Ben Johnson (actor)

He was the World Champion Steer Roper in 1953. He continues to work on screen, most recently in Wondrous Oblivion (2003). He went on to become a favourite of Sam Peckinpah before winning an Academy Award for his performance as Sam The Lion in The Last Picture Show. Among the films he has starred in have been Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty, Clockers, Feeling Minnesota, and as the baseball player Satchel Paige in Black and White (1996). Born in Foraker, Shidler, Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was a ranch hand and rodeo star before becoming involved in the movies with John Ford in such classics as She Wore A Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande. It was director Spike Lee who provided the boost Lindo's career needed, even though he had turned down a role in Do the Right Thing to act alongside Rutger Hauer and Joan Chen in the cult sci-fi movie Salute of the Jugger (1990), and cast him as Woody Carmichael in the comedy Crooklyn (1994). Ben Johnson (June 13, 1918 - April 8, 1996) was an American movie actor. In 1982, he debuted on Broadway in Master Harold and the Boys directed by the play's author Athol Fugard and by 1988, Lindo earned a Tony nomination for his portayal of Harald Loomis in Joe Turner's Come and Gone.

His movie debut came in 1976 with the British comedy Find the Lady (1976) followed by two other roles in films such as that of an Army sergeant in More American Graffitti (1979) when he quit acting for 10 years to concentrate on theatre production. where Lindo would graduate from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. As a teenager he and his mother moved to Toronto, Canada and by the 1970s they had moved to the U.S. The son of Jamaican immigrant parents, Lindo was born and raised in Lewisham, England, where at age 5 on the strength of the nativity plays he appeared in became a stage actor.

Delroy Lindo (born November 18, 1952, Eltham, London, England, UK) is a British born, American actor. Wondrous Oblivion (2003). The Core (2003). Cider House Rules (1999).

A Life Less Ordinary (1997). Black and White (1996). Get Shorty (1996). Malcolm X (1992).

Salute of the Jugger (1990). More American Graffitti (1979). Find the Lady (1976).