Karl Johnson
Acting • Born 1948-03-01
Biography
Karl Johnson is a Welsh actor, appearing on stage, film and television. His most notable role to date is the title role in Derek Jarman's 1993 film Wittgenstein and those of Cato the Younger in the television drama series Rome and of Twister Turrill in the BBC costume drama Lark Rise to Candleford.
Filmography
93 credits
The Illusionist
Movie • 2006
Doctor / Old Man
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Movie • 1998
John Deakin
I Know You Know
Movie • 2009
Ernie
Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes
Movie • 2006
Norman Douglas
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
Movie • 2021
Richard Jenkins
Sons and Lovers
Movie • 1981
Paul Morel
Jubilee
Movie • 1978
Sphinx
The Shawl
Movie • 1989
Charles
The Deep Blue Sea
Movie • 2011
Mr. Miller
Close My Eyes
Movie • 1991
Colin
Wittgenstein
Movie • 1993
Ludwig Wittgenstein
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
Movie • 2011
De Lacey
The Pier
Movie • 2011
Larry McCarthy
Saint-Ex
Movie • 1996
Didier Daurat
The Tempest
Movie • 1979
Ariel, an airy spirit
Under Milk Wood
Movie • 2014
Drowned / Voice
Dog Altogether
Movie • 2007
Jack
Four Last Songs
Movie • 2007
Erico
Mr. Turner
Movie • 2014
Mr. Booth
National Theatre Live: The Crucible
Movie • 2023
England Expects
Movie • 2004
Third Star
Movie • 2010
Ticket Seller
The Gospel According to St Derek
Movie • 2014
Self
The Black and Blue Lamp
Movie • 1988
PC "Taffy" Hughes
Cold Harbour
Movie • 1978
Geoff
Tomorrow La Scala!
Movie • 2002
Sydney
Hot Fuzz
Movie • 2007
PC Bob Walker
The Carer
Movie • 2016
Joseph
A Prayer for the Dying
Movie • 1987
Fitzgerald
Is Anybody There?
Movie • 2009
Arthur (uncredited)
Prick Up Your Ears
Movie • 1987
Douglas Orton
Frozen
Movie • 2005
Coastguard Bill
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Movie • 2015
Ghost / Gravedigger
Let Him Have It
Movie • 1991
Parris
Pure
Movie • 2002
Granddad
The Sea
Movie • 2013
Blunden
Good Vibrations
Movie • 2012
George Hooley
Kaleidoscope
Movie • 2017
John
The Death of Stalin
Movie • 2017
Dr. Lukomsky
King Lear
Movie • 2018
Fool
Peterloo
Movie • 2018
Lord Sidmouth, the Home Secretary
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
Movie • 2016
When I'm Sixty-Four
Movie • 2004
Billy
The Magic Shop
Movie • 1982
Winter Thaw
Movie • 2016
Stepanovich
Dream Horse
Movie • 2021
Kerby
Heidi
Movie • 2005
Old Man
Copying Beethoven
Movie • 2006
Stefan Holtz
The Edge of Love
Movie • 2008
Dai Fred
Mr Invisible
Movie • 2013
The Handler
Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
Movie • 2020
Nagg
The Last Vermeer
Movie • 2019
Bernard Bakker
Mother
Movie • 2016
Old Man in Café
77 Beds
Movie • 2003
Spiritual Father
Chips with Everything
Movie • 1975
Wilfe Seaford
Ladies and Gentlemen
Movie
Uncle Philip
The Chatterley Affair
Movie • 2006
Mr. Justice Byrne
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Derek Lockwood
The Bill
TV • 1984
Atlantis
TV • 2013
Itheus
Lark Rise to Candleford
TV • 2008
Twister Turrill
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Saunders
New Tricks
TV • 2004
What's Your Problem?
TV • 2002
The Mysteries
TV • 1985
Jesus / Abel
Mum
TV • 2016
Reg
Rules of Engagement
TV • 1989
Dave Gillespie
Rainbow
TV • 1972
Himself (singer)
The Sooty Show
TV • 1955
Himself
Born to Kill
TV • 2017
Mr. Williams
Wolf
TV • 2023
Colonel Frink
The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies
TV • 2023
Bill
Suspicion
TV • 2022
Eric Cresswell
Halo
TV • 2022
Hierarch Truth (voice)
Bergerac
TV • 1981
Henry Morant
Night Court
TV • 1984
Dave Costanza
Too Close
TV • 2021
James de Cadenet
The Play on One
TV • 1988
Charles
Merlin
TV • 2008
Taliesin
Lovesick
TV • 2014
Richard
Sons and Lovers
TV • 1981
Paul Morel
David Copperfield
TV • 1999
Tungay
Call the Midwife
TV • 2012
Mr. Masterson
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
TV • 2006
Marcellus
It's Kevin
TV • 2013
Various
Truelove
TV • 2024
Tom
Dalziel & Pascoe
TV • 1996
Stevie Earle
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Wilf Seaford
Born and Bred
TV • 2002
Alec Rossendale
A Tale of Two Cities
TV • 1989
Solomon Pross/'John Barsad'
The Lifeboat
TV • 1994
Hughie Jones
Shoestring
TV • 1979
Dennis Philips
Vanity Fair
TV • 1998
Major Loder