1. Russell Johnson played Professor Roy Hinkley in Gilligan's Island and Marshal Gib Scott in Black Saddle.
23 Facts About Russell Johnson
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Russell Johnson flew 44 combat missions in the Pacific Theater during World War II as a bombardier in B-25 twin-engined medium bombers.
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Russell Johnson broke both his ankles in the landing, and his bomber's co-pilot was killed.
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Russell Johnson was awarded the Air Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with three campaign stars, the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with one campaign star, and the World War II Victory Medal.
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Russell Johnson was honorably discharged as a first lieutenant on November 22,1945, then joined the United States Air Force Reserve.
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Russell Johnson became a close friend of Audie Murphy and later appeared with him in three of his films, Column South and Tumbleweed in 1953 and Ride Clear of Diablo in 1954.
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Russell Johnson appeared in a Ma and Pa Kettle vehicle, Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki, as well as in Roger Corman's rock-'n'-roll crime drama Rock All Night.
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Russell Johnson played the Sundown Kid in an episode of the 1958 NBC's Western series Jefferson Drum and guest-starred in another NBC Western series, The Californians.
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Russell Johnson appeared four times on the first-run syndicated military drama The Silent Service, based on actual stories of the submarine section of the United States Navy.
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Russell Johnson was cast as Hugh Grafton in episode 28, "The Gar Story", as the executive officer Beach in the 1957 "Tirante Plays a Hunch", appeared twice as submarine officer and later author Edward L Beach Jr.
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Russell Johnson's character brings a murderer from 1880 into the present via a time machine in the season-one episode "Execution".
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Russell Johnson appeared on The Outer Limits in 1964, playing a crewmember on a United States space station in the episode "Specimen: Unknown".
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Russell Johnson was best known for playing Professor Roy Hinkley, the very knowledgeable polymath who could build all sorts of inventions out of the most rudimentary materials available on the island.
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Russell Johnson was cast in the miniseries Vanished, based on a novel by Fletcher Knebel, the TV horror movie The Horror at 37,000 Feet, uncredited in the Robert Redford spy thriller Three Days of the Condor, the low-budget thriller Hitch Hike to Hell, and appeared on the episode "Coffee, Tea or Cyanide" on McMillan and Wife in 1977, and on the NBC soap opera Santa Barbara.
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Russell Johnson provided the narration for the animated-short episodes of The Adventures of Stevie and Zoya that appeared on MTV during the mid-1980s.
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Russell Johnson played the sheriff in a season 9 episode of Dallas.
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Russell Johnson entertained fans at the 1996 MST3K Conventio-Con-Expo-Fest-a-Rama 2: Electric Boogaloo on the "Celebrity Panel".
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Russell Johnson was invited for his role in the movie-within-a-movie of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, This Island Earth, but spent most of the time answering questions about his Gilligan's Island days.
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Russell Johnson once participated in the Ig Nobel award presentation ceremony, credited as "The Professor Emeritus of Gilligan's Island".
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Russell Johnson had a number of guest roles in the radio series The Adventures of Harry Nile, one of the "Imagination Theater" series produced by Jim French.
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In 1982, Russell Johnson married Constance "Connie" Dane, and became stepfather to her son, Courtney Dane.
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Russell Johnson collaborated with writer Steve Cox on a memoir, Here on Gilligan's Isle, published in 1993.
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Russell Johnson died from kidney failure at his home in Bainbridge Island, Washington, on January 16,2014, aged 89.