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Arte Johnson
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Actor Born: January 20, 1934 in Benton Harbor, MI Biography:Diminutive (5'4"), bespectacled, sandy-haired "Arte Johnson" built up his early reputation in musical comedy revues. He began toting up film and TV credits in 1955, usually playing goggle-eyed nerds. Johnson was a regular and semi-regular in several sitcoms of the 1950s and 1960s, including "It's Always Jan" (1955), "Sally" (1958), Hennessey (1959-62) and "Don't Call Me Charlie" (1962). Though established as a comedian, Johnson found himself taking more and more villainous supporting roles as the '60s progressed, in films like "The Third Day" (1965) and "The President's Analyst" (1967). Considering himself washed up by 1967, Johnson accepted a slight salary cut to appear as a regular in a new NBC TV project called "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In". Within a year, Johnson was a bigger name than ever before, fracturing audiences with a seemingly inexhaustible variety of characterizations, ranging from his... Full Biography
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