BEN JOHNSON - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 75209
Sale Price $195.00
Reg. $240.00
BEN JOHNSON
The Western Performers Hall of Famer is shown from the chest up
wearing a cowboy hat in this black and white photograph.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To my good/friend Mary/Always
your/friend.Ben Johnson". B/w, 8x10. 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.
Fine condition.
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