Milton Johns
Born: 1938-05-13 in Bristol - Gloucestershire - England - UK
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2012
- The Village that Came to Life as Self
2008
- The Ties That Bind Us as Kelner (archive footage)
- Out of Time as Self
2002
- Born and Bred as Ernest Gilles
- Making a Killing as L.T. Harvey
- The Basil Brush Show as The Caretaker
1999
- The Scarlet Pimpernel as Fisher
- Badger
1998
- The X-Files as British Valet
1997
- The Missing Postman as Len Denbigh
1996
- Ellington as Announcer
1995
- Joseph as Mundschenk
1994
- Stanley's Dragon as Mr. Batley
1993
- Sharpe as Hopkinson
1990
- The Upper Hand as Store Manager
1989
- Campion as William Potter
1988
1986
- Hell's Bells as Wilfred Hankey
1985
- Dempsey and Makepeace as Sid Lowe
- Super Gran as Mr. L. Chop
- Mussolini: The Untold Story as German Ambassador
1981
- Bergerac as Lonny Rice
- Bread or Blood as Harbutt
1980
- The Empire Strikes Back as Bewil
- Hammer House of Horror as A.J. Powers
- Oppenheimer as George Kistiakowsky
1979
- Minder as Mr. Sinclair
- Shoestring as Porter
1978
- Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time as Castellan Kelner
- Born and Bred as Freddie Peglar
- Armchair Thriller as Tim Kennaway
- Going Straight as Mr. Kirby
- Life of Shakespeare as Dr. Alcibiades
- Butterflies
- A Horseman Riding By as Reverend Horsey
- Spearhead as Mr Adams
- The Limbo Connection as Tim Kennaway
1977
- Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle as George Lintz
1976
- Dickens of London as Samuel Starey
1975
- Poldark as Matthew Sanson
- The Good Life as Ernie
- Doctor Who: The Android Invasion as Guy Crayford
- The Imp of the Perverse as The Servant
1974
- South Riding
- Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove? as Evelyn de Plume
1973
- Baffled! as Dr. Reed
- Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
- The Jensen Code as Mr. Richards
1972
- Crown Court as Gus Enderby
- The Protectors as Conway
- The Adventurer as Alex
- The Intruder as Sonny
1971
- Budgie as Nervous Docherty
- Sense and Sensibility as John Dashwood
1970
- Play for Today as Evelyn de Plume
- Manhunt as Renard
- The Misfit as Evans
1968
- The Expert as Professor Kirk
- Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World as Benik
1966
- Softly, Softly
- The Three Musketeers as Grimaud
1965
- Orlando as Darlington
- The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne as March
1964
- The Wednesday Play as March
1963
- Doctor Who as Guy Crayford