Milton Johns
Acting • Born 1938-05-13
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.
Filmography
73 credits
Bread or Blood
Movie • 1981
Harbutt
Joseph
Movie • 1995
Mundschenk
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
Movie • 1975
Guy Crayford
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
Movie • 1965
March
The Missing Postman
Movie • 1997
Len Denbigh
The Empire Strikes Back
Movie • 1980
Bewil
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
Movie • 1968
Benik
The Imp of the Perverse
Movie • 1975
The Servant
South Riding
Movie • 1974
The X-Files
Movie • 1998
British Valet
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
Movie • 1978
Castellan Kelner
Baffled!
Movie • 1973
Dr. Reed
Stanley's Dragon
Movie • 1994
Mr. Batley
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
Movie • 1974
Evelyn de Plume
Tishoo
Movie • 1982
Cullin
Making a Killing
Movie • 2002
L.T. Harvey
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie • 2008
Kelner (archive footage)
Doctor Who: Gallifrey
Movie • 2025
The Limbo Connection
Movie • 1978
Tim Kennaway
Precious Bane
Movie • 1989
Grimble
The Scarlet Pimpernel
TV • 1999
Fisher
Budgie
TV • 1971
Nervous Docherty
Bergerac
TV • 1981
Lonny Rice
Going Straight
TV • 1978
Mr. Kirby
Butterflies
TV • 1978
Softly, Softly
TV • 1966
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Guy Crayford
Z-Cars
TV • 1962
Dempsey and Makepeace
TV • 1985
Sid Lowe
The Good Life
TV • 1975
Ernie
Minder
TV • 1979
Mr. Sinclair
The Saint
TV • 1962
Vargas
The Protectors
TV • 1972
Conway
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
TV • 1973
Oppenheimer
TV • 1980
George Kistiakowsky
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
The Expert
TV • 1968
Professor Kirk
Badger
TV • 1999
Hell's Bells
TV • 1986
Wilfred Hankey
Life of Shakespeare
TV • 1978
Dr. Alcibiades
Hammer House of Horror
TV • 1980
A.J. Powers
Foxy Lady
TV • 1982
War and Remembrance
TV • 1988
The Adventurer
TV • 1972
Alex
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Kelner
Crown Court
TV • 1972
Gus Enderby
Campion
TV • 1989
William Potter
Super Gran
TV • 1985
Mr. L. Chop
The Basil Brush Show
TV • 2002
Mr. Rossiter
Manhunt
TV • 1970
Renard
The Upper Hand
TV • 1990
Store Manager
The Jensen Code
TV • 1973
Mr. Richards
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Evelyn de Plume
Armchair Thriller
TV • 1978
Tim Kennaway
Sharpe
TV • 1993
Hopkinson
Ellington
TV • 1996
Announcer
Dickens of London
TV • 1976
Samuel Starey
The Misfit
TV • 1970
Evans
Orlando
TV • 1965
Darlington
Born and Bred
TV • 1978
Freddie Peglar
Born and Bred
TV • 2002
Ernest Gilles
Sense and Sensibility
TV • 1971
John Dashwood
Mussolini: The Untold Story
TV • 1985
German Ambassador
The Three Musketeers
TV • 1966
Grimaud
Spearhead
TV • 1978
Mr Adams
The Intruder
TV • 1972
Sonny
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
TV • 1977
George Lintz
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
March
Poldark
TV • 1975
Matthew Sanson
A Horseman Riding By
TV • 1978
Reverend Horsey
Shoestring
TV • 1979
Porter
The Basil Brush Show
TV • 2002
Mr Rossiter
Centre Play
TV • 1973
The Servant