Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games

Think Big

Licence to Kill

The Kid From Nowhere

Roots: The Next Generations

The Loneliest Runner

Quincy, M.E.

Free to Be… You and Me

The Six Million Dollar Man

The Red, White, and Black

The Games

The Last Grenade

Tarzan and the Jungle Boy

Star Spangled Salesman

Tarzan and the Great River

Mission: Impossible

Tarzan

None But the Brave

Daniel Boone

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Pirates of Tortuga

Wild in the Country

The Grand Olympics

The Fiercest Heart

The Sins of Rachel Cade

Sergeant Rutledge

Lassie

Rafer Lewis Johnson (August 18, 1934 – December 2, 2020) was an American decathlete and film actor. He was the 1960 Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon, having won silver in 1956. He had previously won a gold at the 1955 Pan American Games. Johnson was the U.S. team's flag bearer at the 1960 Olympics and lit the Olympic cauldron at the Los Angeles Games in 1984.
In 1968, Johnson, football player Rosey Grier, and journalist George Plimpton tackled Sirhan Sirhan moments after he had fatally shot Robert F. Kennedy.
After he retired from athletics, Johnson turned to acting, sportscasting, and public service and was instrumental in creating the California Special Olympics. His acting career included appearances in The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961), the Elvis Presley film Wild in the Country (1961), Pirates of Tortuga (1961), None but the Brave (1965), two Tarzan films with Mike Henry, The Last Grenade (1970), Soul Soldier (1970), Roots: The Next Generations (1979), the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989), and Think Big (1990).

Rafer Johnson