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Brad Johnson, a former Marlboro Man and actor in Steven Spielberg’sAlways, has died. He was 62.
The actor died February 18 in Fort Worth, Texas,Entertainment Weeklyconfirmed.
According to anobituary, Johnson was a “true renaissance man,” who was “not only interested in all life had to offer, but was gifted in it as well.”
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Johnson’s first big acting role came in Spielberg’s 1989 dramaAlways, where he acted alongside Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfuss.
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Additional films of his includeFlight of the Intruder, Philadelphia Experiment II, The Birds II: Land’s End, Rough Ridersand several others. The actor also appeared on several episodes ofCSI: Crime Scene Investigation,Soldier of Fortune, Inc.,Melrose PlaceandCourthouse.
His career would bring his family to California, the obituary states, though a few years later they bought and moved to a ranch in rural New Mexico.
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He and his family would eventually return back to North Texas after also spending some time in the mountains of Colorado.
“As 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,” the obituary read.
source: people.com