He made his name in films including 30 Seconds over Tokyo, A Guy Named Joe and The Caine Mutiny, and his contract was with MGM.
Van Johnson acted in films with Esther Williams, June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor and other leading ladies and he had a role in the 1954 musical Brigadoon.
Later on in his career in 1985, he played as an actor in Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo.
Johnson was born in Newport, Rhode Island, and was usually cast as the typical all-American boy.
Johnson was nicknamed "the non-singing Sinatra" and in 1947 he got married to Eve Wynn, although the couple were to divorce 13 years afterwards.
