Russell Johnson

After Gilligan's Island he appeared in several other movies and televsion shows, perhaps most notably the miniseries Vanished, based on a novel by Fletcher Knebel (1971), uncredited in the Robert Redford spy thriller, Three Days of the Condor (1975), and on the NBC soap opera Santa Barbara. He is currently engaged to Tracy Hutson. Unlike fellow cast member Tina Louise, who was equally typecast as retro-glamourous movie queen Ginger Grant, he has willingly participated in all reunion movies, cartoons, and other events related to the program. He has since returned as a regular cast member. He is still instantly recognizable to the show's legions of fans, but his ability to be cast in other sorts of roles has been quite limited. As of April 2003 it was reportedly in remission, and he began appearing on the program again, starting with the 150th episode. Johnson was typecast in this sort of role, and seems to have regarded his stint as The Professor as a mixed blessing. He was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease in May 2002, and went on hiatus from 7th Heaven while he underwent treatment.

The Professor was a genius who could build and devise ways of doing almost anything, except something which would get himself and the other castaways off of the island. When he turned 19, Watson moved back to Los Angeles, where he worked parking cars at the House of Blues nightclub, and later found a minor role on the Aaron Spelling series Malibu Shores. Spelling's daughter Tori introduced him to his first wife, Laura. However, he is by far best known to the public as "The Professor" (a/k/a "Roy Hinckley") on the CBS television sitcom Gilligan's Island, which was in first-run from 1964 to 1967 but has been shown in reruns essentially continuously since that time. Afterwards, he moved back to Texas, and graduated from high school in Richardson in 1992. He also appeared in a Ma and Pa Kettle vehicle. When he was fifteen, he moved to Burbank, California, soon finding a job on the soap opera Days of Our Lives. Johnson's Hollywood career began in 1952, and his early roles were primarily in westerns and science fiction. Watson moved to Dallas, Texas at the age of eight, and found some work as a model.

He became a close friend of Audie Murphy and later appeared with him in one of his films. Michael Barrett "Barry" Watson (born April 23, 1974 in Traverse City, Michigan) is an American television actor, best known for his role in the series 7th Heaven. He had a very distinguished record and was higly decorated for his service. Mister Johnson joined the Army Air Corps in World War II and served as a gunner on bombers. Johnson (born November 10, 1924) is an American television and film actor.

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