Milton Johns
Acting
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.
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
as Benik
Age 29 (now 88)
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
as Castellan Kelner
Age 39 (now 88)
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
as Guy Crayford
Age 37 (now 88)
Mussolini: The Untold Story
as German Ambassador
Age 47 (now 88)
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
as Castellan Kelner
Age 39 (now 88) Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
as Guy Crayford
Age 37 (now 88)
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
as Benik
Age 29 (now 88)
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
as March
Age 27 (now 88)
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as Mr Meikeljohn
Age 58 (now 88)
Mussolini: The Untold Story
as German Ambassador
Age 47 (now 88)
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
as George Lintz
Age 38 (now 88)
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
as Bedlam Keeper
Age 30 (now 88)
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Also Known As
John Robert Milton
IMDB
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