John Dennis Johnston

John Dennis Johnston

Born: May 14, 1950
in Elmwood, Nebraska, USA
John Dennis Johnston was born on May 14, 1950 in Elmwood, Nebraska, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for 48 Hrs. (1982), Wyatt Earp (1994) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).

Movies for John Dennis Johnston...

Lady Belladonna's Tales From The Inferno
Title: Lady Belladonna's Tales From The Inferno
Character: Larry / Left Hemisphere (segment "7 Doors")
Released: October 5, 2019
Type: Movie
Lady Belladonna is back with another round of suspenseful tales from Pandora's Box, including a vengeful vampire, a misplaced curse, an alien invasion and more tantalizing trips beyond the veil.
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Title: The Client List
Character: Coach Steff
Released: April 8, 2012
Type: TV
Riley Parks delicately balances two starkly different lives -- one as a single mom in a conservative town struggling to provide for her family and the other as a savvy and ambitious businesswoman working with a rowdy, sexy and unpredictable group of women.
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Title: Supernatural
Character: Pa Bender
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
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Title: Without a Trace
Character: Patrick Orton
Released: September 26, 2002
Type: TV
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
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Title: Dark Angel
Released: October 3, 2000
Type: TV
Super soldier Max Guevera tries to live a normal life in post-apocalyptic Seattle while eluding capture by government agents from the covert biotech facility she escaped from as a child and searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters who have dispersed after escape.
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Purgatory
Title: Purgatory
Character: Lamb / 'Lefty' Slade
Released: January 10, 1999
Type: Movie
An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals such as Doc Holiday and Wild Bill Hickok who must redeem themselves before gaining admittance to Heaven... or screw up and go to Hell.
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Joseph's Gift
Title: Joseph's Gift
Character: Parker
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Joseph is the youngest member of a large family that owns a successful garment business in Los Angeles. His father, Jacob, makes no attempt at hiding the fact that Joseph is his favorite son, resulting in the constant envy and resentment of his brothers. Eventually, in their bitterness, they plot revenge against this favored son. When Joseph accompanies his brothers on a trip to New York, they commit the ultimate betrayal, stranding him there, a virtual prisoner in a corrupt, modern-day sweat shop.
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Heartwood
Title: Heartwood
Character: Carl Burris
Released: April 19, 1998
Type: Movie
When a large corporation threatens to take over a small town's primary business and put half of the town's population out of work, sawmill owner Logan Reeser is the only one who can stand in their way.
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Snide and Prejudice
Title: Snide and Prejudice
Character: Sheffield
Released: May 11, 1997
Type: Movie
At a mental institution, the resident physician, Dr Cohen, encourages his patients who believe they are important Nazi figures to act out their fantasies. The therapy sessions show Hitler consolidating his power by assembling his gang of supporters; however, they are interrupted at times, once because Davidson's uniform is at the dry cleaners, and another time because a patient who believes he is Picasso interrupts a session.
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The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Title: The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Character: Tony Vickers
Released: May 19, 1996
Type: Movie
A mini-series dramatization of the controversial 1992 attack by federal agents on the Idaho home of Randy Weaver, a white seperatist. The ten-day siege, begun over a minor gun charge, resulted in the deaths of Weaver's son, wife and dog, and a U.S. Marshall. The incident caused major public outcry against the FBI and U.S. Marshals.
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A Walk in the Clouds
Title: A Walk in the Clouds
Character: Lout #1
Released: May 27, 1995
Type: Movie
World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
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In Pursuit of Honor
Title: In Pursuit of Honor
Character: Sgt. Thomas Mulcahey
Released: March 18, 1995
Type: Movie
To save a group of horses slated to be destroyed by the US Cavalry, a group of officers rebel and begin a journey towards Canada to save themselves and the mounts.
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Title: ER
Character: Mr. Hearn
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Art Deco Detective
Title: Art Deco Detective
Character: Arthur Decowitz
Released: September 16, 1994
Type: Movie
While investigating the murder of a movie star, a detective finds that he himself is being set up for the crime.
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Wyatt Earp
Title: Wyatt Earp
Character: Frank Stillwell
Released: June 24, 1994
Type: Movie
From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than family and the law. Joined by his brothers and Doc Holliday, Earp wages war on the dreaded Clanton and McLaury gangs.
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Title: Highlander: The Series
Character: Carl the Hermit
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: TV
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
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In the Best Interest of the Children
Title: In the Best Interest of the Children
Character: Harlan Pepper
Released: February 16, 1992
Type: Movie
Fact-based story of a legal battle fought over custody of five siblings.
