Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Arte Johnson
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Later work=== Johnson guest-starred in two episodes of ''[[The Partridge Family]]'' ("My Heart Belongs to a Two Car Garage" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls... and Tolls... and Tolls") and the situation comedy ''[[A Touch of Grace]]'' (1973). He appeared in the first season of the Detroit-produced children's show ''[[Hot Fudge]]'' (1974) and, for one week, as a celebrity guest panelist on the game show ''[[Match Game]]''. From 1976 to 1980, Johnson was a regular celebrity guest judge on ''[[The Gong Show]]''. In 1976, Johnson voiced the animated cartoon character [[Misterjaw]], a blue, German-accented shark, in ''[[The Pink Panther Show]]''. He also voiced the character "Rhubarb" on ''[[The Houndcats]]'' and appeared as a guest on Canadian TV show ''[[Celebrity Cooks]]'' (1976) with host [[Bruno Gerussi]]. Johnson appeared on an episode of the NBC daytime version of ''[[Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'' in September 1977 as a substitute letter-turner, both to fill in for an injured [[Susan Stafford]], and to promote his short-lived NBC game show ''[[Knockout (game show)|Knockout]]'', which aired through early 1978. Instead of being introduced by the show's announcer, he would start the show with a small monologue, then the announcer would introduce the day's contestants. He was cast as Renfield, the comic sidekick of [[George Hamilton (actor)|George Hamilton]]'s [[Dracula]] in the film ''[[Love at First Bite]]'' (1979) and appeared in the all-star television disaster film ''[[Condominium (miniseries)|Condominium]]'' (1980). He voiced "Weerd" in ''[[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo]]'' (1985), and played a disgruntled employee denied [[severance pay]] in an episode of ''[[Airwolf]]''. He also voiced several other characters: Dr. Ludwig Von Strangebuck and Count Ray on two episodes of ''[[DuckTales (1987 TV series)|DuckTales]]''; Devil Smurf on ''[[The Smurfs (1981 TV series)|The Smurfs]]''; [[Top Cat]] and Lou on ''[[Yo Yogi!]]''; and Newt on ''[[Animaniacs]]''. Johnson guest-starred in the ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' episode "No Laughing Murder" (1987). He also appeared in an episode of ''[[Night Court]]'' (1990). From 1991 to 1992, Johnson appeared in multiple episodes of ''[[General Hospital]]'' as [[List of General Hospital characters#O|Finian O'Toole]]. He played the old laboratory head of a team of scientists working on a serum of youth in ''[[Second Chance (1996 film)|Second Chance]]'' (1996). Johnson performed more than 80 audiobook readings, including Gary Shteyngart's ''[[Absurdistan (novel)|Absurdistan]]'' (2006) and [[Carl Hiaasen]]'s ''Bad Monkey''. He appeared in the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "The Ties That Bind" (2005) as the voice of [[Virman Vundabar]], which was his final acting role before his retirement in 2006.
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)