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Milton Johns
Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
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…
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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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2008
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie Kelner (archive footage)
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2002
The Basil Brush Show
TV show Mr. Rossiter
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2002
Born and Bred
TV show Ernest Gilles
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2002
Making a Killing
Movie L.T. Harvey
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1999
Badger
TV show
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1999
The Scarlet Pimpernel
TV show Fisher
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1998
The X-Files
Movie British Valet
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1997
Sharpe's Revenge
Movie Hopkinson
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1997
The Missing Postman
Movie Len Denbigh
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1996
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
TV show Mr Meikeljohn
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1996
Ellington
TV show Announcer
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1995
Joseph
Movie Vintner
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1994
Stanley's Dragon
Movie Mr Batley
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1993
Sharpe
TV show Hopkinson
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1991
Roy's Raiders
TV show Winco
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1990
The Upper Hand
TV show Store Manager
More credits
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1989
Campion
TV show William Potter
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1989
Precious Bane
Movie Grimble
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1988
War and Remembrance
TV show Adolf Eichmann
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1986
Hell's Bells
TV show Wilfred Hankey
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1985
Mussolini: The Untold Story
TV show German Ambassador
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1985
Super Gran
TV show Mr. L. Chop
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1985
Dempsey and Makepeace
TV show Sid Lowe
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1983
Wuffer
TV show Mr. Wilberforce
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1982
Foxy Lady
TV show
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1982
Tishoo
Movie Cullin
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1982
Murphy's Mob
TV show Derek Cassidy
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1982
American Playhouse
TV show George Kistiakowsky
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1981
Bergerac
TV show Lonny Rice
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1981
Bread or Blood
Movie Harbutt
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1980
Oppenheimer
TV show George Kistiakowsky
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1980
Hammer House of Horror
TV show A.J. Powers
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1980
The Empire Strikes Back
Movie Bewil
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1979
Minder
TV show Mr. Sinclair
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1979
Shoestring
TV show Porter
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1978
Butterflies
TV show
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1978
A Horseman Riding By
TV show Reverend Horsey
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1978
Born and Bred
TV show Freddie Peglar
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1978
Spearhead
TV show Mr Adams
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1978
Will Shakespeare
TV show Dr Alcibiades
