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
- National Theater Live: The Crucible
- Wolf as Colonel Frink
- The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies as Bill
2021
- Dream Horse as Kerby
- National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood as Richard Jenkins
- Too Close as James de Cadenet
2020
- Endgame & Rough for Theatre II as Nagg
2019
- The Last Vermeer as Bernard Bakker
2017
- Kaleidoscope as John
- The Death of Stalin as Dr. Lukomsky
- Born to Kill as Mr. Williams
2016
- Mother as Old Man in Café
- The Carer as Joseph
- Winter Thaw as Stepanovich
- Aberfan: The Green Hollow
- Mum as Reg
2015
- National Theatre Live: Hamlet as Ghost / Gravedigger
2014
- Lovesick as Richard
- Under Milk Wood as Drowned / Voice
- Mr. Turner as Mr. Booth
- The Gospel According to St Derek as Self
2013
- Atlantis as Itheus
- The Sea as Blunden
- It's Kevin as Various
- 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
- I Know You Know as Ernie
- Is Anybody There? as Arthur (uncredited)
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
- Dog Altogether as Jack
- Four Last Songs as Erico
2006
- The Illusionist as Doctor / Old Man
- Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire as Marcellus
- Copying Beethoven as Stefan Holtz
- Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes as Norman Douglas
2004
- New Tricks
- England Expects
- When I'm Sixty-Four as Billy
2003
- 77 Beds as Spiritual Father
2002
- Pure as Granddad
- Born and Bred as Alec Rossendale
- Tomorrow La Scala! as Sydney
- What's Your Problem?
1999
- David Copperfield as Tungay
1998
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Derek Lockwood
1996
- Dalziel & Pascoe as Stevie Earle
- Saint-Ex as Didier Daurat
1994
1993
- Wittgenstein as Ludwig Wittgenstein
1991
- Close My Eyes as Colin
- Let Him Have It as Parris
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Saunders
- The Shawl as Charles
- A Tale of Two Cities as Solomon Pross/'John Barsad'
- Rules of Engagement as Dave Gillespie
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
- The Tempest as Ariel, an airy spirit
- Shoestring
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