Of the big-name guest stars who appeared on Gilligan's Island, only one could get the best of The Professor. This famous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2004, Johnson sat down with the Television Academy Foundation and looked back on it all with a mix of humor, humility and ...

Actor Russell Johnson, who became known to generations of TV fans as “The Professor,” the fix-it man who kept his fellow “Gilligan’s Island” castaways supplied with gadgets, has died. He was 89.

RIP Russell Johnson, better known as the Professor on "Gilligan's Island." Always levelheaded, even as Gilligan's bumbling ruined escape attempt after escape attempt, he was the original MacGyver — ...

To most of the world, Russell Johnson was the Professor on Gilligan's Island, the calm voice of reason in the middle of coconut radios, bamboo gadgets and endless rescue plans that never quite worked ...

Actor Russell Johnson, who became known to generations of TV fans as "The Professor," the fix-it man who kept his fellow "Gilligan's Island" castaways supplied with gadgets, has died. He was 89.

Russell Johnson has passed away at the age of 89. The actor, who was best known for playing the Professor on Gilligan's Island, died at his Washington home of kidney failure on Thursday, Jan. 16. "He ...

NEW YORK -- The actor who played The Professor on Gilligan s Island, Russell Johnson, has died. His agent, Mike Eisenstadt, says Johnson died Thursday morning at his home in Washington State of ...