Johnson, Van
From Astro-Databank
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| Birthname | Johnson, Charles Van | ||
| born on | 25 August 1916 at 05:10 (= 05:10 AM ) | ||
| Place | Newport RI, USA, 41n29, 71w18 | ||
| Timezone | EST h5w (is standard time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   01°51'   25°27 Asc. 02°11'
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Biography
American actor, a boyish looking red head who played in some 125 films in the '40s and '50s. At 18, he arrived in New York, a star-struck kid with $5 in his pocket and a straw suitcase containing all his worldly possessions. He danced in the chorus line in a couple of theater shows and the spotlight always found his 6'3 foot frame. At 25, he went to Hollywood and visited his former dancing pal, Lucille Ball. A casting director screen-tested Johnson, and he was immediately signed to an MGM film contract.
In 1947 he married Eve Wynn; one child. They had an ugly divorce 13 years later that wiped him out financially and emotionally. In the '50s, he spent more time on the stage than in film with a hiatus in 1962 and again in 1964 for malignant melanomas. As his career faded, he found his best life period in playing dinner theater. In 1988 he said he had been celibate for ten years and was living quietly and happily, painting and taking care of a few stray cats.
An unabashedly happy man, he began seriously working as an amateur painter in the '40s and by the '80s, was splashing his sunny disposition across canvas, exhibiting 63 paintings in a Dallas art show in December 1987. His works were ranging in price from $1-to-10 thousand, "honest, bright, full of giving, open, bold acrylics."
The actor died at age 92 on December 12, 2008 in Nyack, NY.
Events
- Relationship : Marriage 1947 (Eve Wynn)
- Relationship : Divorce dates 1960 (Difficult divorce from Eve)
- Health : Medical diagnosis 1962 (Melanoma cancer)
- Health : Medical diagnosis 1964 (Another melanoma cancer)
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released December 1987 (Art exhibit in Dallas)
- Relationship : Least Sex 1978 (Decade celibate)
- Death, Cause unspecified 12 December 2008 (Age 92, in Nyack, NY)
Source Notes
Anthony Ariel article in an astrology magazine, clipping in hand, apparently from an old movie magazine that refers to Johnson's birth, "The infant uttered his first little cry when the Sun was about 1 degree and 40 minutes into Virgo and Virgo is also his Ascendant. Gemini is intercepted in the 10th, Neptune in the 12th and Jupiter almost at his MC. At the approximate hour of his birth, Virgo is on the cusps of both the 1st and 2nd houses."
Categories
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
- Vocation : Entertainment : Live Stage (Dinner theater)
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (13 year marriage)
- Family : Relationship : Divorce bitter (One)
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (One)
- Passions : Sexuality : Celibacy/ Minimal (From 1978)
- Lifestyle : Financial : Extreme ups and downs
- Vocation : Art : Fine art artist
- Traits : Body : Hair (Red)
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 92)
