Mark Johnson

 Johnson first got involved in show business in the year 1965 acting as the deputy sheriff in the Spanish " Spaghetti Western" Brandy, produced by Jose Luis Borau. Johnson spent the majority of his teenage years in Spain where he worked as a movie extra in movies like Nicholas and Alexandra by Franklin Schaffner and David Lean's Dr. Zhivago. The early years of his life led him to small acting roles in the European western Ride and Kill and the 1964 film The Thin Red Line. Johnson moved to New York after completing a bachelor's degree in drama at the University of Virginia. He also received an MAin Film Scholarship from the University of Iowa. He was accepted into the Director's Guild program. One of his first productions included Paul Mazursky's autobiographical drama Next Stop, Greenwich Village. Johnson was a resident of Los Angeles, where he worked as an assistant director on projects like Movie Movie, Escape from Alcatraz Escape from Alcatraz Mel Brooks's High Anxiety and The Brink's Job. In the context of Baltimore Pictures, his partnership with Levinson, Johnson produced all of the director's scripts from 1982-1994. Their diverse filmography includes Rain Man, Good Morning, Vietnam and Tin Men. Toys, Young Sherlock Holmes and Avalon were as well as part of Johnson's collaboration with Levinson. From 1982 until 1994, Johnson was the producer of every director-writer's film. Bugsy also won the Best Picture Golden Globe Award.