Born in Dublin, to the Irish actor/director Shelah Richards and the playwright Denis Johnston, a cousin of the late actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, via Fitzgerald's mother, Edith, Johnston was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and currently lives in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Ella Fitzgerald | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Geraldine Farrar | Edward FitzGerald (poet) | Geraldine Ferraro | SS Edmund Fitzgerald | Geraldine Chaplin | Edward Fitzgerald | Patrick Fitzgerald | Maurice Fitzgerald | Cantor Fitzgerald | The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' | Garret FitzGerald | Zelda Fitzgerald | William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center | Penelope Fitzgerald | Lord Edward FitzGerald | FitzGerald dynasty | Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook | Edward Fitzgerald Beale | Edward FitzGerald | Ryan Fitzgerald | John Anster Fitzgerald | James FitzGerald | Fitzgerald River National Park | Fitzgerald | Barry Fitzgerald | William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey | William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster |
During his episodic journey, he befriends a Bible-quoting hitchhiker (Michael Butler) and underage runaway Ginger (Melanie Mayron), visits his daughter (Ellen Burstyn), a bookstore owner in Chicago, and drops in on an early sweetheart (Geraldine Fitzgerald) in a retirement home, where she suffers from dementia.
Crystal Shackleford (Geraldine Fitzgerald) lures two strangers, solicitor Jerome K. Arbutny (Sydney Greenstreet) and charming and erudite drunkard Johnny West (Peter Lorre) to her London flat on Chinese New Year in 1938 because of her belief that if three strangers make the same wish to an idol of Kwan Yin, Chinese goddess of fortune and destiny, the wish will be granted.