Nickname:	Son
Known for:	The Last Picture Show, The Wild Bunch, Shane
Birthday:	13 June 1918, Foraker, Shidler, Oklahoma, USA
Height:	6' 2" (1.88 m)

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. Died of a heart attack while visiting his mother in the retirement community where, not only she, but he himself lived. A prize belt buckle that he won for calf roping was stolen from his car when he visited Houston in 1976; on a repeat visit a decade later, he was an on-air guest on radio station KIKK when a caller returned the buckle to him. Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1982. Johnson, his father, and nephew have Belt-Buckle awards for team roping. He initially turned down the role of Sam the Lion in The Last Picture Show (1971) when it was first offered to him by Peter Bogdanovich because he thought the script was "dirty," and he did not approve of swearing and nudity in motion pictures. Bogdanovich appealed to John Ford, who got Johnson to change his mind as a favor to him. With the permission of Bogdanovich, Johnson rewrote his part with the offensive words removed. Johnson went on to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing the role. Was in three movies in a row where his first name was Travis: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Sergant Travis Tyree; Wagon Master (1950), Travis Blue; Rio Grande (1950), Trooper Travis Tyree.

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