Eric Johann Johnson is a Canadian actor best known for playing the role of Whitney Fordman on the television series Smallville

Smallville (TV series)

Smallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar based on the DC Comics character Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The television series was initially broadcast by The WB Television Network , premiering on October...

. Johnson left the cast after the first season but resurfaced in guest appearances during the second and fourth seasons.

Career

Johnson's most high-profile role to American audiences before Smallville was playing "Teen Tristan" in Legends of the Fall

Legends of the Fall

Legends of the Fall is a 1994 epic drama film based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison. It was directed by Edward Zwick and stars Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Aidan Quinn. The film was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction , and Best...

. Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt

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 played the same character as an adult. In Canada, Johnson was the lead in an award-winning film titled Scorn. He also recently directed a short film. More recently, Johnson played the lead role in a new Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon (2007 TV series)

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TV series that debuted on Sci Fi

Syfy

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 in August, 2007. The show was canceled after only one season in April 2008. On November 27, 2010 he starred as Jake Finley in the new Hallmark movie, Debbie Macomber

Debbie Macomber

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's Call Me Mrs. Miracle. He currently portrays Luke Callahan on the Canadian drama, Rookie Blue, which has been renewed for a third season as of June 2011.

Personal life

In 2004, Johnson married writer-producer Adria Budd, on his 25th birthday. They have a daughter, Calla Prairie.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1994	Road to Saddle River	Lance
	Legends of the Fall Legends of the Fall Legends of the Fall is a 1994 epic drama film based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison. It was directed by Edward Zwick and stars Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Aidan Quinn. The film was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction , and Best...	teen Tristan
1998	Oklahoma City: A Survivor's Story	Jason	TV film
	Heart of the Sun	Jack
1999	Question of Privilege	Joel Aldridge
	Atomic Train Atomic Train Atomic Train is a 1999 action-thriller film about an accidental nuclear explosion destroying the city of Denver. It was originally broadcast on NBC as a two-part miniseries.-Cast:*Rob Lowe as John Seger*Kristin Davis as Megan Seger...	Danny	TV film
2000	Borderline Normal	Rocco	TV film
	Bear With Me	Scott Robinson
	Scorn	Darren Huenemann	TV film
	Children of Fortune	Andrew Bast	TV film
2001	Texas Rangers Texas Rangers (film) Texas Rangers is a 2001 drama/western film directed by Steve Miner. It is about a group of Texas Rangers set in the post-American Civil War era, rated PG-13.- Plot :...	Rollins
2002	Bang Bang You're Dead	Mark Kenworth	TV film
	Beauty Shot	Chad Johnson
2003	Stealing Sinatra	Dean Torrence
	Hollywood Wives: The New Generation Hollywood Wives: The New Generation Hollywood Wives: The New Generation, also released as Jackie Collins' Hollywood Wives: The New Generation, is a 2003 television film directed by Joyce Chopra...	Brian Richter	TV film
2004	A Friend of the Family	Darris Shaw	TV film
	Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed is a 2003 Canadian horror sequel to Ginger Snaps, written by Megan Martin and directed by Brett Sullivan...	Tyler
	A Clown's Gift	Sam the Clown
	Blinded	John
	Anonymous Rex Anonymous Rex Anonymous Rex is an original movie made for the Sci Fi TV channel, directed by Julian Jarrold and adapted to film by Joe Menosky from the novel Casual Rex by Eric Garcia. The premise of the film is that dinosaurs did not die off, but faked their extinction and now live among humans in disguise...	Rhys	TV film
	The Work and the Glory	Joshua Steed
2005	Falcon Beach Falcon Beach Falcon Beach is a Canadian television show, filmed at Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba, Canada, and produced in Canada for the Canadian and American markets. It originally aired in 2005 as a movie on Global in Canada. It was produced as a TV series for Global and ABC Family in 2006...	Lane Bradshaw	TV film
	Marker	Roddy Dutch	TV film
