Milton Johns

Born: 1938-05-13

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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as Bewil
Released: 1980-05-20

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Joseph

as Mundschenk
Released: 1995-04-10

Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous...

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The X Files

as British Valet
Released: 1998-06-19

Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy...

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Baffled!

as Dr. Reed
Released: 1972-12-17

Tom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a...

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The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne

as March
Released: 1965-11-10

An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his...

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Bread or Blood

as Harbutt
Released: 1981-04-05

Between April and May 1816, "Bread or Blood" riots erupted across East Anglia as the price of...

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Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World

as Benik
Released: 1968-01-27

On Earth in 2018, the Doctor and his companions are enmeshed in a deadly web of intrigue thanks...

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The Missing Postman

as Len Denbigh
Released: 1997-03-28

When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak....

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The Pickwick Papers

as Mr. Perker
Released: 1985-01-06

The Pickwick Papers is a twelve-part BBC adaption of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens,...

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South Riding

as uncredited
Released: 1974-09-16

An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel

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Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time

as Castellan Kelner
Released: 1978-03-11

The Doctor returns to Gallifrey, claims his rights and is inaugurated President. It soon turns...

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Doctor Who: The Android Invasion

as Guy Crayford
Released: 1975-11-22

The Doctor and Sarah return to Earth in the present day to find a strangely deserted village and...

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Tishoo

as Cullin
Released: 1982-03-09

It is the mid-1980s. The economy has not improved. For 17 years Professor Frank Merrick has been...

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Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?

as Evelyn de Plume
Released: 1974-03-28

Wallace Pidgeon, a schoolteacher, has a School Sports Day that goes drastically wrong and finds...

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Stanley's Dragon

as Mr. Batley
Released: 1994-01-01

Stanley finds an egg in a cavern that soon hatches a dragon.

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Doctor Who

as Guy Crayford
First aired: 1963-11-23

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...

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Doctor Who

as Kelner
First aired: 1963-11-23

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...

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No Hiding Place

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-16

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by...

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Dempsey and Makepeace

as Sid Lowe
First aired: 1985-01-11

Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for...

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The Upper Hand

as Store Manager
First aired: 1990-05-01

The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and...

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Minder

as Mr. Sinclair
First aired: 1979-10-29

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...

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Hammer House of Horror

as A.J. Powers
First aired: 1980-09-13

Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror....

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The Good Life

as Ernie
First aired: 1975-04-04

Tom and Barbara Good escape the rat race and pursue a self-sufficient lifestyle in Surbiton,...

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Bergerac

as Lonny Rice
First aired: 1981-10-18

Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...

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The Saint

as Vargas
First aired: 1962-10-04

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...

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Crown Court

as Gus Enderby
First aired: 1972-10-11

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...

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Campion

as William Potter
First aired: 1989-01-22

Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written...

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Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

as uncredited
First aired: 1973-02-15

Meet Frank Spencer, an eager young man trying to find his way in the world. He's enthusiastic,...

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Born and Bred

as uncredited
First aired: 2002-04-21

Born and Bred is a light-hearted British drama series that aired on BBC One from 2002 to 2005....

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War and Remembrance

as uncredited
First aired: 1988-11-13

War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman...

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Softly, Softly

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-01-05

Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1...

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Manhunt

as Renard
First aired: 1970-01-02

Manhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend...

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The Protectors

as Conway
First aired: 1972-09-29

The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It...

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Shoestring

as uncredited
First aired: 1979-09-30

Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his...

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Basil Brush Show

as Mr. Rossiter
First aired: 2002-11-21

The Basil Brush Show was a British children's television sitcom series, starring the glove...

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Basil Brush Show

as The Caretaker
First aired: 2002-11-21

The Basil Brush Show was a British children's television sitcom series, starring the glove...

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The First Churchills

as uncredited
First aired: 1969-09-27

The lives of the Duke of Marlborough and his wife Sarah, from their meeting in 1673 to the...

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Z-Cars

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-01-02

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed...

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The Expert

as Professor Kirk
First aired: 1968-07-05

The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series...

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Poldark

as Matthew Sanson
First aired: 1975-10-05

Period drama series about the brooding rivalry between former soldier Ross Poldark and local...

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Super Gran

as Mr. L. Chop
First aired: 1985-01-20

Adapted from Forrest Wilson's books, the children's programme revolves around a grandmother with...

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The Adventurer

as Alex
First aired: 1972-09-29

The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran...

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The Jensen Code

as Mr. Richards
First aired: 1973-02-28

Sixteen-year-old Terry Connor is sent, along with a few of his friends, to an Outward Bound...

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The Three Musketeers

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-11-13

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

as Fisher
First aired: 1999-01-24

A series of television drama programmes loosely based on Baroness Emmuska Orczy's series of...

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Life of Shakespeare

as Dr. Alcibiades
First aired: 1978-06-13

Biography of William Shakespeare.

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Butterflies

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-11-10

Ria Parkinson is a bored housewife and mother. She spends her time daydreaming, and meets...

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Budgie

as uncredited
First aired: 1971-04-09

Budgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was...

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Oppenheimer

as George Kistiakowsky
First aired: 1980-10-29

This seven-part series highlights scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer from 1938 to 1953 as he...

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Going Straight

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-02-24

Going Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker...

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