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Between seasons on Miami Vice, Don Johnson gained further renown through the TV miniseries The Long Hot Summer, a remake of the 1958 film.
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Don Johnson worked on two films with his wife Melanie Griffith, Paradise and Born Yesterday.
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Don Johnson appeared alongside Mickey Rourke in Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, and in Sidney Lumet's thriller Guilty as Sin, opposite Rebecca De Mornay.
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Don Johnson portrayed the title role, an inspector for the San Francisco Police Department.
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In Nash Bridges, Don Johnson was again paired with a flashy convertible car, a yellow 1971 Plymouth Barracuda.
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In January 2007, Johnson began a run in the West End of London production of Guys and Dolls as Nathan Detroit.
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The movie was launched on March 14,2008, in Norway, with Don Johnson making an appearance at the premiere.
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Don Johnson next appeared in When in Rome with Danny DeVito, Anjelica Huston and Kristen Bell.
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Don Johnson had a supporting role in Robert Rodriguez's film Machete.
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Don Johnson played Von Jackson, "a twisted border vigilante leading a small army".
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Don Johnson reprised his role as Sonny Crockett for a Nike commercial with LeBron James in which the NBA player contemplates acting and appears alongside Johnson on Miami Vice.
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Don Johnson had a supporting role in the 2012 Quentin Tarantino film Django Unchained, playing a southern plantation owner named Spencer 'Big Daddy' Bennett.
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In 2014, Johnson starred as the character "Jim Bob" opposite Sam Shepard and Michael C Hall in Jim Mickle's critically acclaimed crime film, Cold in July.
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In 2019, Don Johnson played the role of Richard Drysdale in Rian Don Johnson's murder-mystery Knives Out; and starred as Police Chief Judd Crawford in the HBO series Watchmen.
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In 2021, Don Johnson co-starred on Kenan until its cancellation in May 2022.
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Don Johnson appeared in a Nash Bridges television film with co-star Cheech Marin on the USA Network in 2021.
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Don Johnson released two albums of pop music in the 1980s.
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Don Johnson has been married five times to four women, and has four children with two of them plus one son with Patti D'Arbanville.
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The names of Don Johnson's first two wives have not been made public, though he has said that one of them was a dancer and the other a "rich bimbo".
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Circa 1971, Don Johnson lived with self-described "groupie" Pamela Des Barres.
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In 1980, Don Johnson dated Sally Adams, mother of actress Nicollette Sheridan.
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Don Johnson next had a relationship with Barbra Streisand, lasting into at least September 1988.
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Don Johnson was then briefly involved with Dead Bang co-star Penelope Ann Miller before reuniting with Melanie Griffith.
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Don Johnson entered powerboat racing and sometimes raced with Kurt Russell and Chuck Norris.
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Don Johnson won a 1,100-mile powerboat race up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to St Louis.
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Don Johnson was accompanied in his black Mercedes-Benz by three men: an investment adviser, a personal assistant, and a third unknown individual who could not be identified.
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In May 2008, within hours of losing his Woody Creek, Colorado, home to foreclosure, Don Johnson paid off his $14.5 million debt.