Van Johnson

All Movies of Van Johnson

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 Year

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  Clowning Around
   1992

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  4.0
  Killer Crocodile
   1989

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  Down There in the Jungle
   1988

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  Bacall on Bogart (Great Performances) (TV)
  Lauren Bacall tells the story of her late husband Humphrey Bogart, presenting clips from his movies and interview clips with his peers.
  Character: Self

   1988

• 
  7.7
  The Purple Rose of Cairo
  It’s the Depression and Cecilia works herself into the ground as a waitress in New Jersey while her husband does nothing. Her only outlet is the cinema, to which she returns time and again to escape from reality and dream of a w...
  Character: Larry Wilde

   1985

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  The Kidnapping of the President
  During a diplomatic visit to Toronto, the U.S. President Adam Scott (Hal Holbrook) is abducted by a South American terrorist, Roberto Assanti (Miguel Fernandes), and his female accomplice, and is held captive in an armored truck b...
  Character: Vice President Ethan Richards

   1980

• 
  7.7
  Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series)
  TV Series (1979-1988). 9 seasons. 112 episodes. A British anthology of mystery, suspense, horror and black comedy, highlighted by plot twists and surprise endings (in the early seasons, all by Roald Dahl), with lots of prestigious...
  Character:  Gerry T. Armstrong 1 episode, 1983

   1979

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  Black Beauty (TV Miniseries)
  The ninth and most elaborate film production based on Anna Sewell's novel with the same title.
   1978

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  San Francisco International Airport (TV Series)
  TV Series (1970). 1 season. 7 episodes. About the various problems that can happen at a large metropolitan airport.
   1970

• 
  5.0
  Eagles Over London (Battle Squadron)
  War film which tackles the same events as the big-budgeted BATTLE OF Britain (1969), but from an entirely different perspective - the infiltration of German spies into London prior to the Luftwaffe's aerial attack in order to dest...
   1969

• 
  5.0
  Yours, Mine and Ours
  When a widower with 10 children marries a widow with 8, can the 20 of them ever come together as one big happy family? From finding a house big enough for all of them and learning to make 18 school lunches, to coping with a son go...
   1968

• 
  6.5
  Divorce American Style
  After 17 years, married life has become predictable and stale for Richard and Barbara Harmon. After splitting up, they discover divorced life is even worse!
  Character: Al Yearling

   1967

• 
  8.0
  Wives and Lovers
   1963

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  The Enemy General
  Character: Allan Lemaire

   1960

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  Beyond This Place
  Twenty years after being evacuated to America, Paul Mathry returns to Liverpool for a short visit. He is shocked to find that his father, whom he believed had died a war hero, is in fact in jail for a murder committed at the time ...
   1959

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  The Pied Piper of Hamelin (TV)
  The Pied Piper (Van Johnson) is first spotted working magic in Hamelin by a disabled boy, Paul, and playing his signature tune In the Hall of the Mountain King. Paul tells his best friend, the schoolteacher Truson (=true son), als...
   1957

• 
  6.8
  Kelly and Me
  Flop vaudeville performer Len Carmody is adopted by Kelly, a trained dog abandoned by Malo's dog act. When Kelly joins Len's ho-hum song and dance, a popular comedy act is born. On the train, Len meets young Mina Van Runkel, daugh...
  Character: Len Carmody

   1957

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  The Bottom of the Bottle
  Patrick Martin (Joseph Cotten), known as P.M., is a wealthy attorney and rancher big-man-in-town in the border town of Nogales, Arizona. He returns home to find his brother Donald (Van Johnson) hiding in his garage. A former drunk...
   1956

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  23 Paces to Baker Street
  Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a suspicious conversation, that leads him into a desperate race, to find the accomplices. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and hi...
   1956

• 
  6.7
  The End of the Affair
  In wartorn London Maurice Bendrix falls in love with neighbor Sarah Miles. They begin an illicit romance behind Sarah's husband's back. While war does not last forever, neither does love in this existentialist tale.
  Character: Maurice Bendrix

   1955

• 
  6.0
  Siege at Red River
  Cavalry Captain Farraday attempts to prevent the delivery of Gatling Guns into the hands of hostile Indians.
   1954

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  Men of the Fighting Lady
   1954

• 
  7.0
  The Caine Mutiny
  During the Second World War, onboard a small insignificant ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experianced. A Ship's Captain is removed from his command by his Executive ...
  Character: Lt. Steve Maryk

   1954

• 
  6.1
  The Last Time I Saw Paris
  Charles returns to Paris to reminisce about the life he led in Paris after it was liberated. He worked on "Stars and Stripes" when he met Marion and Helen. He would marry and be happy staying in Paris after his discharge...
  Character: Charles Wills

   1954

• 
  7.7
  Brigadoon
  Americans Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, on a hunting vacation in Scotland, discover a quaint and beautiful village, Brigadoon. Strangely, the village is not on any map, and soon Tommy and Jeff find out why: Brigadoon is an ench...
  Character: Jeff Douglas

