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  • Descriptive Summary
  • Important Information for Users of the Collection
  • Biography
  • Collection Scope and Content Summary
  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Lamont Johnson papers
    Date (inclusive): 1943-1978
    Collection number: 78
    Creator: Johnson, Lamont
    Extent: 7 linear feet of papers.
    Repository: Margaret Herrick Library. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
    Languages: English

    Important Information for Users of the Collection

    Access

    Available by appointment only.

    Publication rights

    Property rights to the physical object belong to the Margaret Herrick Library. Researchers are responsible for obtaining all necessary rights, licenses, or permissions from the appropriate companies or individuals before quoting from or publishing materials obtained from the library.

    Preferred Citation

    Lamont Johnson papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

    Acquisition Information

    Gift of Lamont Johnson, 1977-1980

    Biography

    Lamont Johnson was an American actor and director active in film from 1967 to 1983. He began acting in live, then filmed, television in 1950. As a staff director for NBC MATINEE THEATER, he directed more than seventy-five episodes beginning in 1956. Johnson's feature film directorial debut was A COVENANT WITH DEATH (1967). His best-known films include THE LAST AMERICAN HERO (1973), LIPSTICK (1976), and SOMEBODY KILLED HER HUSBAND (1978).

    Collection Scope and Content Summary

    The Lamont Johnson papers span the years 1943-1978 and encompass 7.0 linear feet. The collection contains scripts, correspondence, and production records for a dozen films. The television and stage files contain scripts, reviews, and miscellaneous material for more than two dozen projects directed by Johnson between 1958 and 1978, as well as programs and miscellany for a half dozen plays in which Johnson acted in the 1940s. The subject files include correspondence, three diaries, and miscellany.

    Arrangement

    Arranged in the following series: 1. Production files, subseries A-B as follows: A. Produced; B. Unproduced; 2. Television files, subseries A-B as follows: A. Produced; B. Unproduced; 3. Stage files, subseries A-B as follows: A. Plays Johnson directed; B. Plays Johnson appeared in; 4. Subject files

    Indexing Terms

    Johnson, Lamont , 1922-2010--Archives.
    actors
    directors