Johnny (Night of the Living Dead)

Johnny was played by Russell Streiner in the original movie and Bill Moseley in the remake. He is in both movies the brother of Barbara, one of the protagonists in both movies.

Johnny (1968)
In 1968, Johnny and his sister Barbara drive to a cemetery in Pittsburgh to visit their deceased father's grave. During the visit, Johnny recalls that he used to scare Barbara in the cemetery. He then begins teasing her again.

When he sees a strange man walking through the cemetery while his sister prays at his grave, he makes cruel jokes about how the man is going to come after her, not realizing that something is wrong with the man. Annoyed, Barbara walks up to the stranger to apologize for her brother's juvenile behavior, but the stranger attacks her. Johnny rushes to help her and fights with the stranger, but he is thrown down, fatally hitting his head on a tombstone. Barbara is then forced to run to protect herself from the stranger who continues to pursue her, leaving Johnny behind.

Johnny later appears again as a zombie. It is revealed that he died from his injures and became a zombie. He is part of the group of zombies attacking the farmhouse where his sister has been hiding with others since running from the cemetery because of the events. When the zombies finally break into the house, the undead Johnny atttacks his sister through the front door. Barbara, stunned at the sight of her zombified brother, lowers her defenses long enough for Johnny to carry her out into the undead where she is presumably devoured offscreen by them.

Johnnie (remake)
In 1990, Johnnie and his younger sister Barbara drive to a cemetery in Pittsburgh to visit their deceased mother's grave who has died 3 months before. During the visit, Johnny recalls that he used to scare Barbara in the cemetery and sees it as all right as her older brother of doing it. He then begins teasing her again. When he sees a strange man walking through the cemetery, he makes cruel jokes about how the man is going to come after her, not realizing that something is wrong with the man. Annoyed, Barbara walks up to the stranger to apologize for her brother's juvenile behavior, but the stranger attacks her and then leaves her alone only to be attacked by another from behind. Johnny rushes to help her and fights with the stranger, but he is thrown down, fatally hitting his head on a tombstone. Barbara is then forced to run to protect herself from the stranger who continues to pursue her, leaving Johnnie behind.

It turns out that he became a zombie and that he later was killed by the militia when they were hunting the zombies. Barabara finds out about it later and accepts it.