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.
Known For
Credits
- 2002 · Basil Brush Show as The Caretaker
- 2002 · Basil Brush Show as Mr. Rossiter
- 2002 · Born and Bred as
- 1999 · Badger as
- 1999 · The Scarlet Pimpernel as Fisher
- 1998 · The X Files as British Valet
- 1997 · The Missing Postman as Len Denbigh
- 1995 · Joseph as Mundschenk
- 1994 · Stanley's Dragon as Mr. Batley
- 1990 · The Upper Hand as Store Manager
- 1989 · Campion as William Potter
- 1988 · War and Remembrance as
- 1986 · Hell's Bells as
- 1985 · Super Gran as Mr. L. Chop
- 1985 · Dempsey and Makepeace as Sid Lowe
- 1985 · The Pickwick Papers as Mr. Perker
- 1982 · Foxy Lady as
- 1982 · Tishoo as Cullin
- 1981 · Bergerac as Lonny Rice
- 1981 · Bread or Blood as Harbutt
- 1980 · Oppenheimer as George Kistiakowsky
- 1980 · Hammer House of Horror as A.J. Powers
- 1980 · The Empire Strikes Back as Bewil
- 1979 · Minder as Mr. Sinclair
- 1979 · Shoestring as
- 1978 · Butterflies as
- 1978 · Life of Shakespeare as Dr. Alcibiades
- 1978 · Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time as Castellan Kelner
- 1978 · Going Straight as
- 1975 · The Imp of the Perverse as The Servant
- 1975 · Doctor Who: The Android Invasion as Guy Crayford
- 1975 · Poldark as Matthew Sanson
- 1975 · The Good Life as Ernie
- 1974 · South Riding as
- 1974 · Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove? as Evelyn de Plume
- 1973 · Baffled! as Dr. Reed
- 1973 · The Jensen Code as Mr. Richards
- 1973 · Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em as
- 1972 · Crown Court as Gus Enderby
- 1972 · The Protectors as Conway
- 1972 · The Adventurer as Alex
- 1971 · Budgie as
- 1970 · Play for Today as Evelyn de Plume
- 1970 · Manhunt as Renard
- 1969 · The First Churchills as
- 1968 · The Expert as Professor Kirk
- 1968 · Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World as Benik
- 1966 · The Three Musketeers as
- 1966 · Softly, Softly as
- 1965 · The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne as March
- 1963 · Doctor Who as Guy Crayford
- 1963 · Doctor Who as Kelner
- 1962 · The Saint as Vargas
- 1962 · Z-Cars as
- 1959 · No Hiding Place as