Milton Johns
- Acting
- May 13, 1938 · 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 · Kelner (archive footage)
- The Basil Brush Show · Mr. Rossiter, Mr Rossiter
- Born and Bred · Ernest Gilles
- Making a Killing · L.T. Harvey
- Badger
- The Scarlet Pimpernel · Fisher
- The X-Files · British Valet
- Sharpe's Revenge · Hopkinson
- The Missing Postman · Len Denbigh
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders · Mr Meikeljohn
- Ellington · Announcer
- Joseph · Vintner
- Stanley's Dragon · Mr Batley
- Sharpe · Hopkinson
- Roy's Raiders · Winco
- The Upper Hand · Store Manager
- Campion · William Potter
- Precious Bane · Grimble
- War and Remembrance · Adolf Eichmann
- Hell's Bells · Wilfred Hankey
- Mussolini: The Untold Story · German Ambassador
- Super Gran · Mr. L. Chop
- Dempsey and Makepeace · Sid Lowe
- Wuffer · Mr. Wilberforce
- Foxy Lady
- Tishoo · Cullin
- Murphy's Mob · Derek Cassidy
- American Playhouse · George Kistiakowsky
- Bergerac · Lonny Rice
- Bread or Blood · Harbutt
- Oppenheimer · George Kistiakowsky
- Hammer House of Horror · A.J. Powers
- The Empire Strikes Back · Bewil
- Minder · Mr. Sinclair
- Shoestring · Porter
- Butterflies
- A Horseman Riding By · Reverend Horsey
- Born and Bred · Freddie Peglar
- Spearhead · Mr Adams
- Will Shakespeare · Dr Alcibiades
- The Limbo Connection · Tim Kennaway
- Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time · Castellan Kelner
- Going Straight · Mr. Kirby
- Armchair Thriller · Tim Kennaway
- Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle · George Lintz
- Dickens of London · Samuel Starey
- The Imp of the Perverse · The Servant
- Doctor Who: The Android Invasion · Guy Crayford
- Poldark · Matthew Sanson
- The Poisoning of Charles Bravo · Griffiths
- The Good Life · Ernie
- South Riding
- Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove? · Evelyn de Plume
- Centre Play · The Servant
- Baffled! · Dr. Reed
- The Jensen Code · Mr Richards
- Crown Court · Gus Enderby
- The Protectors · Conway
- The Adventurer · Alex
- New Scotland Yard · Marty Lewis
- The Intruder · Sonny
- Budgie · Nervous Docherty
- Sense and Sensibility · John Dashwood
- Play for Today · Evelyn de Plume
- The Misfit · Evans
- Manhunt · Renard
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre · Bedlam Keeper
- The Expert · Professor Kirk
- Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World · Benik
- ITV Playhouse · Dennis Watson
- Trapped · Linwood
- The Three Musketeers · Grimaud
- Softly, Softly
- The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne · March
- Orlando · Darlington
- The Wednesday Play · March, Hugh Shafton
- Doctor Who · Guy Crayford, Kelner
- The Saint · Vargas
- Z-Cars
- No Hiding Place