John Dennis Johnston

John Dennis Johnston (born May 14, 1950) is an American film and television actor. He has appeared in a number of feature films including Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Streets of Fire, and Flesh+Blood, as well as various TV series such as In Plain Sight and The Golden Girls. Johnston attended Hunter College in New York City where he studied drama under Lloyd Richards and Harold Clurman. In 1981, he married Karla Pitti, daughter of cowboy-singer and actor Carl Pitti, but they later separated. Johnston is also an avid cyclist and a cycling safety activist.