Johnny Mathis
Actor
- Born
- September 30, 1935 (age 91) · Gilmer, Texas, USA
Johnny Mathis is an American singer of popular music, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and 73 making the Billboard charts. Guinness world records and music charts historian Paul Gambaccini confirms Mathis record sales have surpassed well over 360 million worldwide. This makes Johnny Mathis the 3rd biggest selling artist of the 20th century after Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra (as for 2018).
Although he is frequently described as a romantic singer, his discography includes traditional pop, Brazilian, Spanish, soul, rhythm and blues, soft rock, show tunes, blues, country, and even a few disco songs for his album Mathis Magic in 1979. Mathis has also recorded six albums of Christmas music.
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In 2014, Mathis was inducted into the Great American Songbook Hall Of Fame. In 2017, Mathis' alma mater San Francisco State University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree. Mathis attended San Francisco State for three semesters before withdrawing in 1956 to pursue his music career.
Known for
Just Getting Started
December 1, 2017
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
August 23, 2019
The Muppets Go Hollywood
May 16, 1979
Lizzie
April 4, 1957
Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark
May 13, 2014
A Certain Smile
July 31, 1958
Killing Me Softly: The Roberta Flack Story
July 13, 2014
My Music: A Classic Christmas
November 16, 2019
'51 Dons
February 9, 2014
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
March 20, 1995
Johnny Mathis - Gold
January 29, 2007
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
July 23, 1990
Acting24
- 2025Johnny Mathis At The BBC
- 2024I Can't Give You Anything But Love: The Jimmy McHugh Story as Self
- 2023The Philly Sound... Heard 'Round the World as Self
- 2019My Music: A Classic Christmas as Self (archive footage)
- 2019Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool as Self - Singer (archive footage)
- 2017Just Getting Started as Johnny Mathis
- 2014Killing Me Softly: The Roberta Flack Story as Self
- 2014Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark as Self
- 2014'51 Dons as Narrator
- 2011