Milton Johns
Acting
Born: May 13, 1938 (age 88) · Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Highest Rated
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.
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Movies (18)
The Empire Strikes Back
Bewil
The X-Files
British Valet
Joseph
Vintner
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
Guy Crayford
The Ties That Bind Us
Kelner (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
Benik
Stanley's Dragon
Mr Batley
Sharpe's Revenge
Hopkinson
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
Castellan Kelner
Bread or Blood
Harbutt
The Missing Postman
Len Denbigh
Precious Bane
Grimble
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
Evelyn de Plume
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
March
Baffled!
Dr. Reed
South Riding
1974
Tishoo
Cullin
Making a Killing
L.T. Harvey
TV Shows (53)
Doctor Who
Guy Crayford · 8 eps
Doctor Who
Kelner · 6 eps
Crown Court
Gus Enderby · 3 eps
Play for Today
Evelyn de Plume · 1 eps
The Saint
Vargas · 1 eps
American Playhouse
George Kistiakowsky · 2 eps
The Wednesday Play
March · 1 eps
The Wednesday Play
Hugh Shafton · 1 eps
Minder
Mr. Sinclair · 1 eps
Z-Cars
3 eps
ITV Playhouse
Dennis Watson · 1 eps
Bergerac
Lonny Rice · 1 eps
No Hiding Place
1 eps
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Bedlam Keeper · 1 eps
The Protectors
Conway · 1 eps
Dempsey and Makepeace
Sid Lowe · 1 eps
Sharpe
Hopkinson · 1 eps
The Upper Hand
Store Manager · 1 eps
The Expert
Professor Kirk · 1 eps
New Scotland Yard
Marty Lewis · 1 eps
Softly, Softly
1 eps
Hammer House of Horror
A.J. Powers · 1 eps
Shoestring
Porter · 1 eps
Born and Bred
Ernest Gilles · 1 eps
War and Remembrance
Adolf Eichmann · 1 eps
Poldark
Matthew Sanson · 3 eps
Centre Play
The Servant · 1 eps
The Good Life
Ernie · 1 eps
The Adventurer
Alex · 1 eps
Budgie
Nervous Docherty · 1 eps
Dickens of London
Samuel Starey · 1 eps
The Basil Brush Show
Mr. Rossiter · 3 eps
The Basil Brush Show
Mr Rossiter · 4 eps
Manhunt
Renard · 1 eps
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Fisher · 6 eps
Campion
William Potter · 2 eps
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Mr Meikeljohn · 1 eps
Super Gran
Mr. L. Chop · 1 eps
Oppenheimer
George Kistiakowsky · 2 eps
Will Shakespeare
Dr Alcibiades · 1 eps
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
George Lintz · 2 eps
Butterflies
2 eps
Armchair Thriller
Tim Kennaway · 3 eps
Mussolini: The Untold Story
German Ambassador · 4 eps
Going Straight
Mr. Kirby · 1 eps
Spearhead
Mr Adams · 5 eps
The Misfit
Evans · 1 eps
The Three Musketeers
Grimaud · 6 eps
The Jensen Code
Mr Richards · 11 eps
A Horseman Riding By
Reverend Horsey · 5 eps
The Intruder
Sonny · 8 eps
Sense and Sensibility
John Dashwood · 2 eps
Wuffer
Mr. Wilberforce · 5 eps