{"id":35371,"date":"2022-06-03T18:41:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T18:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/melrose-place-and-always-star-brad-johnson-dead-at-62\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T18:41:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T18:41:05","slug":"melrose-place-and-always-star-brad-johnson-dead-at-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/melrose-place-and-always-star-brad-johnson-dead-at-62\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Melrose Place&#8217; and &#8216;Always&#8217; star Brad Johnson dead at 62"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Brad Johnson, the actor who appeared on \u201cMelrose Place\u201d and in Steven Spielberg&#8217;s film \u201cAlways,\u201d has passed away.  He was 62.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson died from COVID-19 complications on Feb. 18 in Fort Worth, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>His rep, Linda McAlister, confirmed the news of his death to the Hollywood Reporter. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although he was taken too early, he lived life to the fullest and taught his children to do the same,&#8221; his family said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrad greatly enjoyed improving and enhancing land, in a way that maintained and respected its natural beauty,\u201d the statement continued.  \u201cHe always felt most at home outdoors, and his passion for the land made that evident.  As much as he loved cowboying, hunting and land, Brad loved nothing more than his family of him. &#8221; <\/p>\n<p>His family members also remembered him as \u201ca true renaissance man\u201d in the obituary dedicated to the soap opera star.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was not only interested in all life had to offer, but was gifted in it as well,&#8221; they remembered.  &#8220;Although he was taken too early, he lived life to the fullest.  He was larger than life.  Brad was loved by many and loved people back, a genuine friend, trusted colleague, and a dedicated husband and father, he will never be forgotten, and his legacy of he will go on. &#8220;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>&#8220;He was not only interested in all life had to offer, but was gifted in it as well,&#8221; family members remembered. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">\u00a9 United Artists \/ courtesy Everet<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Johnson is survived by his wife of 35 years, Laurie, his eldest son, Shane, his daughters Bellamy, Rachel, Eliana, Eden, Rebekah, Annabeth, and his youngest son, William.<\/p>\n<p>He also earned notoriety as a Calvin Klein model before coming to Hollywood and starred in several cigarette ads as a Marlboro Man.<\/p>\n<p>In 1989, he caught the attention of director Spielberg and starred in his romantic fantasy drama \u201cAlways\u201d alongside Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfuss.<\/p>\n<p>On Fox&#8217;s hit &#8217;90s drama \u201cMelrose Place,\u201d Johnson scored an iconic recurring role as Dr. Dominick O&#8217;Malley.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was born in October 1959 in Tucson, Arizona, to a horse-trainer father and had a passion for the great outdoors.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/melrose-star-brad-johnson-dead-comp-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Brad Johnson\" class=\"wp-image-22521374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/melrose-star-brad-johnson-dead-comp-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/melrose-star-brad-johnson-dead-comp-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/melrose-star-brad-johnson-dead-comp-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Brad Johnson died Feb. 18, 2022, of complications from COVID-19 in Fort Worth, Texas.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">\u00a9 Aaron Spelling Prods \/ Courtesy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Johnson later became involved in a professional rodeo circuit in 1984 and was scouted by a casting director, in search of cowboys for a new beer commercial, while he wrestled steers in Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>Other credits that Johnson had to his name include &#8220;Soldier of Fortune, Inc.,&#8221; &#8220;Riverworld,&#8221; &#8220;CSI,&#8221; &#8220;Dallas,&#8221; &#8220;The Birds II: Land&#8217;s End&#8221; and &#8220;Rough Riders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson also constructed a hunting lodge in New Mexico and had a strong interest in restoring Winchester Model 1886 rifles.  He lived in picturesque towns in North Texas and in the mountains of Colorado during the course of his career.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Johnson, the actor who appeared on \u201cMelrose Place\u201d and in Steven Spielberg&#8217;s film \u201cAlways,\u201d has passed away. He was 62. Johnson died from COVID-19 complications on Feb. 18 in Fort Worth, Texas. His rep, Linda McAlister, confirmed the news of his death to the Hollywood Reporter. &#8220;Although he was taken too early, he lived &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/melrose-place-and-always-star-brad-johnson-dead-at-62\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Melrose Place&#8217; and &#8216;Always&#8217; star Brad Johnson dead at 62<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10],"tags":[556,451,16856,14,4878],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/melrose-star-brad-johnson-dead-comp-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}