OBITUARY
Russell Johnson, 89, ‘Gilligan’s Island’ Sage, Dies
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By BRUCE WEBER
New York Times
January 16, 2014
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Russell Johnson, an actor who made a living by often playing villains in westerns until he was cast as the Professor, the brains of a bunch of sweetly clueless, self-involved, hopelessly naïve island castaways, on the hit sitcom “Gilligan’s Island,” died on Thursday at his home in Bainbridge Island, Wash. He was 89.
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