Mark Johnson (born 27 December 1945 in Maryland) is a film producer who lives and works in the United States.
Mark Johnson won the Best Picture Academy Award for producing Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. The film, (winner of four Oscars) also captured a Golden Globe as Best Picture.
Johnson first became involved in show business in 1964, as an actor playing the sheriff's deputy in the Spanish "spaghetti western" Brandy, directed...
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Mark Johnson (born 27 December 1945 in Maryland) is a film producer who lives and works in the United States.
Mark Johnson won the Best Picture Academy Award for producing Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. The film, (winner of four Oscars) also captured a Golden Globe as Best Picture.
Johnson first became involved in show business in 1964, as an actor playing the sheriff's deputy in the Spanish "spaghetti western" Brandy, directed by Jose Luis Borau. He spent ten years of his youth in Spain, where he worked as a movie extra in films such as Franklin Schaffner's Nicholas and Alexandra and David Lean's Dr. Zhivago. His early experiences led to small acting roles in the European western Ride and Kill and the 1964 drama The Thin Red Line. After earning an undergraduate degree in Drama from the University of Virginia and an MA in Film Scholarship from the University of Iowa, Johnson moved to New York. There he entered the Director's Guild training program. One of his first...
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