Milton Johns
Known for Acting · 79 credits
- Born
- 1938-05-13 (age 88)
- Place of birth
- Bristol - Gloucestershire - England - UK
- Also known as
- John Robert Milton
Biography
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
TV Shows (59)
Crown Court
1972
as Gus Enderby
Play for Today
1970
as Evelyn de Plume
Doctor Who
1963
as Guy Crayford / Kelner
Z-Cars
1962
The Wednesday Play
1964
as March / Hugh Shafton
The Saint
1962
as Vargas
No Hiding Place
1959
Minder
1979
as Mr. Sinclair
American Playhouse
1982
as George Kistiakowsky
Bergerac
1981
as Lonny Rice
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Dennis Watson
The Upper Hand
1990
as Store Manager
Softly, Softly
1966
Centre Play
1973
as The Servant
The Expert
1968
as Professor Kirk
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985
as Sid Lowe
Sharpe
1993
as Hopkinson
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Bedlam Keeper
Shoestring
1979
as Porter
The Protectors
1972
as Conway
Hammer House of Horror
1980
as A.J. Powers
New Scotland Yard
1972
as Marty Lewis
War and Remembrance
1988
as Adolf Eichmann
Poldark
1975
as Matthew Sanson
Born and Bred
2002
as Ernest Gilles
Orlando
1965
as Darlington
The Adventurer
1972
as Alex
Budgie
1971
as Nervous Docherty
The Good Life
1975
as Ernie
Super Gran
1985
as Mr. L. Chop
Armchair Thriller
1978
as Tim Kennaway
Butterflies
1978
The Basil Brush Show
2002
as Mr. Rossiter / Mr Rossiter
Campion
1989
as William Potter
Manhunt
1970
as Renard
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
1977
as George Lintz
The Misfit
1970
as Evans
Dickens of London
1976
as Samuel Starey
Spearhead
1978
as Mr Adams
Badger
1999
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985
as German Ambassador
The Three Musketeers
1966
as Grimaud
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1999
as Fisher
Ellington
1996
as Announcer
Life of Shakespeare
1978
as Dr. Alcibiades
Oppenheimer
1980
as George Kistiakowsky
Born and Bred
1978
as Freddie Peglar
The Jensen Code
1973
as Mr Richards
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996
as Mr Meikeljohn
A Horseman Riding By
1978
as Reverend Horsey
Will Shakespeare
1978
as Dr Alcibiades
The Intruder
1972
as Sonny
Sense and Sensibility
1971
as John Dashwood
Going Straight
1978
as Mr. Kirby
Trapped
1967
as Linwood
Foxy Lady
1982
Hell's Bells
1986
as Wilfred Hankey
The Poisoning of Charles Bravo
1975
as Griffiths
Murphy's Mob
1982
as Derek Cassidy
Movies (20)
The Empire Strikes Back
1980
as Bewil
The X-Files
1998
as British Valet
Joseph
1995
as Vintner
Sharpe's Revenge
1997
as Hopkinson
Precious Bane
1989
as Grimble
The Ties That Bind Us
2008
as Kelner (archive footage)
The Limbo Connection
1978
as Tim Kennaway
Baffled!
1973
as Dr. Reed
The Missing Postman
1997
as Len Denbigh
The Imp of the Perverse
1975
as The Servant
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
1974
as Evelyn de Plume
Bread or Blood
1981
as Harbutt
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
1978
as Castellan Kelner
South Riding
1974
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
1968
as Benik
Stanley's Dragon
1994
as Mr Batley
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
1975
as Guy Crayford
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
1965
as March
Making a Killing
2002
as L.T. Harvey
Tishoo
1982
as Cullin
About 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, Mu… With 79 credits spanning from 1959 to 2008, Milton Johns has appeared in 20 films and 59 TV shows.
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- The Empire Strikes Back (1980) — as Bewil
- The X-Files (1998) — as British Valet
- Joseph (1995) — as Vintner
- Sharpe's Revenge (1997) — as Hopkinson
- Precious Bane (1989) — as Grimble
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