Johnny Legend obit

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RIP Johnny Legend, Rockabilly Musician, Director & Wrestling Manager

Johnny Legend & His Skullcaps

My Breakfast with Blassie, w/ Andy Kaufman and  Freddie Blassie

Incredibly Strange Wrestling

Bride of Re-Animator, Children of the Corn III, Man on the Moon.

Legend was born in San Fernando, California on October 3, 1948. In 1981, Legend and Linda Lautrec saw My Dinner With Andre. The two thought of spoofing the film and in 1982, the couple produced, wrote and, together with Mark Shepard, directed My Breakfast with Blassie, starring comedian Andy Kaufman and wrestling manager Freddie Blassie. Legend's sister Lynne Margulies, who also appeared in the film, subsequently became Kaufman's girlfriend.

In 1995, Legend co-founded Incredibly Strange Wrestling, a wrestling promotion active in San Francisco until the early 2000s.

In 2000, January 14 to 20, Legend did a week showing films at the Clinton St. Theater in Portland, Oregon. Among the features he presented were, The Sadist, The T.A.M.I Show, My Breakfast with Blassie, Two Thousand Maniacs!, and more.

Legend died from complications of a stroke and heart failure in Newport, Oregon, on January 2, 2026, at the age of 77.

Filmography

The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet (1969)

The Cat Ate The Parakeet (AKA Pot, Parents And Police) (1972) (As Martin Margulies)

Sexual Sensory Perception (1975)

Young, Hot 'N' Nasty Teenage Cruisers (1977)

Fantasm Comes Again (1977) (As Martin Margulies)

My Breakfast with Blassie (1983) (With Andy Kaufman)

Prison Ship (1988)

Bride of Re-Animator (1990)

Severed Ties (1992)

Children of the Corn III (1995)

Bug Buster (1998)

Man on the Moon (1999)

Skinwalker – Curse of the Shaman (2005)