George Clayton Johnson Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
George Clayton Johnson (born July 10, 1929 in Cheyenne, Wyoming) is an American science fiction writer most famous for co-writing the novel Logan's Run with William F. Nolan (basis for the 1976 film). He is also known for his work in television, writing screenplays for such noted series as The Twilight Zone, such as "Nothing in the Dark", "Kick the Can", "A Game of Pool" and "A Penny for Your Thoughts", and Star Trek, the first aired episode of the series, "The Man Trap". He also wrote the story on which the 1960 and 2001 films Ocean's Eleven were based. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies by editors such as Dennis Etchison, Jason V Brock, and Christopher Conlon. He was the proprietor of Cafe Frankenstein, and co-created the comic book series Deepest Dimension Terror Anthology with cartoonist Jay Allen Sanford for Revolutionary Comics, which adapted his stories from The Twilight Zone (including unproduced teleplays) and stories by his friends and contemporaries such as Larry Niven, Robert Bloch, and Dennis Etchison. The entire library of his work, including Logan's Run and Jessica's Run: The New Sequel to Logan's Run is represented on his behalf by WBMT Literary, Film and Television.
December 25, 2015, North Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States
Place Of Birth
Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
Profession
Writer, Actor
Nationality
American
Nominations
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Nebula Award for Best Script
Movies
Ocean's Thirteen, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Eleven, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Logan's Run, Icarus Montgolfier Wright, The Intruder, Ocean's 11, The Jungle of Jules Levine
TV Shows
Logan's Run
Star Sign
Leo
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Quote
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I'm a free man. I don't wear anybody's collar. I'm not obliged to smile if I don't want to. That gives me a lot of perverse pride -- I really am a person who could stop doing what I'm doing right now, go off to Ceylon tomorrow and live among the fishermen. I make a living without having a job; I don't cater to anybody. I believe that's the hardest thing to achieve in this world -- any kind of autonomy, any kind of independence, any kind of freedom. So, I'm very, very proud of the fact that I'm an independent.
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Fact
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He served in the Army, then studied drafting in college. He eventually moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a draftsman for the Lockheed aviation company while moonlighting as a writer. Soon after quitting his day job to pursue writing full-time, he met a Twilight Zone writer, Charles Beaumont, who introduced him to the show's creator, Rod Serling.
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His father was in the army and later worked as a day labourer and occasional bootlegger. When George was young, his parents divorced. He remained with his alcoholic mother, but, at the age of fourteen, the courts removed him to a state orphanage in Casper, Wyoming.
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Johnson was a strong advocate for the legalization of marijuana. He reputedly smoked weed all day, every day, well into his 80's.
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Co-creator of the comic book series Deepest Dimension Terror Anthology, with cartoonist and author Jay Allen Sanford (Revolutionary Comics).
$400,000
