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Brad Johnson Of ‘Melrose Place,’ Marlboro Man Ads Dies At 62

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According to the article Johnson died from COVID-19 related complications.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brad Johnson, who jumped from rodeo cowboy to portraying the Marlboro Man in cigarette spots and film and TV roles including Steven Spielberg’s “Always” and “Melrose Place,” has died. He was 62.

Johnson died Feb. 18 in Fort Worth, Texas, of complications from COVID-19, his agent, Linda McAlister, said Saturday.

Johnson played opposite Holly Hunter in 1989’s “Always,” a remake of a 1943 film (“A Guy Named Joe”) about firefighting pilots. He played a pilot again in the 2000 religious apocalyptic thriller “Left Behind,” starring Kirk Cameron, and was in its two sequels.
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I take it he was the Marlboro Man in print/billboard ads, given that he was 11 when cigarette commercials were outlawed.
 
He could not have been the original Marlboro Man (who was already an adult during my high school years 60 years ago).
 
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