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Brad William Johnson (October 24, 1959 – February 18, 2022) [2] was an American actor and former Marlboro Man, [3] best known for his roles in films and television series during the late 1980s and 1990s. He gained prominence for his performances in Westerns and action-adventure films.
When the new Marlboro Country theme opened in late 1963, the actors utilized as Marlboro Man were replaced, for the most part, with real working cowboys, and the campaign began using Elmer Bernstein's 1960 theme music from The Magnificent Seven. In 1963, at the 6666 Ranch in Guthrie, Texas, they discovered Carl 'Big-un' Bradley.
As an actor, he played Captain Richard "Dick" Hammer in the television series Emergency! but left the show during the 1972 first season after ten episodes. He returned to firefighting up till his retirement in 1983, during which he became one of many actors who portrayed the Marlboro Man in print advertisements in the 1970s. [1]
William Leo Thourlby (January 22, 1924 – April 15, 2013) was an American actor, model and writer. He was known for his rugged, cowboy look when he appeared as the face of the Marlboro Man campaign in the 1950s. [1] This ad campaign was one of the 20th century's most famous, redefining the Marlboro brand image from a cigarette for women to one ...
Brad Johnson, best known for his role in Steven Spielberg's romantic drama Always, has died. He was 62.Johnson died on Feb. 18, in Forth Worth, Texas, due to complications from COVID-19, ET has ...
In the mid-1950s he appeared in magazine and TV ads as the first widely publicized "Cowboy" Marlboro Man. [2] In 1959, he was cast as Sergeant Major Carmody, with Doug McClure as Corporal Jenkins, in the episode "The Face of Courage" of the NBC western series, Riverboat, starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds.
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Brad Johnson (actor, born 1924) (1924–1981), American actor, deputy Lofty Craig on Annie Oakley Brad Johnson (actor, born 1959) (1959–2022), American actor, former Marlboro Man Brad Johnson (Montana politician) (born 1951), American politician