Editing David Johansen (section)

===Acting===
Johansen acted in several films during the 1980s and 1990s, and in 2000,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0423774/|title=David Johansen|website=IMDb}}</ref> had a brief role on the [[HBO]] drama series ''[[Oz (TV series)|Oz]]''. He appeared in the television series ''[[The Adventures of Pete & Pete]]'' in the episode "On Golden Pete", in which he played a park ranger. He appeared in the [[Muppet]] Television segment of an episode of ''[[The Jim Henson Hour]]''. He also appeared in ''[[The Equalizer (1985 TV series)|The Equalizer]]'' playing a violent criminal named Garnet in the 1987 episode, "[[The Equalizer (1985 TV series) season 2#ep44|Re-Entry]]." Among his more prominent roles are that of the wisecracking Ghost of Christmas Past in ''[[Scrooged]]'' (1988), which starred [[Bill Murray]]<ref name="Larkin" /> as well as the part of "Looney" in the movie ''[[Let It Ride (film)|Let It Ride]]'' (1989), playing opposite [[Richard Dreyfuss]]. He starred opposite [[Hulk Hogan]] and [[Sherman Hemsley]] in ''[[Mr. Nanny]]'' (1993) and co-starred with [[John C. McGinley]] in the movie ''[[Car 54, Where Are You? (film)|Car 54, Where Are You?]]'' (1994), based on the television series. He can be seen in the [[Jim White (guitarist)|Jim White]] documentary film ''[[Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus]]'' in which he sings a version of [[Geeshie Wiley]]'s "[[Last Kind Words Blues|Last Kind Words]]" while in a [[motel]] room. He also had a supporting role with [[Mick Jagger]] and [[Emilio Estevez]] in the movie ''[[Freejack]]'' (1992). He also played Halston (a hired [[Contract killing|hitman]]) in the anthology film ''[[Tales from the Darkside: The Movie]]'' (1990), in the segment "[[The Cat from Hell]]". He was also the guest music artist on the ''[[Miami Vice]]'' episode "The Dutch Oven" (1985), where he sang "King of Babylon".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0647121/|title=The Dutch Oven|date=October 25, 1985|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref> Johansen most recently portrayed the bartender in the Bill Murray [[Netflix]] special ''[[A Very Murray Christmas]]''. Johansen voiced the villain [[Ding Dong Daddy]] in the original ''[[Teen Titans (TV series)|Teen Titans]]'' animated series in the season 5 episode 9 episode "Revved Up".
Johansen's legs appeared in [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]]'s 1971 film ''[[Up Your Legs Forever]]''.<ref name="Cott2013">{{cite book|author=Jonathan Cott|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ei8DAwAAQBAJ|title=Days That I'll Remember: Spending Time With John Lennon & Yoko Ono|date=July 16, 2013|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=978-1-78323-048-8|page=74}}</ref> He also voiced the Beartaur character in the 2021 ''[[Centaurworld]]'' animated [[Netflix]] television series.{{cn|date=March 2025}}