BEN JOHNSON - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 212919
Price: $220.00
BEN JOHNSON
The Western Performers Hall of Famer is shown a top a horse wearing a
cowboy hat in this 8½x11 advertisement for Roper Apparel.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Oscar/Your friend./Ben
Johnson". Color, 8½x11. Photo is an advertisement for Roper Apparel. The
winner of the 1971 Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor
for his portrayal of Sam the Lion in The Last Picture Show, Ben
Johnson (1918-1996) was a former ranch hand and rodeo performer before
starting in films as a wrangler, stuntman and double for such stars as John
Wayne, Gary Cooper and James Stewart. After being cast in such features as
Mighty Joe Young (1949), Rio Grande (1950) and Wagon Master
(1950), Johnson left Hollywood to return to the rodeo in 1953, but soon returned
to movies, appearing in more than 300 films over his career. The star of such
films as Shane (1953), Cheyenne Autumn (1964), The Wild
Bunch (1969), Chisum (1970), The Sugarland Express (1974) and
Radio Flyer (1992), Johnson was also an early TV performer,
appearing on shows, primarily Westerns, from 1956-1986. In 1996 he was
inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame. Light corner creases.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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