People named Noble Johnson

Noble Mainlee Johnson of Magnolia, Montgomery County, TX was born on March 17, 1920, and died at age 85 years old on June 22, 2005. Noble Johnson was buried at Houston National Cemetery Section N3 Site 588 10410 Veterans Memorial Drive, in Houston.

Noble L Johnson of Dallas, Dallas County, Texas was born on July 16, 1912, and died at age 67 years old in July 1979.

Noble B Johnson of Center, Shelby County, Texas was born on February 11, 1926, and died at age 82 years old on May 17, 2008.

Noble H Johnson of Saint Albans, Queens County, NY Africa was born on September 8, 1927, and died at age 81 years old on April 27, 2009. Noble Johnson was buried at Calverton National Cemetery Section 36 Site 3430 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton.

Noble J Johnson of Forest Park, Clayton County, GA was born on October 24, 1929, and died at age 71 years old on February 25, 2001.

Noble E Johnson of Indianapolis, Marion County, IN was born on June 22, 1923, and died at age 80 years old on November 30, 2003. Noble Johnson was buried at Indiana Veterans Memorial Cemetery Section 5 Row C Site 42 1415 North Gate Road, in Madison.

Noble Johnson Born April 18, 1881 in Marshall, Missouri, USA Died January 9, 1978 in Yucaipa, California, USA (undisclosed) Birth Name Noble Mark Johnson Height 6' 2" (1.88 m) African-American movie actor and producer Noble Johnson was born on April 18, 1881, in Marshall, Missouri. His family moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, when Noble was very young, and it was there that he met Lon Chaney at school. They became friends as children, and later got re-acquainted when both were making movies in Hollywood and became friends all over again (surprisingly, they never made any movies together). Johnson, as an adult, was built like a bull. Standing 6'2" at 215 pounds, his impressive physique and handsome features made him in demand as a character actor and bit player. In the silent era he essayed a wide variety of characters of different races in a plethora of films, primarily serials, westerns and adventure movies. While Johnson was cast as blacks in many films, he also played Native American and Latino parts and "exotic" characters such as Arabians or even a devil in hell in Dante's Inferno (1924) (the old black and white orthochromatic film stock of the early days was less discriminating about a person's color, as were B+W stocks in general, permitting some African-American actors a break, as their "color" was washed out or less obvious when photographed in B+W. As late as the early 1960s, there were very few African-American members of the Screen Actors Guild, since there was a lack of opportunity for them as black performers were confined mostly to race films until the 1960s). In all his roles, Johnson lived up to his Christian name: his was a noble and dignified presence that exhibited great power and substance. Johnson also was an entrepreneur. In 1916 he founded his own studio to produce what would be called "race films", movies made for the African-American audience, which was ignored by the "mainstream" film industry. The Lincoln Motion Picture Co., which was in existence until 1921, was an all-black company, the first to produce movies portraying African-Americans as real people instead of as racist caricatures (Johnson was followed into the race film business by Oscar Micheaux and others). Johnson, who served as president of the company and was its primary asset as a star actor, helped support the studio by acting in other companies' productions such as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916), and using the money he made in those films to invest in Lincoln. Lincoln's first picture was The Realization of a Negro's Ambition (1916). For four years Johnson managed to keep Lincoln a going concern, primarily due to his extraordinary commitment to African-American filmmaking. However, he reluctantly resigned as president in 1920, as he no longer could continue his double business life, maintaining a demanding career in Hollywood films while trying to run a studio. In the 1920s Johnson was a very busy character actor, appearing in such top-notch films as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) with Rudolph Valentino, Cecil B. DeMille's original The Ten Commandments (1923) and The Thief of Bagdad (1924). He made the transition to sound, appearing in the 1930 version of Moby Dick (1930) as Queequeg to John Barrymore's Captain Ahab. He was also the tribal leader on Skull Island in the classic King Kong (1933) (and its sequel, Son of Kong (1933)) and appeared in Frank Capra's classic Lost Horizon (1937) as one of the porters. One of his last films was John Ford's classic She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), in which he played Native American Chief Red Shirt. He retired from the movie industry in 1950. Johnson died on January 9, 1978, in Yucaipa (San Bernardino), California, at age 96. He is buried in the Garden of Peace at Eternal Valley Memorial Park in Newhall, California. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jon C. Hopwood Spouse (3) Ruth Thornton (19 October 1912 - ?) Gladys Blackwell (? - ?) May (? - ?) Trivia (4) Co-founder with his brother George Johnson of the Lincoln Motion Picture Co., Johnson was one of the first successful African-American film producers. Interred at Eternal Valley Memorial Park, Newhall, CA, in the Garden of Peace, A-270. He was born in Marshall, MO, but when very young his family moved to Colorado Springs, CO, birthplace of Lon Chaney. They attended the same school, became friends and knew each other many years later when both were making movies in Hollywood. Taught at College of the Sequoias after retiring from acting.

