Johnson had a recurring role on the TV series "The Client List" for Lifetime as Beau Berkhalter as well as on "Gortimer Gibbon's Life On Normal Street" for Amazon, alongside his wife Robyn Lively and their three children. He starred in a Hallmark movie, "The Christmas Spirit", alongside Nicollette Sheridan. Johnson also appeared in the 2013 vampire comedy "Vamp U". He portrayed Senator Gordon H. Smith in "The Saratov Approach", a film based on the 1998 kidnapping of LDS missionaries in Saratov, Russia. He has worked on multiple projects with his brothers, including a short film about the brothers' adventures in Mexico entitled "The Run," as well as "Waffle Street," an independent movie filmed in Lehi, Utah. He appeared alongside wife Robyn Lively and actress Katee Sackhoff in the independent film "Lockdown" (later renamed "A Deadly Obsession") in 2011. In 2018, he played Papa March in a modern-day adaptation of "Little Women". In 2020, he appeared as Siena Agudong's character's father on Hawaii Five-0.