Milton Johns
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6959 |
| Birthday | 1938-05-13 |
| Place of Birth | Bristol - Gloucestershire - England - UK |
| Also Known As | John Robert Milton, |
1981
Bread or Blood
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Between April and May 1816, "Bread or Blood" riots erupted across East Anglia as the price of bread surpassed the wages of agricultural and industrial...
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Bread or Blood
1995
Joseph
8.213/223
Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. Rising to become prime minister of Egypt. Jo...
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Joseph
1975
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
7/3
The Doctor and Sarah return to Earth in the present day to find a strangely deserted village and woods stalked by white-clad figures.
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Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
1965
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
10/1
An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.
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The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
1997
The Missing Postman
5/1
When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak. But on his last day in the job, in a moment of unexpect...
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The Missing Postman
1980
The Empire Strikes Back
8.392/18322
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Dar...
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The Empire Strikes Back
1968
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
7.909/11
On Earth in 2018, the Doctor and his companions are enmeshed in a deadly web of intrigue thanks to his uncanny resemblance to the scientist/politician...
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Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
1975
The Imp of the Perverse
7/1
A student commits murder. He inherits his victim's estate. For a while, he is content, but finally his conscience starts to trouble him.
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The Imp of the Perverse
1974
South Riding
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An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel
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South Riding
1998
The X-Files
6.903/1790
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about...
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The X-Files
1978
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
6.2/5
The Doctor returns to Gallifrey, claims his rights and is inaugurated President. It soon turns out that he has led a group of aliens called Vardans to...
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Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
1973
Baffled!
5.609/23
Tom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a near-fatal crash while he's hurtling down the backstretch at 14...
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Baffled!
1994
Stanley's Dragon
5/2
Exploring a cavern, Stanley loses his friends but finds an old egg. He is excited when it hatches and a dragon comes out of it, but the authorities do...
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Stanley's Dragon
1974
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
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Wallace Pidgeon, a schoolteacher, has a School Sports Day that goes drastically wrong and finds himself torn between the contradictory demands of his...
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Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
1982
Tishoo
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It is the mid-1980s. The economy has not improved. For 17 years Professor Frank Merrick has been ensconced in a research lab of a provincial universit...
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Tishoo
2002
Making a Killing
7.5/2
During a steamy sexual liaison, Jake Summer's (Hywel Morgan) lover is murdered by a serial killer, leaving her husband Chad (Sean Gallagher) in big fi...
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Making a Killing
2008
The Ties That Bind Us
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A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story of The Five Doctors.
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The Ties That Bind Us
2025
Doctor Who: Gallifrey
0/0
Ian Levine's AI construction of an unproduced serial for season twenty-three of Doctor Who.
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Doctor Who: Gallifrey
1978
The Limbo Connection
9/1
Mark Omney is a struggling writer, and has a drink problem; his wife Clare is more successful as a journalist. After a dinner-party they host ends bad...
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The Limbo Connection
1989
Precious Bane
7.5/2
In the early 19th century, a young woman with a harelip falls foul of her family's ambition and the superstitions of the local community, but meets a...
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