Noble Nora Johnson Sr of Memphis, Shelby County, TN was born on August 4, 1924, and died at age 85 years old on June 9, 2010. Noble Johnson was buried at West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery Section L Site 4911 4000 Forest Hill-irene Rd, in Memphis.

Noble G Johnson was born on June 7, 1949, and died at age 49 years old on February 14, 1999. Noble Johnson was buried at Danville National Cemetery, Il Section 19 Site 387 1900 East Main Street - Va Medical Center, in Danville, Il. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Noble G Johnson.

Noble J Johnson of Jackson, Hinds County, MS was born on February 9, 1963, and died at age 46 years old on October 22, 2009.

Noble Vernon Johnson of Sedona, Coconino County, Arizona was born on August 2, 1913, and died at age 95 years old on September 19, 2008.

Noble S Johnson was born on June 12, 1903, and died at age 87 years old on June 5, 1991. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Noble S Johnson.

Noble Johnson of Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge County, LA was born on September 3, 1904, and died at age 87 years old on May 23, 1992.

Noble Johnson of Sacramento, Sacramento County, California was born on March 15, 1898, and died at age 79 years old in May 1977.

Noble D Johnson of Idaho was born on October 13, 1913, and died at age 95 years old on June 7, 2009.

Noble Johnson was born on December 26, 1926, and died at age 58 years old in July 1985. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Noble Johnson.

Noble Johnson of Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon was born on March 19, 1887, and died at age 89 years old in March 1976.

Noble O Johnson of Hastings, Adams County, NE was born on November 28, 1919, and died at age 79 years old on March 9, 1999.

Noble Johnson was born on February 27, 1897, and died at age 81 years old in August 1978. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Noble Johnson.

Noble Johnson of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska was born on June 12, 1945, and died at age 38 years old in May 1984.

Noble Johnson of Valley City, Barnes County, North Dakota was born on December 10, 1905, and died at age 75 years old in April 1981.

Noble Johnson of Saint Louis, Saint Louis City County, Missouri was born on April 6, 1910, and died at age 75 years old in February 1986.

Noble Johnson of Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri was born on April 16, 1909, and died at age 71 years old in April 1980.

Noble Johnson of Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa was born on September 22, 1909, and died at age 55 years old in August 1965.

Noble Johnson of San Mateo, San Mateo County, California was born on July 21, 1914, and died at age 72 years old in May 1987.

Noble L Johnson of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN was born on March 19, 1917, and died at age 77 years old on July 4, 1994.

Noble Johnson of Maple Valley, King County, Washington was born on March 19, 1911, and died at age 64 years old in August 1975.

Noble Wayne Johnson of Eddy, McLennan County, Texas was born on February 26, 1925, and died at age 83 years old on December 22, 2008.

Noble Johnson of Houston, Harris County, Texas was born on January 13, 1912, and died at age 74 years old in June 1986.