Cast & creator

Milton Johns

1938-05-13 (age 88) Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UKIMDb

Best known for Doctor Who, Doctor Who, American Playhouse

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.

Also known as: John Robert Milton

Movies

film credits

Series

television credits

Career

1959–2008 · acting roles

Credit score

7.1

average across scored titles

Signature credits

Known for

Ordered by popularity

★ 7.9

Doctor Who

Guy Crayford · 1963

★ 7.9

Doctor Who

Kelner · 1963

★ 6.6

American Playhouse

George Kistiakowsky · 1982

★ 6.6

Play for Today

Evelyn de Plume · 1970

★ 5.2

The Wednesday Play

March · 1964

Across film & television

Filmography (83)

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Milton Johns

Known for

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

American Playhouse

Play for Today

The Wednesday Play

Filmography (83)

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

American Playhouse

Play for Today

The Wednesday Play

The Wednesday Play

Crown Court

Minder

The Saint

Sharpe

ITV Playhouse

Z-Cars

Bergerac

No Hiding Place

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

New Scotland Yard

The Expert

The Upper Hand

Centre Play

The Empire Strikes Back

The Protectors

Shoestring

Dempsey and Makepeace

Softly, Softly

War and Remembrance

Budgie

Poldark

The Adventurer

Born and Bred

Campion

Hammer House of Horror

Butterflies

The X-Files

Manhunt

The Good Life

Orlando

The Basil Brush Show

The Basil Brush Show

Super Gran

The Misfit

Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle

Oppenheimer

Dickens of London

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

Mussolini: The Untold Story

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Going Straight

Joseph

Spearhead

The Three Musketeers

Trapped

Will Shakespeare

Born and Bred

A Horseman Riding By

Armchair Thriller

The Jensen Code

Ellington

Sense and Sensibility

The Intruder

Badger

Hell's Bells

The Ties That Bind Us

Foxy Lady

Sharpe's Revenge

The Poisoning of Charles Bravo

Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World

Precious Bane

Baffled!

Murphy's Mob

Roy's Raiders

Doctor Who: The Android Invasion

The Missing Postman