Don Johnson - 15355

American film and television actor.

A professional actor by his late teens, Johnson's earliest stage and screen assignments often found him cast as a fallen innocent. He gained national press coverage as the 20-year-old star of the counterculture comedy The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970). His next significant credit was the 1975 cult favourite A Boy and His Dog, based on a Harlan Ellison story.

Personal and professional entanglements kept him off screen as much as on until 1984, when he staged a comeback as Sonny Crockett in the trend-setting television cop series Miami Vice (1984-89). During this second flush of fame, Johnson distinguished himself as a dependable television-movie leading man (notably as Ben Quick in the 1985 remake of The Long Hot Summer) and a champion powerboat racer. He also played a series of interesting leading roles in less than interesting films. During the 1995-96 season, Johnson enjoyed another career renaissance as star of the television weekly Nash Bridges and as Kevin Costner's adversary in golf comedy Tin Cup (1996).

Johnson has always proved to be good copy for the gossip columns and tabloids, thanks to his many marriages and relationships.

This is a very fine colour photograph (7" x 10"), boldly signed in gold ink. In excellent condition.