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Bart Johnson has been making a living as an actor for 15 years, but nobody really knew his name until he played Troy Bolton's dad in "High School Musical."
Except the people in tiny Heber. Johnson graduated from Wasatch High School, where he first dabbled in acting in a school production of "West Side Story." It wasn't easy moving to rural Utah from Los Angeles at 15, says Johnson, But now he describes the experience as "terrific."
"It definitely made me who I am," he said in a telephone interview just days after the blockbuster TV premiere of "High School Musical 2." "It forced me and my friends to survive on personality and create...