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Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story
Title: Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story
Character: Roger Wilson
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
This film is based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos a prostitute-turned-serial killer who preyed mostly on truck drivers.
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Miracle in the Wilderness
Title: Miracle in the Wilderness
Character: Sgt. Sam Webster
Released: December 9, 1991
Type: Movie
While being pursued by the U.S. Cavalry, Indians and the white family they have kidnapped learn about each other.
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Fever
Title: Fever
Character: Jellyroll
Released: May 11, 1991
Type: Movie
Fresh out of prison, all Ray wants is to get back with Lacy, but she's in a stable relationship now with Elliott, a pacifist, and wants nothing to do with him. When she's kidnapped by Ray's former associates, he and Elliott must team up to save the woman they love.
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Title: Shades of L.A.
Released: October 10, 1990
Type: TV
Shades of L.A. is an American crime drama television series that aired from October 10, 1990 until April 6, 1991. Det. Michael Burton of the Los Angeles Police Department is a casual cop until he finds himself in limbo after a bullet grazes his head. He finds himself surrounded by "shades" - spirits trapped between heaven and hell until they can complete any unfinished business on earth. Once resuscitated, he can still see the "shades" so goes about helping them.
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Murder in Mississippi
Title: Murder in Mississippi
Character: Hatchet-Faced Man
Released: February 5, 1990
Type: Movie
In 1964, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three Civil Rights workers who had traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registration. Examines the last three weeks in the lives of the slain activists.
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Communion
Title: Communion
Character: Fireman
Released: November 10, 1989
Type: Movie
A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
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Pink Cadillac
Title: Pink Cadillac
Character: Waycross
Released: May 26, 1989
Type: Movie
A bounty hunter helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types.
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Longarm
Title: Longarm
Character: Carson
Released: March 6, 1988
Type: Movie
A showdown is staged between a U.S. deputy marshal and the outlaw gang that raised him in the New Mexico Territory of 1887.
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Title: Frank's Place
Character: Bobby Day
Released: September 14, 1987
Type: TV
Frank's Place is an American comedy-drama series which aired on CBS for 22 episodes during the 1987-1988 television season. The series was created by Hugh Wilson and executive produced by Wilson and series star Tim Reid. Frank's Place is the most recent show that ran for only one season which was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. TV Guide ranked it #3 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".
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The Squeeze
Title: The Squeeze
Character: Nick
Released: July 10, 1987
Type: Movie
Harry Berg is both a con artist and an actual artist -- he constructs large sculptures out of television sets -- but he is not particularly successful in either role. He owes some money, which gets him involved with Rachel Dobs, a police detective who works with a collection agency. When Harry comes into possession of a strange parcel, both the con man and the detective find themselves wrapped up in a sinister corporate plot to fix the lottery.
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Extreme Prejudice
Title: Extreme Prejudice
Character: Merv
Released: April 24, 1987
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...
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Title: Married... with Children
Character: Jimmy
Released: April 5, 1987
Type: TV
Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.
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Into Thin Air
Title: Into Thin Air
Character: Earl Pike
Released: October 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to investigate, Walker takes matters into her own hands. She and her ex-husband begin a search, but when their son's van is found in Maine brandishing stolen plates, they fear the worst. Now, it's up to a private detective to uncover the chilling truth in this absorbing drama based on a true story.
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Title: MacGyver
Character: Eddie Porter
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.
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Title: The Golden Girls
Character: Merrill
Released: September 14, 1985
Type: TV
Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Bright, promiscuous, clueless and hilarious, these lovely, mismatched ladies form the perfect circle of friends.
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Flesh + Blood
Title: Flesh + Blood
Character: Summer
Released: August 30, 1985
Type: Movie
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
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Pale Rider
Title: Pale Rider
Character: Deputy Tucker
Released: June 28, 1985
Type: Movie
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
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My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
Title: My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
Character: Billy Welch
Released: January 21, 1985
Type: Movie
The life and wanton times of Errol Flynn
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Streets of Fire
Title: Streets of Fire
Character: Pete the Mechanic
Released: June 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Raven Shaddock and his gang of merciless biker friends kidnap rock singer Ellen Aim. Ellen's former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody, happens to be passing through town on a visit. In an attempt to save his star act, Ellen's manager hires Tom to rescue her. Along with a former soldier, they battle through dangerous cityscapes, determined to get Ellen back.
