Acting
Milton Johns
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.
Filmography
The Ties That Bind Us
Film · 2008
Making a Killing
Film · 2002
The Basil Brush Show
Series · 2002
Born and Bred
Series · 2002
The Basil Brush Show
Series · 2002
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Series · 1999
Badger
Series · 1999
The X-Files
Film · 1998
The Missing Postman
Film · 1997
Sharpe's Revenge
Film · 1997
Ellington
Series · 1996
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Series · 1996
Joseph
Film · 1995
Stanley's Dragon
Film · 1994
Sharpe
Series · 1993
Roy's Raiders
Series · 1991
The Upper Hand
Series · 1990
Precious Bane
Film · 1989
Campion
Series · 1989
War and Remembrance
Series · 1988
Hell's Bells
Series · 1986
Dempsey and Makepeace
Series · 1985
Super Gran
Series · 1985
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Series · 1985
Wuffer
Series · 1983
Tishoo
Film · 1982
Foxy Lady
Series · 1982
American Playhouse
Series · 1982
Murphy's Mob
Series · 1982
Bread or Blood
Film · 1981
Bergerac
Series · 1981
The Empire Strikes Back
Film · 1980
Hammer House of Horror
Series · 1980
Oppenheimer
Series · 1980
Minder
Series · 1979
Shoestring
Series · 1979
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
Film · 1978
The Limbo Connection
Film · 1978
Going Straight
Series · 1978
Butterflies
Series · 1978
Armchair Thriller
Series · 1978
Born and Bred
Series · 1978
Spearhead
Series · 1978
A Horseman Riding By
Series · 1978
Will Shakespeare
Series · 1978
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
Series · 1977
Dickens of London
Series · 1976
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
Film · 1975
The Imp of the Perverse
Film · 1975
The Good Life
Series · 1975
Poldark
Series · 1975
The Poisoning of Charles Bravo
Series · 1975
South Riding
Film · 1974
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
Film · 1974
Baffled!
Film · 1973
Centre Play
Series · 1973
The Jensen Code
Series · 1973
The Protectors
Series · 1972
The Adventurer
Series · 1972
Crown Court
Series · 1972
The Intruder
Series · 1972
New Scotland Yard
Series · 1972
Budgie
Series · 1971
Sense and Sensibility
Series · 1971
Manhunt
Series · 1970
Play for Today
Series · 1970
The Misfit
Series · 1970
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Series · 1969
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
Film · 1968
The Expert
Series · 1968
ITV Playhouse
Series · 1967
Trapped
Series · 1967
Softly, Softly
Series · 1966
The Three Musketeers
Series · 1966
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
Film · 1965
Orlando
Series · 1965
The Wednesday Play
Series · 1964
The Wednesday Play
Series · 1964
Doctor Who
Series · 1963
Doctor Who
Series · 1963
Z-Cars
Series · 1962
The Saint
Series · 1962
No Hiding Place
Series · 1959