	The Work and the Glory: American Zion	Joshua Steed
2006	Expiration Date Expiration Date (film) Expiration Date is an independent black comedy film that won many film festival awards.-Plot summary:The story is told by a Native American elderly man to a Native American boy who wants to give up dancing and leave the reservation by bus...	Animal Control Officer #2
	The Work and the Glory: A House Divided	Joshua Steed
	Honeymoon with Mom	Adam
2009	My Nanny's Secret	Drew	TV film, post-production
2010	Meteor Storm	Kyle Pember	TV film
Year	Television appearance	Role	Other notes
1992	The Ray Bradbury Theater The Ray Bradbury Theater The Ray Bradbury Theater is an anthology series that ran for two seasons on HBO, three episodes per season from 1985 to 1986, and four additional seasons on USA Network from 1988 to 1992. It was later shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel...		"The Utterly Perfect Murder"
Night Man Night Man Night Man is an American action/adventure/sci-fi series that aired in syndication from September 15, 1997 to May 17, 1999. The series is loosely based on a comic book published by Malibu Comics and was created by Steve Englehart and developed for television by Glen A...		"Blader"
2001	MythQuest MythQuest MythQuest is a Canadian television series that originally aired on PBS in 2001. It stars Meredith Henderson and Christopher Jacot as Cleo and Alex Bellows, two teens whose father Matt disappears into the Cyber Museum, a computer program that, as they discover, allows them to travel into myths by...	Telemachus Telemachus Telemachus is a figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, and a central character in Homer's Odyssey. The first four books in particular focus on Telemachus' journeys in search of news about his father, who has been away at war...	"The Oracle"
2004	The Collector The Collector (TV series) The Collector is a Canadian Supernatural drama television series about a man attempting to help save people who have bargained their souls with the Devil...	Nick	"The Yogi"
2001–2002, 2003 & 2004	Smallville Smallville Smallville is the hometown of Superman in comic books published by DC Comics. While growing up in Smallville, the young Clark Kent attended Smallville High with best friends Lana Lang, Chloe Sullivan and Pete Ross...	Whitney Fordman	Twenty-four episodes, main character
2006	Criminal Minds Criminal Minds Criminal Minds is an American police procedural drama that premiered September 22, 2005, on CBS. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia. The BAU is part of the FBI National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime...	Sean Hotchner	"The Tribe"
	The Dead Zone The Dead Zone (TV series) The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone is an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma...	young Gene Purdy	"Revelations"
2007	Ghost Whisperer Ghost Whisperer Ghost Whisperer is an American television supernatural drama, which ran on CBS from September 23, 2005 to May 21, 2010.The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon , who has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts...	Gordon Pike	"Speed Demon"
	The Unit The Unit The Unit is an American action-drama television series that focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled after the real-life U.S. Army special operations unit commonly known as Delta Force...	Ethan McNeal	"Games of Chance"
	Everest '82 Everest '82 Everest '82 is an Canadian drama film miniseries directed by Graeme Campbell and written by Keith Ross Leckie. It aired in the fall of 2008 on CBC television and was produced by Alberta Filmworks....	Laurie Skreslet	Mini-series, main character
2007–2008	Flash Gordon Flash Gordon (2007 TV series) Flash Gordon is an American science fiction television series that debuted on Sci Fi in the United States on August 10, 2007 and continued airing new episodes through February 8, 2008. It has also appeared on the United Kingdom Sci Fi Channel and SPACE in Canada...	Steven "Flash" Gordon Flash Gordon Flash Gordon is the hero of a science fiction adventure comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by and created to compete with the already established Buck Rogers adventure strip. Also inspired by these series were comics such as Dash...	Twenty-one episodes, main character
2010	Rookie Blue	Luke Callaghan
2010	Supernatural Supernatural The supernatural or is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature...	Brady	"The Devil You Know"
2010	Call Me Mrs. Miracle	Jake Finley	"Hallmark movie"

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