Biography
David Johansen (9 January 1950 – 28 February 2025) was an American singer, songwriter and actor. He was the lead singer of the proto-punk band the New York Dolls and performed under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter.
Johansen appeared in several films and television series. He played the Ghost of Christmas Past, depicted as a chain-smoking taxi driver, in the 1988 film Scrooged. Other credits include roles in Married to the Mob (1988), Let It Ride (1989), Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990), Freejack (1992), Mr. Nanny (1993), Oz (1997) and A Very Murray Christmas (2015).