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A Breed Apart
Title: A Breed Apart
Character: Miller
Released: June 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
Title: Twilight Zone: The Movie
Character: Co-Pilot
Released: June 24, 1983
Type: Movie
An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."
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Title: The A-Team
Character: Archer
Released: January 23, 1983
Type: TV
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."
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Title: The A-Team
Character: Snake
Released: January 23, 1983
Type: TV
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."
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48 Hrs.
Title: 48 Hrs.
Character: Torchy's Patron
Released: December 7, 1982
Type: Movie
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
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Title: St. Elsewhere
Character: Nick Moats
Released: October 26, 1982
Type: TV
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions.
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The Executioner's Song
Title: The Executioner's Song
Character: Jimmy Poker-Game
Released: September 10, 1982
Type: Movie
In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. As their relationship quickly deteriorates, Gary goes on a murderous rampage, leaving two dead. During his trial, he demands capital punishment; a media circus ensues and outsiders look to profit from his story.
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Title: T. J. Hooker
Character: Cliff Tanner
Released: March 13, 1982
Type: TV
Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recuits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.
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The Beast Within
Title: The Beast Within
Character: Horace Platt
Released: February 12, 1982
Type: Movie
A horrified teen mutates into a crazed cannibalistic swamp creature, and must uncover the terrifying secret identity of his father before his nasty natural tendencies force him to make jambalaya out of the locals.
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The Ambush Murders
Title: The Ambush Murders
Character: Lionel Borland
Released: January 5, 1982
Type: Movie
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims that he will help free him.
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The Killing of Randy Webster
Title: The Killing of Randy Webster
Character: Officer Bob Draxel
Released: March 11, 1981
Type: Movie
When his teenage son is shot by the Houston police following a stolen van chase, his father undertakes a tireless investigation into the truth and uncovers the fact that the gun found with the boy's body was a "throwdown," a weapon planted by the cops.
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The Rose
Title: The Rose
Character: Milledge
Released: November 7, 1979
Type: Movie
Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.
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KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
Title: KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
Character: Chopper
Released: October 26, 1979
Type: Movie
The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Devereaux. Devereaux has found a way to clone humans into robots in his laboratory at an amusement park. It just so happens that he plans to use the KISS concert as a platform to unleash his plan on the world. KISS must use their special powers to stop him.
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Dear Detective
Title: Dear Detective
Character: Det. Clay
Released: March 27, 1979
Type: Movie
A female homicide detective is assigned to solve the murders of a series of local officials.
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The Jordan Chance
Title: The Jordan Chance
Character: Lew Mayfield
Released: December 12, 1978
Type: Movie
Jordan Chance was wrongfully imprisoned for ten years. Upon release, he becomes a lawyer and investigates the case of a Mexican woman convicted of murder. The local police give him every reason to believe she was railroaded to ease a tense racial status quo, and they will stop at almost nothing to prevent the case from being reopened.
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Steel Cowboy
Title: Steel Cowboy
Character: Bobby 'Bob' Hicks
Released: December 6, 1978
Type: Movie
An independent trucker, trying to keep his marriage alive and his rig out of the hands of bill collectors, agrees to haul a cargo of stolen cattle with his good ol' buddy.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Title: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Character: Special Forces
Released: December 14, 1977
Type: Movie
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
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Annie Hall
Title: Annie Hall
Character: L.A. Policeman
Released: April 19, 1977
Type: Movie
New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
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Title: Code R
Character: Ralph
Released: January 21, 1977
Type: TV
Code R is an American action-adventure television series that aired on CBS from January 21 to June 10, 1977. Code R focuses on the emergency services of the California Channel Islands. The series stars James Houghton, Martin Kove and Tom Simcox and ran for a single season of thirteen episodes.
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I Want to Keep My Baby!
Title: I Want to Keep My Baby!
Character: Rico
Released: November 19, 1976
Type: Movie
A 15-year-old girl becomes pregnant by her boyfriend and decides to keep the baby and raise her on her own, instead of initially choosing abortion at the insistence of her boyfriend, or raising the baby at home with her meddling mother.
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Title: Charlie's Angels
Character: Jerry Adams
Released: September 22, 1976
Type: TV
Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could dream of... and way more than they could ever handle! Receiving their orders via speaker phone from their never seen boss, Charlie, the Angels employ their incomparable sleuthing and combat skills, as well as their lethal feminine charm, to crack even the most seemingly insurmountable of cases.
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Title: The Rockford Files
Character: Grady Northcourt
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.
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Title: The Rockford Files
Character: Henry Schlager
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.