Elmer Bradley Brad Johnson , was an American film and television actor, best remembered for his role as the deputy Lofty Craig on the 1950s Western series, Annie Oakley. After his last television appearance, in a 1967 episode of CBSs Gunsmoke, Johnson spent the remainder of his life as a real estate developer in Los Angeles, California.
Of Swedish extraction, Johnson was born on his paternal grandparents 100acre peach farm between Marysville in Yuba County and Yuba City in Sutter County in northern California. His father, Carl Elmer Johnson , died shortly before his sons birth and is interred at the nearby Yuba City Cemetery. His mother, the former Eula Ball Bradley, a native of Michigan, reared Brad through her work as a teacher. When Brad was thirteen, he received his eighthgrade certificate from his motherteachers oneroom school.
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