Karl Johnson
Born: 1948-03-01 in Wales, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
Karl Johnson is a Welsh actor, appearing on stage, film and television. His most notable role to date is the title role in Derek Jarman's 1993 film Wittgenstein and those of Cato the Younger in the television drama series Rome and of Twister Turrill in the BBC costume drama Lark Rise to Candleford.
Filmography
2024
- Truelove as Tom
2023
- Wolf as Colonel Frink
- The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies as Bill
- National Theatre Live: The Crucible
2021
- Dream Horse as Kerby
- Too Close as James de Cadenet
- National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood as Richard Jenkins
2020
- Endgame & Rough for Theatre II as Nagg
2019
- The Last Vermeer as Bernard Bakker
2017
- The Death of Stalin as Dr. Lukomsky
- Born to Kill as Mr. Williams
- Kaleidoscope as John
2016
- Mum as Reg
- The Carer as Joseph
- Winter Thaw as Stepanovich
- Mother as Old Man in Café
- Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2015
- National Theatre Live: Hamlet as Ghost / Gravedigger
2014
- Lovesick as Richard
- Mr. Turner as Mr. Booth
- Under Milk Wood as Drowned / Voice
- The Gospel According to St Derek as Self
2013
- Atlantis as Itheus
- It's Kevin as Various
- The Sea as Blunden
- Mr Invisible as The Handler
2012
- Call the Midwife as Mr. Masterson
- Good Vibrations as George Hooley
2011
- The Deep Blue Sea as Mr. Miller
- National Theatre Live: Frankenstein as De Lacey
- The Pier as Larry McCarthy
2010
- Third Star as Ticket Seller
2009
- Is Anybody There? as Arthur (uncredited)
- I Know You Know as Ernie
2008
- Merlin as Taliesin
- Lark Rise to Candleford as Twister Turrill
- The Edge of Love as Dai Fred
2007
- Hot Fuzz as PC Bob Walker
- Four Last Songs as Erico
- The Trial of Tony Blair as Father Lunt
- Dog Altogether as Jack
2006
- The Illusionist as Doctor / Old Man
- Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire as Marcellus
- Copying Beethoven as Stefan Holtz
- The Chatterley Affair as Mr. Justice Byrne
- Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes as Norman Douglas
2004
- New Tricks
- When I'm Sixty-Four as Billy
- England Expects
2003
- 77 Beds as Spiritual Father
2002
- Born and Bred as Alec Rossendale
- Pure as Granddad
- What's Your Problem?
- Tomorrow La Scala! as Sydney
1999
- David Copperfield as Tungay
1998
- Vanity Fair as Major Loder
- Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon as John Deakin
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Derek Lockwood
1996
- Saint-Ex as Didier Daurat
1994
- The Lifeboat as Hughie Jones
1993
- Wittgenstein as Ludwig Wittgenstein
1991
- Close My Eyes as Colin
- Let Him Have It as Parris
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Saunders
- A Tale of Two Cities as Solomon Pross/'John Barsad'
- Rules of Engagement as Dave Gillespie
- The Shawl as Charles
1988
- The Play on One as Charles
- The Black and Blue Lamp as PC "Taffy" Hughes
1987
- A Prayer for the Dying as Fitzgerald
- Prick Up Your Ears as Douglas Orton
1985
- The Mysteries as Jesus / Abel
1984
- Night Court as Dave Costanza
- The Bill
1982
1981
- Bergerac as Henry Morant
- Sons and Lovers as Paul Morel
- Sons and Lovers as Paul Morel
1979
- Shoestring as Dennis Philips
- The Tempest as Ariel, an airy spirit
- The Other Side as Colin
1978
- Jubilee as Sphinx
- Cold Harbour as Geoff
1975
- Chips with Everything as Wilfe Seaford
1972
- Rainbow as Himself (singer)
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Wilf Seaford
1955
- The Sooty Show as Himself