Russell Johnson has appeared in many and many a TV show but is forever identified with his "Gilligan's Island" role: "The Professor," whose actual cast name was Roy Hinckley. The show aired from 1964 to 1967, but it lives on in endless re-runs.
Johnson, the actor's real name, not a pseudonym, served in the Army Air Forces during World War II and was a combat bombadier. He studied acting after the war and had small parts in a few movies.
In 1953, he began to get TV roles in such varied shows as "Superman," "The Lone Ranger," The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin," Wagon Train," The Twilight Zone," "Death Valley Days," "Hawaiian Eye," Ben Casey," "Rawhide," "77 Sunset Strip,"The Big Valley," "That Girl," "Marcus Welby, M.D.," "Gunsmoke," "Mannix," "Cannon," "Wonder Woman," Lou Grant," "The Jeffersons," "MacGyver," "Newhart," "Dynasty," and "Roseanne."
His celebrity, however, is derived almost exclusively from "Gilligan's Island."
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