Monica Johnson

Monica McGowan Johnson (February 21, 1946 – November 1, 2010) was an American novelist and screenwriter whose film credits included Mother, Lost in America, Modern Romance, Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again and The Muse. Her television credits included The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Laverne & Shirley. She was a frequent collaborator with Albert Brooks.

Johnson was born in 1946 in Colorado, but was raised in El Centro, California. Her brother, Jerry Belson, a longtime Emmy Award winning screenwriter and film producer, died in 2006.

Johnson, a resident of Palm Springs, California, died of esophageal cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on November 1, 2010, aged 64. She was survived by her husband, Charles Lohr; a daughter, Heidi Johnson; and her brother, Gordon Belson.

Filmography

• The Paul Lynde Show (1973) (TV)
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1973) (TV)
• Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers (1974) (TV)
• The Cheerleaders (1976) (TV)
• Laverne & Shirley (1977) (TV)
• The Plant Family (1978) (TV)
• Real Life (with Albert Brooks and Harry Shearer) (1979)
• Americathon (with Neal Israel, Michael Mislove, Phil Proctor and Peter Bergman) (1979)
• Modern Romance (with Albert Brooks) (1981)
• Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (with Jerry Belson, Harvey Miller and Michael J. Leeson) (1982)
• Lost in America (with Albert Brooks) (1985)
• It's Garry Shandling's Show (1990) (TV)
• Good Sports (1991) (TV)
• The Scout (with Roger Angell, Andrew Bergman and Albert Brooks) (1994)
• Mother (with Albert Brooks) (1996)
• The Muse (with Albert Brooks) (1999)

External links

• Monica Johnson at the Internet Movie Database