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Arte Johnson
Age: 80
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Birth Place: Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA
Born: Jan. 20th, 1929
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TRIVIA:
- Has donated his scripts and tapes from _"Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" (1967)_ (qv) to his alma mater's communications school.
- Brother of 'Coslough Johnson' (qv).
- Began chemotherapy in October 1997 for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Left for New York when no jobs in Chicago ad agencies opened for him. Worked at Viking Press and developed life-long love of reading and book-collecting.
- His stage name "Arte" came about by accident: Originally billed as "Art E. Johnson", his name was mistakenly posted as "Arte" on a playbill. Johnson liked the look and sound of the name, so he kept it.
- Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 228-229. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
- Graduate of University of Illinois, 1949.
- Says he got first showbiz job by just impulsively stepping into an audition line at Broadway theater, where he was almost immediately chosen for role in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."
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