Music editor Ken Johnson was born in Chicago, Illinois, schooled in Oregon, and moved to the Hollywood area to pursue a career in motion pictures.   Starting out at the old Eagle-Lion Studios, Ken soon found himself working in editorial departments  under such mentors as Adrienne Fazan at MGM, working on “Lust For Life,” and Fred W. Berger, who called him in to work on a “little 13-week-guaranteed series” called “Gunsmoke.”  With the advent of “Have Gun, Will Travel,” he was moved from  film editing to music editing on the first of a career of TV series and features. 
 

In the 1960's, Ken formed lifetime friendships as an editor with famed  composers Earle Hagen and Herb Spencer on the hit television series  “Make Room For Daddy,” "Gomer Pyle USMC," "The Andy Griffith Show,"  “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” "I Spy," "Mod Squad" and many more.  He was also called to edit the music on several Features, including “Harold and Maude,” “Shampoo,” “Stand and Deliver,” “Kotch,” “Nashville,” and “Bill Cosby – Himself”. 
 

In 1971, Ken assisted Earle Hagen in the creation of the book "Scoring for Films" which remains one of the premier texts for film composers throughout the world. Until his retirement in the late 1990's, Ken worked with many composers, including Hugo Friedhofer, Bill Conti, Craig Safan, Mark Snow, Pino Donaggio, Paul Simon, Lalo Shifrin, Elmer Bernstein, John Cameron, Pete Carpenter, Nelson Riddle, Shorty Rogers, Lee Holdridge, James Newton Howard, John Beal and Patrick Williams.