Ben Johnson
Birthday: 1918-06-13
Place of Birth: Foraker, Shidler, Oklahoma, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ben "Son" Johnson, Jr. (June 13, 1918 – April 8, 1996) was an American motion picture actor who was mainly cast in Westerns. He was also a rodeo cowboy, stuntman, and rancher. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Johnson (actor) , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Wild Bunch
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappea...
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Will Penny
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the prop...
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Shane
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and ra...
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Red Dawn
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defen...
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Hang 'em High
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To c...
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The Evening Star
Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora...
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Hustle
The body of teenager Gloria Hollinger is found dead on a Los Angeles beach, and Lt. Phil Gaines is i...
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The Sugarland Express
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resol...
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Radio Flyer
A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with the...
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The Shadow Riders
After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and...
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The Getaway
A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong....
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The Hunter
During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, whi...
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Junior Bonner
With his bronco-busting career on its last legs, Junior Bonner heads to his hometown to try his luck...
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Rio Grande
Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of mara...
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The Outlaw
Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, ...
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Breakheart Pass
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission...
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Angels in the Outfield
Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's fav...
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The Last Picture Show
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duan...
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Bite the Bullet
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to r...
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Tex
After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick strug...
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Dillinger
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of th...
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Terror Train
A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and ...
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massi...
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Cheyenne Autumn
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne....
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The Train Robbers
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she ...
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3 Godfathers
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safe...
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Grayeagle
A young Cheyenne warrior, who goes by the name Grayeagle, kidnaps the daughter of a grizzled frontie...
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Major Dundee
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Ar...
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Wagon Master
Two young horse traders guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter rugged terra...
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Cherry 2000
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a...
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Chisum
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County...
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The Rare Breed
When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry ou...
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Mighty Joe Young
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Jo...
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The Swarm
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisibl...
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The Town That Dreaded Sundown
When two young lovers are savagely beaten and tortured on a back country road in Texarkana, local po...
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One-Eyed Jacks
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the ...
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Trespasses
A couple of drifters (Adam Roarke and Lou Diamond Phillips) molest Sharon (Mary Pillot). Franklin (R...
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The Undefeated
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are...
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Picture This
A visceral deconstruction of Academy Award nominated Peter Bogdanovich and the nervous breakdown he ...
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Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control....
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Dark Before Dawn
The good people of Milo, Kansas combine forces to battle against the evil agribusiness Farmco that c...
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My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
H.D. Dalton is a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns...
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Inside 'the Swarm'
A behind-the-scenes/Making of documentary short focused on Irwin Allen's all-star disaster flick The...
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The Bull of the West
Two episodes of the TV series "The Virginian" edited together: "Duel at Shiloh" (2 Jan. 1963) and "N...
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Kid Blue
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dim...
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Champions
The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National...
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War Drums
The friendship between a white man & an Apache chief is tested when they fall in love with the s...
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Fort Defiance
It's just after the Civil War and Ben Shelby arrives looking for Johnny Tallon whom he plans to kill...
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Wild Stallion
A young orphan grows into adulthood, all the while searhing for his beloved white horse that disappe...
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The Chase
In Denver, a fleeing bank robber kills a cop and kidnaps an old man to hold as a hostage. He is chas...
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Ten Who Dared
The John Wesley Powell expedition of 1869 explores the dangerous Colorado River, withstands internal...
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Fort Bowie
Fort Bowie commander Colonel Garrett, suspecting that his wife Alison is having an affair with good-...
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Runaway!
A group of skiers are trapped inside a runaway train hurtling down a mountainside....
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Locusts
A swarm of locusts appears on the horizon near a Midwestern town and the inhabitants must find a way...
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Blood Sport
A searing commentary on the "win at all costs" mentality of American high school sports. David Lee B...
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Back to Back
Modern day western about two very different brothers, who join forces to clear their family name, fr...
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The Red Pony
A young farmboy who can't seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young red ...
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Tomboy and the Champ
A young Texas cowgirl raises a prize-winning calf, whose presence helps her recover from polio....
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The Making of 'Rio Grande'
A short documentary about the making of John Ford's "Rio Grande."...
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Ride a Northbound Horse
Fifteen-year-old Cav Rand purchases a racehorse and trains him into a winner, but a con artist is pl...
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Slim Carter
Hughie Mack, a not so nice western singer, is discovered by Clover Doyle as the next movie cowboy he...
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The Greatest
Muhammad Ali's life story up to the late 1970s, which includes his Olympic boxing triumphs as Cassiu...
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Noon Wine
A dark tragedy about a farmer's futile act of homicide that takes place on a small dairy farm in sou...
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Something Big
Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish thi...
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The Savage Bees
In this horror-drama the festive fun of the annual Mardi Gras celebration is brought to a halt when ...
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Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
After many years in prison, a changed robber comes home to see his sons again, one of them brain-dam...
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The Gallant Legion
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowin...
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Stranger on My Land
A Vietnam veteran has to fight peacefully with words once more when the Air Force wants to expropria...
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Bonanza: The Return
A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to tak...
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Bonanza: Under Attack
After a rogue band of Pinkerton detectives led by ruthless Charley Siringo bushwhacks reformed outla...
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Ruckus
Madoc County is a quiet and peaceful place until vagrant Kyle Hanson arrives. The people of Madoc Co...
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Backstabber
Employees attending an extreme team-building function for the weekend find new meaning in teamwork, ...
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Let's Get Harry
Harry Burck has been kidnapped by South American terrorists, and when the US Government refuses to i...
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The Naughty Nineties
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act...
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Wild Horses
An over-the-hill rodeo champion gets fired from his assembly line job in Texas. He and a buddy then ...
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Rebel in Town
Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. H...
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist...
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Warren Oates: Across the Border
A retrospective of the work of the late actor Warren Oates, with clips from his films and interviews...
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Hollywood on Horses
Hosted by celebrity horse enthusiast, Tab Hunter, visits the stables and homes of the Hollywood movi...
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Oklahoma!
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent...
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Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right
A documentary on the life of famed character actor and rodeo star Ben Johnson, featuring interviews ...
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Tall in the Saddle
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been...
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The Last Ride
A well-loved world-champion cowboy comes to terms with his terminal illness only through the love an...
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