George Johnson/late 1983 Interview

Transcript

 * INTERVIEWER: Hey George, tell me about yourself.
 * GEORGE: My name is George Johnson, I'm 45 years old, and I've been an actor and filmmaker since 1952.
 * INTERVIEWER: So tell me why you started acting.
 * GEORGE: Well, in 1952 two years after my family and I moved to Brooklyn, New York, from Wildwood, New Jersey, a city where I was born, my parents had to choose whether to start acting or start an amusement park business where my older brother and my youngest sister did this. So I said "Well, since New York City was were they started making movies, so I'm going to chose started acting", that's where I got it started.
 * INTERVIEWER: How old are you at that time?
 * GEORGE: I was 14, where I got it started.
 * INTERVIEWER: 14?!
 * GEORGE: Yeah. And after that I changed my name from Georgy Thomas Anderson to George Johnson. It's like Jerry Silberman changed to Gene Wilder.
 * INTERVIEWER: Ok. How did you meet Emily Matthews?
 * GEORGE: Well, in late 1964, I was at the airport to see Emily Matthews, which was English actress who appeared in UK movies in the 1960's. I met her and I moved to a new Brooklyn apartment, and we later married in March 1965, and we were still together until the day I died.