Richard Johnson (born 30 July 1927) is an English actor, writer and producer, who starred in several British films of the 1960s and has also had a distinguished stage career. He most recently appeared in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Johnson was born in Upminster, England, the son of Frances Louisa Olive (née Tweed) and Keith Holcombe Johnson. Johnson's most famous wife (his second) was American actress Kim Novak, with whom he appeared in the 1...
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Richard Johnson (born 30 July 1927) is an English actor, writer and producer, who starred in several British films of the 1960s and has also had a distinguished stage career. He most recently appeared in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Johnson was born in Upminster, England, the son of Frances Louisa Olive (née Tweed) and Keith Holcombe Johnson. Johnson's most famous wife (his second) was American actress Kim Novak, with whom he appeared in the 1965 film, The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders; they had no children. By his first marriage, to Sheila Sweet, he has two children, games designer Jervis Johnson (b. 1969) and actress Sorel Johnson. His also has a daughter, Jennifer, by his third wife, Mary Louise Norlund, and a fourth child, Nicholas, by Francoise Pascal. Johnson is currently married to Lynne Gurney; the couple have been together since 1989, and married on the beach in Goa 2004. Richard is the founder of It's a Green Green World.
Johnson went to Felsted School, then trained...
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