{"id":38321,"date":"2022-06-06T02:23:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T02:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/melrose-place-actor-marlboro-man-62-had-covid\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T02:23:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T02:23:26","slug":"melrose-place-actor-marlboro-man-62-had-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/melrose-place-actor-marlboro-man-62-had-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Melrose Place&#8217; actor, Marlboro Man, 62, had COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Brad Johnson, who jumped from portraying the Marlboro Man in cigarette spots to film and TV roles including Steven Spielberg&#8217;s \u201cAlways\u201d and \u201cMelrose Place,\u201d has died.  He was 62.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Johnson died Feb. 18 in Fort Worth, Texas, of complications from COVID-19, his longtime representative Lou Pitt confirmed to USA TODAY.  His death of him became more widely known in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Johnson played opposite Holly Hunter in 1989&#8217;s \u201cAlways,\u201d a remake of a 1943 film (\u201cA Guy Named Joe\u201d) about firefighting pilots.  He played a pilot again in the 2000 religious apocalyptic thriller \u201cLeft Behind,\u201d starring Kirk Cameron, and was in its two sequels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">He worked regularly on TV, including in the recurring role of Dr. Dominick O&#8217;Malley in \u201cMelrose Place\u201d;  &#8220;Rough Riders,&#8221; &#8220;Soldier of Fortune, Inc.&#8221;  and &#8220;CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img gnt_em_img__inset\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">Bo Hopkins obit:<\/strong>&#8216;American Graffiti&#8217; and &#8216;Wild Bunch&#8217; actor dies at 84<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Johnson was born in October 1959 to parents Grove, a horse trainer, and Virginia, in Tucson, Arizona.  After competing in rodeos as a youth, he began his professional rodeo career in 1984 and was discovered by a movie scout, according to a family biography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">His work as an actor and as a Marlboro Man &#8211; one of a succession used by the brand &#8211; brought Johnson and his wife, Laurie, to California.  They eventually moved their family to a ranch in New Mexico and the Colorado mountains before settling in north Texas.  He sold ranch real estate there.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">Ronnie Hawkins obit:<\/strong>Patron of Canadian rock and mentor to The Band, dies at 87<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cAs much as he loved cowboying and the outdoors, Brad loved nothing more than his family.  He put them before himself in every way and they know that they could not have been blessed with a better husband and father, \u201dhis family di lui said in a statement provided by his agent di lui, Linda McAlister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cAlthough he was taken too early, he lived life to the fullest,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Johnson&#8217;s survivors include his wife of 35 years as well as their children Shane, Bellamy, Rachel, Eliana, Eden, Rebekah, Annabeth and William, and Johnson&#8217;s stepmother, Teresa Johnson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Contributing: USA TODAY<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">Original Marlboro Man dies:<\/strong>Robert Norris, who never actually smoked, died at age 90<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/03\/USAT\/42b01e4b-e47e-4fe5-9d63-e74577182a50-GettyImages-2071326.jpg?resize=660%2C372&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/03\/USAT\/42b01e4b-e47e-4fe5-9d63-e74577182a50-GettyImages-2071326.jpg?crop=2149,1209,x0,y600&amp;width=1320&amp;height=744&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Johnson, who jumped from portraying the Marlboro Man in cigarette spots to film and TV roles including Steven Spielberg&#8217;s \u201cAlways\u201d and \u201cMelrose Place,\u201d has died. He was 62. Johnson died Feb. 18 in Fort Worth, Texas, of complications from COVID-19, his longtime representative Lou Pitt confirmed to USA TODAY. His death of him became &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/melrose-place-actor-marlboro-man-62-had-covid\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Melrose Place&#8217; actor, Marlboro Man, 62, had COVID<\/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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/03\/USAT\/42b01e4b-e47e-4fe5-9d63-e74577182a50-GettyImages-2071326.jpg?width=300&height=417&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38321"}],"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=38321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}