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Noble Johnson (Noble Mark Johnson) was born on 18 April, 1881 in Marshall, Missouri, USA, is an actor,writer,producer. Discover Noble Johnson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 97 years old?
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Noble Mark Johnson |
Occupation |
actor,writer,producer |
Age |
97 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Aries |
Born |
18 April, 1881 |
Birthday |
18 April |
Birthplace |
Marshall, Missouri, USA |
Date of death |
9 January, 1978 |
Died Place |
Yucaipa, California, USA |
Nationality |
United States
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He is a member of famous Actor with the age 97 years old group.
Noble Johnson Height, Weight & Measurements
At 97 years old, Noble Johnson height is 6' 2" (1.88 m) .
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6' 2" (1.88 m) |
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Who Is Noble Johnson's Wife?
His wife is Ruth Thornton (19 October 1912 - ?), Gladys Blackwell (? - ?), May (? - ?)
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Wife |
Ruth Thornton (19 October 1912 - ?), Gladys Blackwell (? - ?), May (? - ?) |
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Noble Johnson Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Noble Johnson worth at the age of 97 years old? Noble Johnson’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United States. We have estimated Noble Johnson's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
House |
Not Available |
Cars |
Not Available |
Source of Income |
Actor |
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Timeline
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.
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.
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.
, 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).
DeMille's original The Ten Commandments (1923) and The Thief of Bagdad (1924).
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.
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.
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.