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Producer
Gender
Male
Birthday
27 December
Location
Washington, United States
Edit pageMark Johnson
Biography
Mark Johnson (born December 27, 1945) is an American film and television producer. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the 1988 film Rain Man.
In 1994, Johnson established his own independent production company, Gran Via Productions, and won the Los Angeles Film Critics New Generation Award for his very first effort; A Little Princess, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Under his new banner, Johnson produced the comedy Home Fries, written by Vince Gilligan and starring Drew Barrymore, and the dramatic thriller Donnie Brasco, starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp.
Gilligan won a screenwriting competition of which Johnson was a judge, and subsequently had two of his screenplays produced by Johnson, Home Fries, and Wilder Napalm. Johnson would later serve as a producer for Gilligan's television series Breaking Bad. He also served as executive producer for CBS-TV's L.A. Doctors and Falcone and the hit drama The Guardian.
Johnson was an executive producer on AMC's Emmy Award-winning series Breaking Bad. He was an executive producer on the Sundance Channel original series Rectify, and AMC's Breaking Bad spinoff, Better Call Saul. In 2019 he produced El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie for Netflix.
In 2021, he produced the thriller The Little Things starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto, written and directed by John Lee Hancock. In 2021 he executive produced the AMC+ series adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. In 2023, he executive produced Mayfair Witches, based on another Anne Rice property.
