Milton Johns
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 13, 1938 (age 88)
- Birthplace
- Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Biography
Milton Johns (born 13 May 1938) is an English actor whose thin features and talent for obsequious or oily characters has often influenced the many television parts he has received. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Johns was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire. He was in Coronation Street as Brendan Scott (1991–93), the shopkeeper who died of a heart attack while pedalling along the eponymous cobbled street. Other roles have included parts in Poldark, Born and Bred, Ever Decreasing Circles, Home to Roost, Dempsey and Makepeace, Murder Most English, Shoestring, Yes Minister, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Softly, Softly, Going Straight, The Good Life, Don't Wait Up, Butterflies, Campion and Z-Cars. He played the landlord in The Basil Brush Show (2002–07). Johns also played jobsworth Mr Cassidy in Murphy's Mob, an ITV children's television drama series (1982–85). His character helped to manage the building used by the junior supporters' of the football club, Dunmore United. Johns has appeared in Doctor Who on several occasions: as Theodore Benik in The Enemy of the World; Guy Crayford in The Android Invasion; and Castellan Kelner in The Invasion of Time. In 1972 he starred in the children's Sunday evening series The Intruder and in 1977, appeared in another children's series, Midnight Is A Place. Johns also appeared as an Imperial Officer (Captain Bewil) in the 1980 Star Wars sequel, The Empire Strikes Back. He played Perker in the 1985 adaptation of The Pickwick Papers. In the 1986 television series War and Remembrance, Johns took the role of the senior Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann.
Known For
Filmography
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie · as Kelner (archive footage)
Making a Killing
Movie · as L.T. Harvey
The Basil Brush Show
TV · as Mr. Rossiter, Mr Rossiter · 3 eps
Born and Bred
TV · as Ernest Gilles · 1 ep
The Scarlet Pimpernel
TV · as Fisher · 6 eps
Badger
TV · 1 ep
The X-Files
Movie · as British Valet
The Missing Postman
Movie · as Len Denbigh
Sharpe's Revenge
Movie · as Hopkinson
Ellington
TV · as Announcer · 1 ep
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
TV · as Mr Meikeljohn · 1 ep
Joseph
Movie · as Vintner
Stanley's Dragon
Movie · as Mr Batley
Sharpe
TV · as Hopkinson · 1 ep
Roy's Raiders
TV · as Winco · 6 eps
New Voices
TV · as King · 1 ep
The Upper Hand
TV · as Store Manager · 1 ep
Precious Bane
Movie · as Grimble
Campion
TV · as William Potter · 2 eps
War and Remembrance
TV · as Adolf Eichmann · 1 ep
Hell's Bells
TV · as Wilfred Hankey · 6 eps
Dempsey and Makepeace
TV · as Sid Lowe · 1 ep
Super Gran
TV · as Mr. L. Chop · 1 ep
Mussolini: The Untold Story
TV · as German Ambassador · 4 eps
Wuffer
TV · as Mr. Wilberforce · 5 eps
Tishoo
Movie · as Cullin
Foxy Lady
TV · 12 eps
American Playhouse
TV · as George Kistiakowsky · 2 eps
Murphy's Mob
TV · as Derek Cassidy · 54 eps
Bread or Blood
Movie · as Harbutt
Bergerac
TV · as Lonny Rice · 1 ep
The Empire Strikes Back
Movie · as Bewil
Hammer House of Horror
TV · as A.J. Powers · 1 ep
Oppenheimer
TV · as George Kistiakowsky · 2 eps
Minder
TV · as Mr. Sinclair · 1 ep
Shoestring
TV · as Porter · 1 ep
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
Movie · as Castellan Kelner
The Limbo Connection
Movie · as Tim Kennaway
Going Straight
TV · as Mr. Kirby · 1 ep
Butterflies
TV · 2 eps
Armchair Thriller
TV · as Tim Kennaway · 3 eps
Born and Bred
TV · as Freddie Peglar · 1 ep
Spearhead
TV · as Mr Adams · 5 eps
A Horseman Riding By
TV · as Reverend Horsey · 5 eps
Will Shakespeare
TV · as Dr Alcibiades · 1 ep
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
TV · as George Lintz · 2 eps
Dickens of London
TV · as Samuel Starey · 1 ep
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
Movie · as Guy Crayford
The Imp of the Perverse
Movie · as The Servant
The Good Life
TV · as Ernie · 1 ep
Poldark
TV · as Matthew Sanson · 3 eps
The Poisoning of Charles Bravo
TV · as Griffiths · 3 eps
South Riding
Movie
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
Movie · as Evelyn de Plume
Baffled!
Movie · as Dr. Reed
Centre Play
TV · as The Servant · 1 ep
The Jensen Code
TV · as Mr Richards · 11 eps
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
TV · as Mr. Denham · 1 ep
The Protectors
TV · as Conway · 1 ep
The Adventurer
TV · as Alex · 1 ep
Crown Court
TV · as Gus Enderby · 3 eps
The Intruder
TV · as Sonny · 8 eps
New Scotland Yard
TV · as Marty Lewis · 1 ep
Budgie
TV · as Nervous Docherty · 1 ep
Sense and Sensibility
TV · as John Dashwood · 2 eps
Manhunt
TV · as Renard · 1 ep
Play for Today
TV · as Evelyn de Plume · 1 ep
The Misfit
TV · as Evans · 1 ep
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV · as Bedlam Keeper · 1 ep
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
Movie · as Benik
The Expert
TV · as Professor Kirk · 1 ep
ITV Playhouse
TV · as Dennis Watson · 1 ep
Trapped
TV · as Linwood · 1 ep
Softly, Softly
TV · 1 ep
The Three Musketeers
TV · as Grimaud · 6 eps
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
Movie · as March
Orlando
TV · as Darlington · 1 ep
The Troubleshooters
TV · as Larry Dwyer · 1 ep
The Wednesday Play
TV · as March, Hugh Shafton · 1 ep
Doctor Who
TV · as Guy Crayford, Kelner · 8 eps
Z-Cars
TV · 3 eps
The Saint
TV · as Vargas · 1 ep
No Hiding Place
TV · 1 ep