---
name: "Volair Johnson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/volair-johnson"
fi1m_id: "volair-johnson"
imdb_id: "nm0426413"
tmdb_id: 52821
roles: ["Actor"]
died: "9 July 2021"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T17:48:05.372753+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Volair Johnson

## Identity

Volair Johnson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/volair-johnson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** volair-johnson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0426413
- **TMDB ID:** 52821
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0426413/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/52821

Actor. Died 9 July 2021.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Died:** 9 July 2021
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0426413/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/52821

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Harder They Come*](https://film.one/film/the-harder-they-come.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Volair Johnson, also credited as Volier Johnson, was a Jamaican actor. He played the Pushcart Boy in Perry Henzell's *The Harder They Come* (1972).

A protégé of playwright Trevor Rhone, Johnson began acting while at St Andrew Technical High School, where Rhone was his drama teacher. His first stage role was in Rhone’s adaptation of *A Christmas Carol*. He later became a prolific stage actor and appeared in the films *Milk and Honey* (1988) and *Better Mus’ Come* (2011).

Johnson died on 9 July 2021 in Kingston, Jamaica.

*Sources: imdb.com, jamaicaobserver.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Harder They Come* (1972), Fi1m 80, as Pushcart Boy — [page](https://film.one/film/the-harder-they-come.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Harder They Come* (1972), as Pushcart Boy — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-harder-they-come.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/volair-johnson