Acting
Karl Johnson
Acting · Born 1948-03-01 · Wales, UK
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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Truelove
2024 · Tom
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
2023 · Bill
Wolf
2023 · Colonel Frink
FilmNational Theatre Live: The Crucible
2023
Halo
2022 · Hierarch Truth (voice)
Suspicion
2022 · Eric Cresswell
FilmDream Horse
2021 · Kerby
Too Close
2021 · James de Cadenet
FilmThe Last Vermeer
2019 · Bernard Bakker
FilmPeterloo
2018 · Lord Sidmouth, the Home Secretary
FilmKing Lear
2018 · Fool
FilmKaleidoscope
2017 · John
FilmThe Death of Stalin
2017 · Dr. Lukomsky
Born to Kill
2017 · Mr. Williams
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
FilmAberfan: The Green Hollow
2016
FilmThe Carer
2016 · Joseph
Mum
2016 · Reg
FilmNational Theatre Live: Hamlet
2015 · Ghost / Gravedigger
FilmMr. Turner
2014 · Mr. Booth
Lovesick
2014 · Richard
FilmUnder Milk Wood
2014 · Drowned / Voice
Mr Invisible
FilmMr Invisible
2013 · The Handler
Atlantis
2013 · Itheus
FilmThe Sea
2013 · Blunden
It's Kevin
2013 · Various
FilmGood Vibrations
2012 · George Hooley
Call the Midwife
2012 · Mr. Masterson
FilmThe Deep Blue Sea
2011 · Mr. Miller
FilmNational Theatre Live: Frankenstein
2011 · De Lacey
FilmThird Star
2010 · Ticket Seller
FilmIs Anybody There?
2009 · Arthur (uncredited)
FilmI Know You Know
2009 · Ernie
Merlin
2008 · Taliesin
FilmThe Edge of Love
2008 · Dai Fred
Lark Rise to Candleford
2008 · Twister Turrill
FilmDog Altogether
2007 · Jack
FilmHot Fuzz
2007 · PC Bob Walker
FilmThe Trial of Tony Blair
2007 · Father Lunt
FilmFour Last Songs
2007 · Erico
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006 · Marcellus
FilmCopying Beethoven
2006 · Stefan Holtz
FilmThe Illusionist
2006 · Doctor / Old Man
FilmThe Chatterley Affair
2006 · Mr. Justice Byrne
FilmElizabeth David: A Life in Recipes
2006 · Norman Douglas
FilmHeidi
2005 · Old Man
FilmFrozen
2005 · Coastguard Bill
FilmWhen I'm Sixty-Four
2004 · Billy
England Expects
FilmEngland Expects
2004
New Tricks
2004
Film77 Beds
2003 · Spiritual Father
FilmTomorrow La Scala!
2002 · Sydney
What's Your Problem?
What's Your Problem?
2002
FilmPure
2002 · Granddad
Born and Bred
2002 · Alec Rossendale
FilmContagion
2002 · Ferrin
David Copperfield
1999 · Tungay
Vanity Fair
1998 · Major Loder
FilmLove Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998 · John Deakin
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Derek Lockwood
FilmSaint-Ex
1996 · Didier Daurat
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · Steve Earle
An Independent Man
An Independent Man
1995 · Bill Rutherford
The Lifeboat
1994 · Hughie Jones
FilmWittgenstein
1993 · Ludwig Wittgenstein
FilmClose My Eyes
1991 · Colin
FilmLet Him Have It
1991 · Parris
Rules of Engagement
1989 · Dave Gillespie
A Tale of Two Cities
1989 · Solomon Pross/'John Barsad'
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Saunders
The Play on One
1988 · Charles
FilmA Prayer for the Dying
1987 · Fitzgerald
FilmPrick Up Your Ears
1987 · Douglas Orton
ScreenPlay
1986 · P.C. Taffy Hughes
The Mysteries
1985 · Jesus / Abel
The Bill
1984
Night Court
1984 · Dave Costanza
FilmThe Magic Shop
1982
Bergerac
1981 · Henry Morant
Sons and Lovers
1981 · Paul Morel
Shoestring
1979 · Dennis Philips
FilmThe Tempest
1979 · Ariel, an airy spirit
The Other Side
The Other Side
1979 · Colin
FilmJubilee
1978 · Sphinx
FilmChips with Everything
1975 · Wilfe Seaford
Rainbow
1972 · Himself (singer)
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Wilf Seaford
The Sooty Show
1955 · Himself