Cher

The Emmy winner and younger brother of Arte Johnson also worked on 'The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour,' 'The Monkees' and lots of cartoons. By Mike Barnes.

Later, he wrote for TV specials starring the likes of Dinah Shore, Jerry Reed, He won his Emmy following the first season of Laugh-In and was nominated six other times during his career. “And then just somebody said, ‘Hey, why don’t you write a TV show?'” Born in Chicago on Nov. 8, 1931, Johnson attended the University of Illinois and served with the U.S. He voiced characters in some of the cartoons that his brother wrote. He got his first credit on a 1966 episode of ABC’s Bewitched and then penned six installments of The Monkees in 1967-68 during the NBC show’s two seasons. He wrote on the first three seasons (1968-70) of NBC’s Laugh-In, the final three seasons (1971-74) of The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour and the lone season (1976-77) of The Sonny and Cher Show, those last two for CBS. Johnson co-wrote one feature, Bunny O’Hare (1971), starring Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine, and co-wrote a 1986 children’s book, American Rabbit: The Case of the Missing Moose. [Monty Hall](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/monty-hall-dead-let-s-make-a-deal-host-803872/), Ben Vereen and John Byner. Other variety shows on his résumé included The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show (which he also produced), The Sonny Comedy Revue and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour. [Arte Johnson](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/arte-johnson-dead-laugh-in-star-905754/), on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In and wrote for two variety shows toplined by Sonny and Cher, has died.