Karl Johnson

Actor Mar 1 (age 78) Wales, UK 1955–2024 (69 year career)

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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.

Known For

Film

Hot Fuzz

PC Bob Walker

Film

The Illusionist

Doctor / Old Man

Film

Rome

8.2 2005

Film

The Death of Stalin

Dr. Lukomsky

Film

Mr. Turner

Mr. Booth

Film

Heidi

Old Man

Film

The Edge of Love

Dai Fred

Film

Third Star

Ticket Seller

Filmography

Acting (94)

Movies (57)

National Theatre Live: The Crucible

Dream Horse

as Kerby

National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood

2021

as Richard Jenkins

Endgame & Rough for Theatre II

2020

as Nagg

The Last Vermeer

2019

as Bernard Bakker

6.5

Peterloo

2018

as Lord Sidmouth, the Home Secretary

King Lear

as Fool

The Death of Stalin

as Dr. Lukomsky

Kaleidoscope

as John

Mother

as Old Man in Café

The Carer

2016

as Joseph

6.6

Winter Thaw

2016

as Stepanovich

Aberfan: The Green Hollow

2016

6.3

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

2015

as Ghost / Gravedigger

Mr. Turner

as Mr. Booth

Under Milk Wood

as Drowned / Voice

The Gospel According to St Derek

2014

as Self

The Sea

as Blunden

Mr Invisible

as The Handler

Good Vibrations

as George Hooley

The Deep Blue Sea

as Mr. Miller

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

2011

as De Lacey

7.8

The Pier

2011

as Larry McCarthy

Third Star

2010

as Ticket Seller

7.0

Is Anybody There?

2009

as Arthur (uncredited)

I Know You Know

as Ernie

The Edge of Love

as Dai Fred

Hot Fuzz

as PC Bob Walker

Four Last Songs

as Erico

Dog Altogether

as Jack

Copying Beethoven

as Stefan Holtz

The Chatterley Affair

as Mr. Justice Byrne

The Illusionist

as Doctor / Old Man

Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes

as Norman Douglas

Heidi

as Old Man

Frozen

as Coastguard Bill

England Expects

When I'm Sixty-Four

as Billy

77 Beds

as Spiritual Father

Tomorrow La Scala!

as Sydney

Pure

as Granddad

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

as John Deakin

Saint-Ex

as Didier Daurat

Wittgenstein

as Ludwig Wittgenstein

Close My Eyes

as Colin

Let Him Have It

as Parris

The Shawl

as Charles

The Black and Blue Lamp

1988

as PC "Taffy" Hughes

A Prayer for the Dying

as Fitzgerald

Prick Up Your Ears

as Douglas Orton

The Magic Shop

Sons and Lovers

as Paul Morel

The Tempest

1979

as Ariel, an airy spirit

Jubilee

as Sphinx

Cold Harbour

as Geoff

Chips with Everything

1975

as Wilfe Seaford

Ladies and Gentlemen

as Uncle Philip

Television (37)

Truelove

as Tom

Wolf

as Colonel Frink

The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies

2023

as Bill

7.1

Halo

2022

as Hierarch Truth (voice)

Suspicion

as Eric Cresswell

Too Close

as James de Cadenet

Born to Kill

as Mr. Williams

Mum

as Reg

Lovesick

as Richard

Atlantis

as Itheus

It's Kevin

as Various

Call the Midwife

as Mr. Masterson

Merlin

as Taliesin

Lark Rise to Candleford

2008

as Twister Turrill

8.4

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

as Marcellus

Rome

New Tricks

Born and Bred

as Alec Rossendale

What's Your Problem?

David Copperfield

as Tungay

Vanity Fair

Midsomer Murders

as Derek Lockwood

Dalziel & Pascoe

as Stevie Earle

The Lifeboat

as Hughie Jones

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

as Saunders

8.2

A Tale of Two Cities

1989

as Solomon Pross/'John Barsad'

Rules of Engagement

as Dave Gillespie

The Play on One

as Charles

The Mysteries

as Jesus / Abel

Night Court

as Dave Costanza

The Bill

Bergerac

as Henry Morant

Sons and Lovers

as Paul Morel

Shoestring

Rainbow

as Himself (singer)

BBC Play of the Month

as Wilf Seaford

The Sooty Show

as Himself