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Milton Johns

1938 (88) • 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.

Known For

Doctor Who

79%

Guy Crayford / Kelner

1963

The Saint

74%

Vargas

1962

Hammer House of Horror

71%

A.J. Powers

1980

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

76%

Unknown

1973

The Good Life

77%

Ernie

1975

War and Remembrance

79%

Unknown

1988

Sharpe

80%

Hopkinson

1993

Dempsey and Makepeace

68%

Sid Lowe

1985

The Ties That Bind Us

Kelner (archive footage)

2008

The Basil Brush Show

73%

Mr. Rossiter / The Caretaker

2002

Born and Bred

90%

Ernest Gilles

2002

Making a Killing

75%

L.T. Harvey

2002
Badger

Badger

Unknown

1999

The Scarlet Pimpernel

77%

Fisher

1999

The X-Files

69%

British Valet

1998

Sharpe's Revenge

72%

Hopkinson

1997

The Missing Postman

50%

Len Denbigh

1997

Ellington

80%

Announcer

1996

Joseph

82%

Vintner

1995

Stanley's Dragon

50%

Mr Batley

1994

Sharpe

80%

Hopkinson

1993

The Upper Hand

72%

Store Manager

1990

Campion

65%

William Potter

1989

Precious Bane

75%

Grimble

1989

War and Remembrance

79%

Unknown

1988

Hell's Bells

75%

Wilfred Hankey

1986

Mussolini: The Untold Story

53%

German Ambassador

1985

Super Gran

64%

Mr. L. Chop

1985

Dempsey and Makepeace

68%

Sid Lowe

1985
Foxy Lady

Foxy Lady

100%

Unknown

1982

Tishoo

Cullin

1982

Bergerac

70%

Lonny Rice

1981

Bread or Blood

Harbutt

1981

Oppenheimer

67%

George Kistiakowsky

1980

Hammer House of Horror

71%

A.J. Powers

1980

The Empire Strikes Back

84%

Bewil

1980

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