He played red-shirt (expendable) Dr. Carlson who gets killed so that Meacham and Ruth can get away from the aliens in This Island Earth. He was a war hero, and a buddy of Audie Murphy - hence the Westerns. He's still alive (last surviving Gilligan cast member) somewhere in the Pacific Northwest.
"An episode of Newhart featured the Beavers (a men's organization) watching a Gilligan's Island episode on television. When they are suddenly evicted from the room, one of them, portrayed by Johnson, protests, "I want to see how it ends!"-wiki
Westerns were really popular back then, so nearly everybody ended up in them at least once. I did see him in something, but don't remember what. Did he ever guest star on Bonanza?
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