Milton Johns
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Play for Today
Evelyn de Plume
1970
Series
Doctor Who
Guy Crayford
1963
Series
Doctor Who
Kelner
1963
Series
Minder
Mr. Sinclair
1979
Series
The Saint
Vargas
1962
Series
Crown Court
Gus Enderby
1972
Series
The Wednesday Play
March
1964
Series
The Wednesday Play
Hugh Shafton
1964
Series
Bergerac
Lonny Rice
1981
Film
The Empire Strikes Back
Bewil
1980
Series
ITV Playhouse
Dennis Watson
1967
Series
Z-Cars
1962
Series
American Playhouse
George Kistiakowsky
1982
Series
No Hiding Place
1959
Series
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Bedlam Keeper
1969
Series
Sharpe
Hopkinson
1993
Film
The X-Files
British Valet
1998
Series
Dempsey and Makepeace
Sid Lowe
1985
Series
The Protectors
Conway
1972
Series
War and Remembrance
Adolf Eichmann
1988
Series
The Upper Hand
Store Manager
1990
Series
Softly, Softly
1966
Series
The Expert
Professor Kirk
1968
Series
Poldark
Matthew Sanson
1975
Born and Bred
Freddie Peglar
1978
Series
New Scotland Yard
Marty Lewis
1972
Series
Shoestring
Porter
1979
Series
Dickens of London
Samuel Starey
1976
Series
Born and Bred
Ernest Gilles
2002
Series
Centre Play
The Servant
1973
Series
Hammer House of Horror
A.J. Powers
1980
Series
Budgie
Nervous Docherty
1971
Series
The Basil Brush Show
Mr. Rossiter
2002
Series
The Basil Brush Show
Mr Rossiter
2002
Series
The Adventurer
Alex
1972
Film
Joseph
Vintner
1995
Series
Manhunt
Renard
1970
Series
Campion
William Potter
1989
Series
The Good Life
Ernie
1975
Series
Oppenheimer
George Kistiakowsky
1980
Series
Super Gran
Mr. L. Chop
1985
Orlando
Darlington
1965
Series
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Fisher
1999
Series
A Horseman Riding By
Reverend Horsey
1978
Series
Spearhead
Mr Adams
1978
Series
The Misfit
Evans
1970
Series
Butterflies
1978
Series
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
George Lintz
1977
Series
Mussolini: The Untold Story
German Ambassador
1985
Series
Going Straight
Mr. Kirby
1978
Series
Will Shakespeare
Dr Alcibiades
1978
Series
The Three Musketeers
Grimaud
1966
Series
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Mr Meikeljohn
1996
Series
Armchair Thriller
Tim Kennaway
1978
Series
Sense and Sensibility
John Dashwood
1971
Series
The Jensen Code
Mr Richards
1973
Badger
1999
Ellington
Announcer
1996
Trapped
Linwood
1967
Film
Precious Bane
Grimble
1989
Series
The Intruder
Sonny
1972
Hell's Bells
Wilfred Hankey
1986
Film
Sharpe's Revenge
Hopkinson
1997
Film
The Ties That Bind Us
Kelner (archive footage)
2008
Foxy Lady
1982
Film
Baffled!
Dr. Reed
1973
Murphy's Mob
Derek Cassidy
1982
The Poisoning of Charles Bravo
Griffiths
1975
Film
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
Benik
1968
Film
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
Guy Crayford
1975
Film
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
March
1965
Film
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
Castellan Kelner
1978
The Limbo Connection
Tim Kennaway
1978
Film
South Riding
1974
Film
The Missing Postman
Len Denbigh
1997
Film
Stanley's Dragon
Mr Batley
1994
The Imp of the Perverse
The Servant
1975
Film
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
Evelyn de Plume
1974
Film
Tishoo
Cullin
1982
Film
Bread or Blood
Harbutt
1981
Film
Making a Killing
L.T. Harvey
2002