   1954

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  Remains to Be Seen
  A girl vocalist and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
  Character: Waldo Williams

   1953

• 
  7.2
  The Greatest Show on Earth
  To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in ...
   1952

• 
  6.5
  Plymouth Adventure
  The story of the voyage of the "Mayflower" to the New World. En route, Captain Jones tries to seduce the wife of William Bradford, will she remain faithful?
   1952

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  It's a Big Country
  The story, told in eight episodes, covers different facets of the American Spirit, from racial and religious tolerance to the dangers of self-centeredness and myopic reasoning.
   1951

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  Grounds for Marriage
  Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett.
   1951

• 
  7.4
  Go for Broke!
  A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with Japanese-American volunteers. We follow the training of a platoon under the rueful command of Lt. Mike Grayson who shares common pr...
  Character: Lt. Michael Grayson

   1951

• 
  6.5
  Too Young to Kiss?
  Eric Wainwright (Van Johnson), a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter (June Allyson), a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When...
  Character: Eric Wainwright

   1951

• 
  6.0
  The Big Hangover
  A law school graduate is hired by a top law firm but hides from them a secret about a problem he has--he is so allergic to alcohol that one whiff of it and he passes out like a light.
  Character: David Muldon

   1950

• 
  6.0
  Mother Is a Freshman
  Widow Abby Abbott is having serious money problems and has to dip into the family trust in order to pay for her daughter Susan's college tuition. The catch: Abby must also become a co-ed or she can't touch the money. After passing...
  Character: Professor Richard Michaels

   1949

• 
  7.0
  Battleground
  December, 1944. The Nazis, in the face of the onrushing Allies, turned and pushed into the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxembourg for what would be their last major offensive of World War II. During the Battle of the Bulge, as ...
  Character: Holley

   1949

• 
  7.1
  State of the Union
  Kay Thordyke loves Grant Matthews and helps him become Republican nominee for President. The party machine begins to worry as Grant begins to speak for himself. At an important dinner his wife Mary condemns corrupt politicians and...
  Character: 'Spike' McManus

   1948

• 
  6.7
  Command Decision
  Army generals struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing the German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.
  Character: Technical Sergeant Immanuel T. Evans

   1948

• 
  6.4
  High Barbaree
  Van Johnson is a navy pilot in WWII, who has been shot down in the Pacific on a bombing mission. He and a wounded comrade are the only survivors of the mission and are lost at sea. As they await rescue, Van Johnson recants his lif...
  Character: Alec Brooke

   1947

• 
  6.3
  Till the Clouds Roll By
  Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.
  Character: Bandleader in Elite Club

   1946

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  Week-End at the Waldorf
  Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks...
   1945

• 
  7.6
  The White Cliffs of Dover
  It tells the story of an American girl who travels abroad to England and falls in love with an English aristocrat. The girl marries the Englishman but their honeymoon is cut short on its first day as World War I breaks out. The hu...
  Character: Sam Bennett

   1944

• 
  6.8
  Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
  This is the story of the famed raid over Tokyo in April 1942 led by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle. The film concentrates on Lt. Ted Lawson the commander of a B25, the 'Ruptured Duck', and its crew. Having accepted the mission without r...
  Character: Ted Lawson

   1944

• 
  6.5
  Two Girls and a Sailor
  A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him.
  Character: John Dyckman Brown III

   1944

• 
  5.9
  3 Men in White
  Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it's another diagnosis competition. Lee's assignment is a small girl who falls ill whenever she eats candy. Re...
  Character: Dr. Randall 'Red' Ames

   1944

• 
  6.9
  Madame Curie
  Young Polish physics student Marie marries Doctor Pierre Curie, in whose lab she had worked for a while. On their honeymoon they decide to find out what caused the strange effect Prof. Becquerel has noticed with the uranium/thoriu...
  Character: Reporter

   1943

• 
  7.3
  The Human Comedy
  Recently-deceased Matthew Macauley looks down upon his family in small-town Ithaca, where eldest son Marcus has departed to await deployment for combat in the Second World War. This leaves middle son Homer to support the family, w...
  Character: Marcus Macauley

   1943

• 
  6.5
  A Guy Named Joe
  A sentimental, patriotic (if not propagandistic) Hollywood fantasy about a dead World War II bomber pilot, Maj. Pete Sandidge (Tracy) who becomes guardian angel to another pilot, Capt. Ted Randall (Johnson), guiding Randall throug...
  Character: Ted Randall

   1943

• 
  6.0
  Somewhere I'll Find You
  Two brothers, both war correspondents, vie for the affection of the same girl at the beginning of World War II, and later find her doing orphan work in China.
  Character: Lieutenant Wade Hall

   1942

• 
  6.0
  The War Against Mrs. Hadley
  In this WW II propaganda piece a wealthy American society matron refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freed
   1942

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  Murder in the Big House
  When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy. His investigation reveals that the condemned man was about to reveal some damaging information about the...
  Character: Bert Bell

   1942