Karl Johnson

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Known For

Acting

Born

1948-03-01

Place of Birth

Wales, UK
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Karl Johnson

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.

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Acting History

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