Philip S. Johnson

Philip S. Johnson (January 27, 1953 – November 11, 2011) was an American violinist. Though he was a promising talent in his youth, his career never took off. He is now known to have stolen the Ames Stradivarius, a valuable antique violin, from Roman Totenberg in 1980. Although Johnson was suspected, the instrument was not recovered until 2015, four years after his death (and three years after Totenberg's death).