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Elmer Bradley "Brad" Johnson (July 23, 1924 – April 4, 1981), was an American film and television actor, best remembered for his role as the deputy Lofty Craig on the 1950s Western series, ''Annie Oakley''. After his last television appearance, in a 1967 episode of CBS's ''Gunsmoke'', Johnson spent the remainder of his life as a real estate developer in Los Angeles, California.〔Gus Thomson, "Media Life: Brad Johnson is Auburn's best-known actor you've never heard of", ''Auburn Journal'', Auburn, California, July 22, 2010〕 ==Early years== Of Swedish extraction,〔Johnson's death certificate 0190-017444, April 4, 1981〕 Johnson was born on his paternal grandparents' 100-acre peach farm between Marysville in Yuba County and Yuba City in Sutter County in northern California. His father, Carl Elmer Johnson (1901-1924), died shortly before his son's birth and is interred at the nearby Yuba City Cemetery.〔Yuba City Cemetery records, Yuba City, California〕 His mother, the former Eula Ball Bradley, a native of Michigan,〔 reared Brad through her work as a teacher. When Brad was thirteen, he received his eighth-grade certificate from his mother-teacher's one-room school.〔"Brad Johnson: "Lofty Craig" of ''Annie Oakley'', Louisiana State Fair souvenir program, October 1957〕 Johnson was thereafter reared for several years in Auburn and attended Placer High School there. He relocated to Sacramento in his senior year. There he worked as a receiving clerk while taking acting classes. During World War II, Johnson served as a pilot with the United States Army Air Corps. He flew B25s in the South Pacific. At the end of the war, he was stationed in Japan, where he worked at a military radio station as announcer, disc jockey, and writer.〔 On returning from the Army, he enrolled and later graduated from the University of Southern California, where the drama department was headed by William De Mille, brother of screen producer Cecil B. De Mille. He worked at the university radio station.〔 He became an announcer and stage manager with KTLA. In the summer of 1950, Johnson was the resident lead appearing with Anthony Franciosa in summer stock. He performed in several plays at the Playhouse in the Sky at Lake Tahoe, near Reno, Nevada. Johnson and his wife, the former Adele Cook, co-starred in ''Born Yesterday'' and received excellent reviews. One of Johnson's first screen roles came at the age of twenty-seven, when he appeared in 1951 as one of six unnamed students in Ronald W. Reagan's ''Bedtime for Bonzo''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Bedtime for Bonzo'' )〕 In 1952, he had an uncredited role as a reporter in Cecil B. DeMille's ''The Greatest Show on Earth'' with Charlton Heston. He drove to Florida to procure this role, armed with a rarely written letter of recommendation from Professor De Mille.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brad Johnson (television actor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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