Brad Johnson, Star of Always and Left Behind Series, Dies At 62 - Cause Of Death
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
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The Hollywood Reporter confirmed on Thursday that actor Brad Johnson died in February due to complications from COVID-19. He was best known to many for his role in Steven Spielberg’s 1989 fantasy-drama Always, in which he and Richard Dreyfuss both vie for the heart of Holly Hunter.
Johnson worked consistently in television and cable movies throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, and was the co-lead in the Left Behind series. He was 62 years old.
The Arizona-born Johnson was raised on a cattle ranch, and quit business school just shy of his degree to accept a rodeo scholarship at the College of Southern Idaho. He worked on the rodeo circuit full time, but injured his knee in 1986.
Then found work as a model, representing Calvin Klein, Busch beer, and, yes, Marlboro cigarettes.
“The Marlboro Man was a fixture in American culture. For the longest time he was on the same level as 007,” Johnson reflected about his position in tar-stained American folklore for MEL Magazine in 2019. He confessed, however, that he never was a smoker.
Always was Johnson’s first substantial acting gig, and while it didn’t catapult him to superstardom, he was rarely without work, appearing in films like The Philadelphia Experiment II and on episodes of the Outer Limit reboot. He starred opposite Danny Glover and Willem Dafoe in John Milius’s Flight of the Intruder in 1991, and was Daphne Zuniga’s love interest Dr. Dominick O’Malley on the mid-‘90s nighttime soap Melrose Place.
In the late 1990s he led the syndicated action series Soldier of Fortune, Inc. the first Simpson/Bruckheimer production for television. Its second and final season co-starred Dennis Rodman.
In 2000, Johnson appeared with Kirk Cameron as co-lead in Left Behind: The Movie, which went from a direct-to-video release to a theatrical run. The adventure-drama series was based on Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins's end-of-days novels targeted to the Christian market. Though not the breakout hit that some faith-based films were that followed it, it was still groundbreaking, and had enough for a legacy for reboots and spin-offs.
“Brad greatly enjoyed improving and enhancing land, in a way that maintained and respected its natural beauty. He always felt most at home outdoors, and his passion for the land made that evident. As much as he loved cowboying, hunting and land, Brad loved nothing more than his family,” his family said in a statement.
The actor is survived by his wife Laurie, and their eight children.
Rest in peace, Brad.
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He is a joy to watch on screen. I will always watch his work! He will never be forgotten. BRAD JOHNSON...
I did not know this until recently. Watched Left Behind and happened to look at his Wikipedia. So sad. Rip Brad Johnson. Prayers for his family.
R. I. P. amazing actor😪 Very sadness...
What an ideal man♡
God bless you & ALL your love ones++
He was a great man and I was proud to know him as my neighbor I didn’t even realize he was the actor when I first met him because he didn’t act like it he came over and helped me change tires on my tractor and bought me a new tractor seat he was a good man and definitely missed in Forestburg Texas
I've just discovered his movies and have watched all of them. He was a great actor and sounds like a great family man. He was breathtakingly handsome. He passed way too young. His family should be very proud of him. He made his mark in this world. He should have been more famous! Rest in Peace and may God be with you in the afterlife Brad/.
Brad Johnson wasn't raised on a cattle ranch in Arizona! I made earlier comment about his early life living in the Grants Pass Oregon area. His Grants Pass High School Class picture can be seen in the Grants Pass High School TOKA Yearbooks! Someone's misrepresented information about Brad Johnson, he probably did get noticed in Idaho in Rodeo Circuit, to be made Marlboro Man, and even his relatives information can be traced to the Wilderville area near Grants Pass. I sat in same classes such as Vocational Agriculture and Drama as he attended at Lincoln Savage Middle School in Murphy not far from GP out Williams Highway. Look it up😮 Some of my former classmates also would verify fact about his being a fellow student in our school. I'm certain that Kathie Steel, Catherine McMurphy, and others would remember him from our school days back in 1970's. Oregon is quite a distance from Arizona.
Always loved this guy. So handsome. Loved his acting parts as well. Sorry he got covid. So many great people were taken from us. I pray his family is doing well. RIP.
RIP A VERY GREAT ACTOR--BRAD--
Brad Johnson attended Lincoln Savage Middle School located at Murphy area of Grants Pass Oregon during 1972, 1973, 1974, and he was an student at Grants Pass High School and his school picture can be found in the Grants Pass High School Toka Yearbooks 1975, 1976, 1977. I remember him from our Vocational Agriculture Class at Lincoln Savage, Mr. Bickle was our teacher. Brad rode the same District 7 School Bus to and from school as I and he picked on me quite a bit. He got off the bus along Stringer Gap Road and Sleepy Hollow Loop not far from Jerome Prairie and Wilderville. On one particular occasion as our Vo Ag Class were on a field trip to go snow toboggan at Crater Lake he wrestled with me in the back of our teacher's pickup truck trying to force me to kiss him, which I was able to defend myself while riding in Mr. Bickle's truck canopy. He was a pain in the A to me, but I hope his manners improved later in his life. I used to dread being near him whether in classroom, on the bus, or anywhere on school grounds, even though he played part of the villian in a school play of our Drama Class, in a western, I and my friend Erline Swearingen played parts as saloon girls. He was perfect for the part. Also, during 1990 thereabouts time frame, my sister-in-law Betty McAllister's daughter, Cathy Mendoza (married name now: Cofer), was being courted by Brad Johnson, Cathy was underaged teenage girl, she very pretty girl, but still underaged and she was excited about their romance, she so excited about him picking her up in a limousine taking her out on their dates. I wasn't impressed about this at all, I remember scolding her about him being too old for her telling her about our school days that we were in some classes together at Lincoln Savage but she wouldn't take my advice and date someone closer to her age. I found out later that he actually had a wife and children living somewhere in Texas while he dating young teenage Cathy! I realize that he must've been in the Grants Pass area to visit his relatives that lived in Wilderville which is about ten miles west of Grants Pass, Oregon. Shame on him! 😢 Cathy has grown up and is happily married with children, and Grandchildren and still living in Grants Pass Oregon.😊 I hope this added info to the Life of a Famous Person, because you definitely won't read what I know and remember about my life spent with him in any Hollywood Actor Biography about him.
He was killed in the hospital just like so many!
Yep, by not giving him medication that might have saved him. And all due to unconstitutional, evil policies enforced by evil people, who are still running and destroying this country from within. Only prayer can save America now, whether or not you believe it.