Known For
Acting
Born
May 13, 1938
Place of Birth
Bristol - Gloucestershire - England - UK
Credits
79 titles
Milton Johns
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Ties That Bind Us
Kelner (archive footage)
The Basil Brush Show
Mr. Rossiter
Born and Bred
Ernest Gilles
Making a Killing
L.T. Harvey
Badger
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Fisher
The X-Files
British Valet
Sharpe's Revenge
Hopkinson
The Missing Postman
Len Denbigh
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Mr Meikeljohn
Ellington
Announcer
Joseph
Vintner
Stanley's Dragon
Mr Batley
Sharpe
Hopkinson
The Upper Hand
Store Manager
Campion
William Potter
Precious Bane
Grimble
War and Remembrance
Adolf Eichmann
Hell's Bells
Wilfred Hankey
Mussolini: The Untold Story
German Ambassador
Super Gran
Mr. L. Chop
Dempsey and Makepeace
Sid Lowe
Foxy Lady
Tishoo
Cullin
Murphy's Mob
Derek Cassidy
American Playhouse
George Kistiakowsky
Bergerac
Lonny Rice
Bread or Blood
Harbutt
Oppenheimer
George Kistiakowsky
Hammer House of Horror
A.J. Powers
The Empire Strikes Back
Bewil
Minder
Mr. Sinclair
Shoestring
Porter
Butterflies
A Horseman Riding By
Reverend Horsey
Born and Bred
Freddie Peglar
Spearhead
Mr Adams
Life of Shakespeare
Dr. Alcibiades
Will Shakespeare
Dr Alcibiades
The Limbo Connection
Tim Kennaway
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
Castellan Kelner
Going Straight
Mr. Kirby
Armchair Thriller
Tim Kennaway
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
George Lintz
Dickens of London
Samuel Starey
The Imp of the Perverse
The Servant
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
Guy Crayford
Poldark
Matthew Sanson
The Poisoning of Charles Bravo
Griffiths
The Good Life
Ernie