![]() ![]() After graduating from high school in 1967, he enrolled at the University of Kansas as a theater major, but dropped out after one year. ![]() His biography noted that he had previously appeared in Burnt Cork & Melody and The Hullabaloo. As a senior, he played the lead role of Tony in West Side Story. He graduated from Wichita South High School, where he was involved in the high school's theater program. Johnson was raised in poverty in Wichita, Kansas, where his parents relocated when he was six years old. At the time of his birth, Johnson's mother and father were 16 and 19 years old, respectively. His father, Fredie Wayne Johnson (1930–2017), was a farmer. His mother, Nell ( née Wilson 1933–1975), was a beautician. Johnson was born on December 15, 1949, in Flat Creek, Missouri. His cover version of " Heartbeat" peaked at No. As a singer, he released the albums Heartbeat (1986) and Let It Roll (1989). Johnson has appeared in films such as A Boy and His Dog (1975), Tin Cup (1996), Machete (2010), Django Unchained (2012) and Knives Out (2019). Johnson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1996. He also played the titular character in the 1990s series Nash Bridges. He played the role of James "Sonny" Crockett in the 1980s television series Miami Vice, for which he won a Golden Globe, and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his work in the role. Information on when Elvis (and Presley) passed away is not available.Donnie Wayne Johnson (born December 15, 1949) is an American actor, producer and singer. George Harwell, who owned and handled Elvis, then housed him at his nursery in Davie. The title character kept her pet in a kiddie pool.Įlvis is buried at Flamingo Gardens in Davie, Florida, which hosted the "Gator World" attraction that was his home until the latter was closed in 1990. In an homage to the original Elvis, the children's series Clarissa Explains It All (which debuted in 1991) featured a baby alligator by the same name. It is speculated that the character was retired due to budget cuts as a result of Vice's declining ratings, or to increase the more serious tone of Seasons 3-5. His status after Crockett left the Metro-Dade Police in 1989 remains unknown. The show's producers also rented another, called Presley, from the owner.īy 1986 Elvis was only seen occasionally and by 1988 was not seen at all. ![]() Apparently the cast and crew were frightened of him at first but came to consider him a regular. It described the big reptile (then about 8 1/2 feet long and weighing 300 pounds) and his duties on the show. The Sun-Sentinel (a South Florida newspaper headquartered in Fort Lauderdale) ran a feature on Elvis in October 1985. Elvis also had a voracious appetite, eating whole fish, bags of dog food, or anything else just lying around. Though he was supposedly a "watch-gator", Elvis would often sleep on the job, letting bad guys onto his boat-though when awake he would scare interlopers such as Maxwell Dierks, nearly making "dork-meat" out of him when he tried to take Crockett's Daytona with his snarling and hissing. Elvis is known to have separation anxiety, at least in his early days, as he would go (unexpectedly) visit Crockett's marina neighbors, eating food, dumping his "leavings", and trashing their boats while Crockett was working, even taking a bite out of his Buddy Holly record collection once. A former mascot for Crockett's alma mater University of Florida Gators (retired after biting a free safety from the University of Georgia), Crockett took him in as the "resident drug-sniffer and watch gator" of his boat, the St. Elvis is the pet alligator of Metro-Dade Detective James "Sonny" Crockett. ![]()
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