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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 13, 1938
Place of Birth
Bristol - Gloucestershire - England - UK
Also Known As
- John Robert Milton
Milton Johns
0.5 Popularity
Biography
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
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Doctor Who: Gallifrey
2025
0.0
Kelner (archive footage)
The Ties That Bind Us
2008
7.2
The Caretaker
The Basil Brush Show
2002
7.2
Mr. Rossiter
The Basil Brush Show
2002
8.5
Ernest Gilles
Born and Bred
2002
8.0
L.T. Harvey
Making a Killing
2002
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0.0
Badger
1999
7.2
Fisher
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1999
6.9
British Valet
The X-Files
1998
5.0
Len Denbigh
The Missing Postman
1997
Credits
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Doctor Who: Gallifrey
2025
0.0
The Ties That Bind Us
as Kelner (archive footage)
2008
0.0
The Basil Brush Show
as The Caretaker
2002
7.2
The Basil Brush Show
as Mr. Rossiter
2002
7.2
Born and Bred
as Ernest Gilles
2002
8.5
Making a Killing
as L.T. Harvey
2002
8.0
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Badger
1999
0.0
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Fisher
1999
7.2
The X-Files
as British Valet
1998
6.9
The Missing Postman
as Len Denbigh
1997
5.0
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Ellington
as Announcer
1996
0.0
Joseph
as Mundschenk
1995
8.2
Stanley's Dragon
as Mr. Batley
1994
3.0
Sharpe
as Hopkinson
1993
8.0
The Upper Hand
as Store Manager
1990
7.0
Campion
as William Potter
1989
5.6
Precious Bane
as Grimble
1989
6.0
War and Remembrance
1988
7.8
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Hell's Bells
as Wilfred Hankey
1986
5.0
Mussolini: The Untold Story
as German Ambassador
1985
4.8
Super Gran
as Mr. L. Chop
1985
6.3
Dempsey and Makepeace
as Sid Lowe
1985
6.4
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Foxy Lady
1982
0.0
Tishoo
as Cullin
1982
0.0
Bergerac
as Lonny Rice
1981
6.7
Bread or Blood
as Harbutt
1981
0.0
Oppenheimer
as George Kistiakowsky
1980
6.5
Hammer House of Horror
as A.J. Powers
1980
7.1
The Empire Strikes Back
as Bewil
1980
8.4
Minder
as Mr. Sinclair
1979
6.8
Shoestring
as Porter
1979
6.8
Butterflies
1978
7.1
A Horseman Riding By
as Reverend Horsey
1978
5.0
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Born and Bred
as Freddie Peglar
1978
6.0
Spearhead
as Mr Adams
1978
6.0
Life of Shakespeare
as Dr. Alcibiades
1978
0.0
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The Limbo Connection
as Tim Kennaway
1978
0.0
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
as Castellan Kelner
1978
6.0
Going Straight
as Mr. Kirby
1978
7.7
Armchair Thriller
as Tim Kennaway
1978
4.2
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
as George Lintz
1977
5.5
Dickens of London
as Samuel Starey
1976
6.5
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The Imp of the Perverse
as The Servant
1975
0.0
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
as Guy Crayford
1975
7.0
Poldark
as Matthew Sanson
1975
6.8
The Good Life
as Ernie
1975
7.6
South Riding
1974
0.0
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
as Evelyn de Plume
1974
0.0
Baffled!
as Dr. Reed
1973
5.1
The Jensen Code
as Mr. Richards
1973
5.5
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
1973
7.6
Crown Court
as Gus Enderby
1972
5.4
The Protectors
as Conway
1972
5.8
The Adventurer
as Alex
1972
5.5
The Intruder
as Sonny
1972
0.0
Budgie
as Nervous Docherty
1971
7.0
Sense and Sensibility
as John Dashwood
1971
5.5
Play for Today
as Evelyn de Plume
1970
6.3
The Misfit
as Evans
1970
0.0
Manhunt
as Renard
1970
6.5
The Expert
as Professor Kirk
1968
10.0
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
as Benik
1968
7.9
The Three Musketeers
as Grimaud
1966
5.0
Softly, Softly
1966
5.0
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
as March
1965
0.0
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Orlando
as Darlington
1965
0.0
The Wednesday Play
as March
1964
4.5
Doctor Who
as Guy Crayford
1963
7.9
Doctor Who
as Kelner
1963
7.9
The Saint
as Vargas
1962
7.4
Z-Cars
1962
7.0
No Hiding Place
1959
3.7