Noel Johnson

Actor Dec 28 (died age 82) West Bromwich, West Midlands, England, UK 1950–2023 (73 year career)

6.2 avg rating

Biography

With the Royal Army Service Corps during World War II. Evacuated from Dunkirk. After a year in hospital, invalided out in 1941. Worked for the BBC Drama Repertory Company from 1945. Until 1949, was best known as the voice of special agent Dick Barton on radio.

Known For

Film

For Your Eyes Only

Vice Admiral

Film

Frenzy

Doctor in Pub

Film

Withnail & I

General

Film

The First Great Train Robbery

Connaught

Film

Defence of the Realm

Club Member

Film

Royal Flash

Lord Chamberlain

Film

Harry's Game

Gen. Sir Jocelyn Fairbairn

Film

Doctor Who

King Thous

Filmography

Acting (72)

Movies (30)

Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

2023

as King Thous (voice)

1.0

Influenced

2018

as Kidnapper

The Vacillations of Poppy Carew

as Patient 1

Withnail & I

as General

Defence of the Realm

as Club Member

Theban Plays: Antigone

1986

as Chorus

The Comedy of Errors

as First Merchant

For Your Eyes Only

as Vice Admiral

Julius Caesar

as Publius

The First Great Train Robbery

as Connaught

Royal Flash

as Lord Chamberlain

The Swordsman

as Christian Duval

Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

1974

as Sir Charles Grover

Frenzy

as Doctor in Pub

The Snow Goose

as Naval Captain

Michael Regan

as Asst. Chief Constable

Mrs Davenport

1970

as Mr Davenport

The Interview

1968

Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

1967

as King Thous

5.0

Way Off Beat

1966

as Master of Ceremonies

Concorde

1966

as Commentator

9.0

A Tap on the Shoulder

1965

as Chief Constable

Thirteen to Centaurus

as Gen. Short

The Partner

as Charles Briars

The Cruel Necessity

as Sir Thomas Herbert

A Call on Kuprin: Part 1

1961

as Lowther

Appointment with Venus

1951

as Clark - R.N.

5.1

Calling Bulldog Drummond

1951

as Detective (uncredited)

5.8

The Case of the Missing Scene

1951

as Crawford

Highly Dangerous

1950

as Frank Conway (uncredited)

6.0

Television (42)

A Touch of Frost

Wyatt's Watchdogs

as Hadley

Inspector Morse

as Butler

Dalgliesh

as Major Hunt

Reilly: Ace of Spies

as Sir Edward Grey

Harry's Game

as Gen. Sir Jocelyn Fairbairn

6.5

Harry's Game

1982

as General Sir Jocelyn Fairbairn

6.5

Lady Killers

1980

as Sir Thomas Inskip, K.C.

Buccaneer

as Admiral Harkness

Malice Aforethought

as Mr Pimm

Enemy at the Door

as Committee President

7.8

Rumpole of the Bailey

as Judge Sam Parkin

Poldark

as Captain Gower

Oil Strike North

Churchill's People

as Chief Justice Popham

Warship

Colditz

as Devenish

Justice

as Lord Chancellor

Play for Today

Doomwatch

as Priestland

Codename

as Melton

Counterstrike

The Expert

as Dr. Worseley

David Copperfield

as Wickfield

Thirteen Against Fate

1966

as Superintendant Godot

Bat Out of Hell

Out of the Unknown

as Gen. Short

The Wednesday Play

as Chief Constable

Theatre 625

as Sir Gregory Broome

7.2

Doctor Who

1963

as King Thous

7.9

The Spread of the Eagle

1963

as Cominius

Z-Cars

1962

7.0

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

1962

6.0

The Andromeda Breakthrough

as Osborne

A for Andromeda

as J.M. Osborne

A for Andromeda

as J.M. Osborne

Sunday-Night Play

as Lowther

Maigret

An Age of Kings

as Duke of Norfolk

No Hiding Place

Ivanhoe

as Sir Romer

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Naval Captain

8.6