Entertainment Lawyer and Sports Executive. He grew up in Ione, California and received his bachelor and law degrees from Stanford University where he later became chairman of the board of visitors. He also donated his Colorado ranch to the law school and that is the largest gift the school has ever received. His famous clients included William Holden, William S. Paley, James Stewart, Bing Crosby, Shirley Temple, Dinah Shore, Gary Cooper, CBS and Paramount Studios. For a dozen years beginning in 1981, he was in New York as an executive and director of Warner Communications and then of Time Warner. He was president of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team for a time. He was a trustee of the American Film Institute and the California Institute of Technology, a member of boards at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a director of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, the Boy Scouts of America, the Actors Fund and the American Museum of the Moving Image. The Deane F. Johnson Alzheimer's Research Foundation was established in 1999 by his widow. The mission of the foundation is to fund research focused on preventing and curing this dreadful disease. He died at his home at the age of 80.
Entertainment Lawyer and Sports Executive. He grew up in Ione, California and received his bachelor and law degrees from Stanford University where he later became chairman of the board of visitors. He also donated his Colorado ranch to the law school and that is the largest gift the school has ever received. His famous clients included William Holden, William S. Paley, James Stewart, Bing Crosby, Shirley Temple, Dinah Shore, Gary Cooper, CBS and Paramount Studios. For a dozen years beginning in 1981, he was in New York as an executive and director of Warner Communications and then of Time Warner. He was president of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team for a time. He was a trustee of the American Film Institute and the California Institute of Technology, a member of boards at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a director of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, the Boy Scouts of America, the Actors Fund and the American Museum of the Moving Image. The Deane F. Johnson Alzheimer's Research Foundation was established in 1999 by his widow. The mission of the foundation is to fund research focused on preventing and curing this dreadful disease. He died at his home at the age of 80.
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