Lamont Johnson attended Pasadena Junior College and UCLA and was active in theatrical productions at both schools.
11 Facts About Lamont Johnson
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When he was 16, Johnson began his career in radio, eventually playing the role of Tarzan in a popular syndicated series in 1951.
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Lamont Johnson worked as a newscaster and a disc jockey.
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Lamont Johnson was one of several actors to play Archie Goodwin in The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, opposite Sydney Greenstreet on NBC Radio.
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Lamont Johnson then turned to films and television, first as an actor, then as a director.
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Lamont Johnson's directing debut came in 1948 with the play Yes Is For a Very Young Man in New York.
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Lamont Johnson's television directing debut was on an episode of NBC Matinee Theater.
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Lamont Johnson directed productions of the operas The Man in the Moon, Iphigenie en Tauride, and Orfeo, and he directed an installment of the series Felicity plus the TV movie The Man Next Door.
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Lamont Johnson was nominated in the same category for Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232, Unnatural Causes, Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter, Fear on Trial, The Execution of Private Slovik and That Certain Summer.
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Lamont Johnson won five Directors Guild of America Awards, winning in the category Movies for Television and Mini-Series for Lincoln and for That Certain Summer.
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Lamont Johnson died of heart failure in Monterey, California, October 24,2010.