Acting · Bristol - Gloucestershire - England - UK · Born May 13, 1938
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.
MovieThe Ties That Bind Us
2008
as Kelner (archive footage)
TVThe Basil Brush Show
2002
as Mr. Rossiter
TVBorn and Bred
2002
as Ernest Gilles
MovieMaking a Killing
2002
as L.T. Harvey
Badger
1999
TVThe Scarlet Pimpernel
1999
as Fisher
MovieThe X-Files
1998
as British Valet
MovieSharpe's Revenge
1997
as Hopkinson
MovieThe Missing Postman
1997
as Len Denbigh
TVThe Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996
as Mr Meikeljohn
Ellington
1996
as Announcer
MovieJoseph
1995
as Vintner
MovieStanley's Dragon
1994
as Mr Batley
TVSharpe
1993
as Hopkinson
TVThe Upper Hand
1990
as Store Manager
TVCampion
1989
as William Potter
MoviePrecious Bane
1989
as Grimble
TVWar and Remembrance
1988
as Adolf Eichmann
Hell's Bells
1986
as Wilfred Hankey
TVMussolini: The Untold Story
1985
as German Ambassador
TVSuper Gran
1985
as Mr. L. Chop
TVDempsey and Makepeace
1985
as Sid Lowe
Foxy Lady
1982
MovieTishoo
1982
as Cullin
Murphy's Mob
1982
as Derek Cassidy
TVAmerican Playhouse
1982
as George Kistiakowsky
TVBergerac
1981
as Lonny Rice
MovieBread or Blood
1981
as Harbutt
TVOppenheimer
1980
as George Kistiakowsky
TVHammer House of Horror
1980
as A.J. Powers
MovieThe Empire Strikes Back
1980
as Bewil
TVMinder
1979
as Mr. Sinclair
TVShoestring
1979
as Porter
TVButterflies
1978
TVA Horseman Riding By
1978
as Reverend Horsey
Born and Bred
1978
as Freddie Peglar
TVSpearhead
1978
as Mr Adams
TVLife of Shakespeare
1978
as Dr. Alcibiades
TVWill Shakespeare
1978
as Dr Alcibiades
The Limbo Connection
1978
as Tim Kennaway
MovieDoctor Who: The Invasion of Time
1978
as Castellan Kelner
TVGoing Straight
1978
as Mr. Kirby
TVArmchair Thriller
1978
as Tim Kennaway
TVMurder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
1977
as George Lintz
TVDickens of London
1976
as Samuel Starey
The Imp of the Perverse
1975
as The Servant
MovieDoctor Who: The Android Invasion
1975
as Guy Crayford
TVPoldark
1975
as Matthew Sanson
The Poisoning of Charles Bravo
1975
as Griffiths
TVThe Good Life
1975
as Ernie
MovieSouth Riding
1974
MoviePidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
1974
as Evelyn de Plume
TVCentre Play
1973
as The Servant
MovieBaffled!
1973
as Dr. Reed
TVThe Jensen Code
1973
as Mr Richards
TVCrown Court
1972
as Gus Enderby
TVThe Protectors
1972
as Conway
TVThe Adventurer
1972
as Alex
TVNew Scotland Yard
1972
as Marty Lewis
TVThe Intruder
1972
as Sonny
TVBudgie
1971
as Nervous Docherty
TVSense and Sensibility
1971
as John Dashwood
TVPlay for Today
1970
as Evelyn de Plume
TVThe Misfit
1970
as Evans
TVManhunt
1970
as Renard
TVITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Bedlam Keeper
TVThe Expert
1968
as Professor Kirk
MovieDoctor Who: The Enemy of the World
1968
as Benik
TVITV Playhouse
1967
as Dennis Watson
Trapped
1967
as Linwood
TVThe Three Musketeers
1966
as Grimaud
TVSoftly, Softly
1966
MovieThe Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
1965
as March
Orlando
1965
as Darlington
TVThe Wednesday Play
1964
as March
TVDoctor Who
1963
as Guy Crayford
TVThe Saint
1962
as Vargas
TVZ-Cars
1962
TVNo Hiding Place
1959
