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ARTE (AR-dee)
Arte
Johnson: American actor best known for role in “Laugh-In”
TV show
Common
clues:
Johnson
of "Laugh-In"; First name from "Laugh-In";
Comic Johnson
Crossword
puzzle frequency:
4 times a year
Frequency
in English language:
35106 / 86800
News:
Laughs
from the past are still a blast
Video:
Freeze-In
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Johnson (born January 20, 1929), full name Arthur Stanton Eric
Johnson, is a comic actor.
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Johnson and the Laugh-In cast
He
was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan and attended the University
of Illinois, graduating in 1949 after working on the campus radio
station and the U of I Theater Guild with his brother, Cos.
He
initially sought employment in Chicago working for advertising
agencies, but left for New York to work for Viking Press. His
first "show business" job came when he impulsively
stepped into an audition line and was cast in a revival of
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
He
is best known for his work on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, an
American television show (1968-1973), in which he played various
characters including a smoking Nazi soldier with the catch phrase
"Verrry interesting..." Johnson indicated later that
the phrase came from Desperate Journey, a 1942 World War II film
with Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan playing Royal Air Force pilots
shot down in Nazi Germany; they managed to cross much of the
country without speaking German or knowing the territory, but
when captured, their Nazi interrogator doubts their story with
the phrase.
In
the 1990s Johnson voiced "Newt", a hunting dog on the
cartoon Animaniacs, who futilely became enamoured of his target,
a sexy female mink named Minerva.
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has performed some memorable audiobook readings, including Gary
Shteyngart's "Absurdistan" (2006), and more than eighty
other books.
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