<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Edith Cahoon (1943--1948; divorced) Kay Cousins (1949--1980; her death) Constance Dane (1982--2014; his death) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Russell David Johnson (November 10, 1924--January 16, 2014) was an American actor, best known for his role as Professor Roy Hinkley in Gilligan's Island . He was also known as Marshal Gib Scott in Black Saddle . </P> <P> Johnson was born in Ashley, Pennsylvania on November 10, 1924 . His parents were Russell Kennedy Johnson (1901--1932) and Minnie Wenonah Smink - Johnson (1902--1976). Johnson was the second - oldest of six children . His siblings were brothers Kenneth (1925--2012), David (1926--1976), and Paul Wesley (1932--1933) (who died from pneumonia only weeks after Johnson's father), and sisters Lorraine Johnson - Crosby (1928 - 2015) and Marian L. Johnson - Reeves (1923--2010). Their father died of pneumonia in December 1932; the youngest of the siblings (Paul Wesley Johnson), died not long after . Minnie Johnson later remarried to Thomas S. Lewis . As a teenager, Johnson attended Girard College, a private boarding school for fatherless boys, located in Philadelphia . </P>

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