Milton Johns

Known for ActingBorn 1938-05-13 (age 88)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. 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.Read more

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Foxy Lady

Will Shakespeare

The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne

Born and Bred

The Limbo Connection

The Misfit

The Expert

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

The Empire Strikes Back

Joseph

Ellington

Sharpe

War and Remembrance

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Orlando

Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World

Doctor Who

Making a Killing

Going Straight

The Good Life

Precious Bane

Hell's Bells

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

The Basil Brush Show

Spearhead

The Intruder

Shoestring

Sharpe's Revenge

Softly, Softly

The Upper Hand

Dickens of London

The Saint

Butterflies

Z-Cars

Minder

The X-Files

Budgie

Hammer House of Horror

A Horseman Riding By

Doctor Who: The Android Invasion

The Imp of the Perverse

Centre Play

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

ITV Playhouse

Poldark

Oppenheimer

Bergerac

Manhunt