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Richard "Dick" Johnson (born 26 April 1945) is a part-owner of the V8 Supercar team Dick Johnson Racing and a former racing driver. As a driver, he was a five-time Australian Touring Car Champion and a three-time winner of the Bathurst 1000.
Dick Johnson Is Dead is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Kirsten Johnson and co-written by Johnson and Nels Bangerter. The story focuses on Johnson's father Richard, who suffers from dementia, portraying different ways—some of them violent "accidents"—in which he could ultimately die.
Oct 3, 2020 · ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’ will emotionally destroy you. Here’s why you should watch it anyway Dick Johnson with his daughter, Kirsten, who made a documentary about his death.
- amy.kaufman@latimes.com
- Columnist
Oct 1, 2020 · Pitched artfully between the celebratory and the elegiac, it is an inarguably serious documentary with light, surrealistic flourishes that, at times, veer into exuberant goofiness. Even at its ...
- Kirsten Johnson
Australian sporting great Dick Johnson has revealed his battles to keep the famous Dick Johnson Racing name alive in a soon to be released autobiography that details his life.
Oct 14, 2016 · From ‘rock star’ to long-time guardian of Ford’s racing flame. DICK Johnson became a national identity in 1980 when, while leading Bathurst, his ex-police Ford XD Falcon – literally home-built and home-funded – was taken out by a rock on the track.
Sep 25, 2020 · The resulting film, “Dick Johnson Is Dead” (coming to Netflix on Oct. 2), is a deeply moving vision of life in the face of bodily death and the threatened loss of selfhood, as well as a loving...
