Don Johnson

Film and television actor "Don Johnson" first studied his trade at the University of Kansas and the American Conservatory Theatre. A professional actor by his late teens, Johnson's earliest stage and screen assignments frequently found him cast as a fallen innocent.

Johnson first gained national press coverage as the 20-year-old star of the counterculture comedy "The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart" (1970). His next significant credit was the 1975 cult favorite "A Boy and His Dog", based on a trenchant "Harlan Ellison" yarn. Personal and professional entanglements kept him alternately on and offscreen until 1984, when he staged a comeback as Sonny Crockett, a rough-shod yet impossibly hip, sailboat-dwelling Miami-area vice squad detective assigned to work opposite Detective Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas), in Michael Mann's seminal small-screen cop drama "Miami Vice" (1984-89). To... Full Biography