Matt Johnson — Big Wednesday Character Profile

About Matt Johnson

Central friend characterized as self-destructive with a devil-may-care attitude. His journey follows the trio's surfing passion from 1962 through draft avoidance and into adulthood.

Matt Johnson — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Jan-Michael Vincent

Appears in

Big Wednesday (1978)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (2)

• Matt Johnson — Social Best Friends — Leroy "The Masochist" Smith (Gary Busey)

  Core lifelong bond between the two protagonists.

• Matt Johnson — Social Best Friends — Jack Barlow (William Katt)

  Core lifelong bond between the two protagonists.

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• Jack Barlow (William Katt)
• Leroy "The Masochist" Smith (Gary Busey)
• Sally (Patti D'Arbanville)
• Party Girl (Charlene Tilton)
• Peggy Gordon (Lee Purcell)
• Ostrich (Keith Davis)
• Bride of the Bear (Celia Milius)
• Breathman (Johnny Fain)
• Panhead (Rick Dano)
• Jim "Waxer" King (Darrell Fetty)
• Lucy (Fran Ryan)
• Mrs. Barlow (Barbara Hale)