Acting

Karl Johnson

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.

Credits

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Truelove
as Tom
2024
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
as Bill
2023
Wolf
as Colonel Frink
2023
National Theatre Live: The Crucible
2023
Halo
as Hierarch Truth (voice)
2022
Suspicion
as Eric Cresswell
2022
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
as Richard Jenkins
2021
Dream Horse
as Kerby
2021
Too Close
as James de Cadenet
2021
Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
as Nagg
2020
The Last Vermeer
as Bernard Bakker
2019
Peterloo
as Lord Sidmouth, the Home Secretary
2018
King Lear
as Fool
2018
Kaleidoscope
as John
2017
The Death of Stalin
as Dr. Lukomsky
2017
Born to Kill
as Mr. Williams
2017
Winter Thaw
as Stepanovich
2016
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016
The Carer
as Joseph
2016
Mum
as Reg
2016
Mother
as Old Man in Café
2016
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
as Ghost / Gravedigger
2015
Mr. Turner
as Mr. Booth
2014
The Gospel According to St Derek
as Self
2014
Lovesick
as Richard
2014
Under Milk Wood
as Drowned / Voice
2014
Mr Invisible
as The Handler
2013
Atlantis
as Itheus
2013
The Sea
as Blunden
2013
It's Kevin
as Various
2013
Good Vibrations
as George Hooley
2012
Call the Midwife
as Mr. Masterson
2012
The Deep Blue Sea
as Mr. Miller
2011
The Pier
as Larry McCarthy
2011
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
as De Lacey
2011
Third Star
as Ticket Seller
2010
Is Anybody There?
as Arthur (uncredited)
2009
I Know You Know
as Ernie
2009
Merlin
as Taliesin
2008
The Edge of Love
as Dai Fred
2008
Lark Rise to Candleford
as Twister Turrill
2008
Ladies and Gentlemen
as Uncle Philip
2007
Dog Altogether
as Jack
2007
Hot Fuzz
as PC Bob Walker
2007
The Trial of Tony Blair
as Father Lunt
2007
Four Last Songs
as Erico
2007
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
as Marcellus
2006
Copying Beethoven
as Stefan Holtz
2006
The Illusionist
as Doctor / Old Man
2006
The Chatterley Affair
as Mr. Justice Byrne
2006
Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes
as Norman Douglas
2006
Heidi
as Old Man
2005
Frozen
as Coastguard Bill
2005
When I'm Sixty-Four
as Billy
2004
England Expects
2004
New Tricks
2004
77 Beds
as Spiritual Father
2003
Tomorrow La Scala!
as Sydney
2002
What's Your Problem?
2002
Pure
as Granddad
2002
Born and Bred
as Alec Rossendale
2002
Contagion
as Ferrin
2002
David Copperfield
as Tungay
1999
Vanity Fair
as Major Loder
1998
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
as John Deakin
1998
Midsomer Murders
as Derek Lockwood
1997
Saint-Ex
as Didier Daurat
1996
Dalziel and Pascoe
as Steve Earle
1996
An Independent Man
as Bill Rutherford
1995
The Lifeboat
as Hughie Jones
1994
Wittgenstein
as Ludwig Wittgenstein
1993
Close My Eyes
as Colin
1991
Let Him Have It
as Parris
1991
Rules of Engagement
as Dave Gillespie
1989
A Tale of Two Cities
as Solomon Pross/'John Barsad'
1989
The Shawl
as Charles
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Saunders
1989
The Black and Blue Lamp
as PC "Taffy" Hughes
1988
The Play on One
as Charles
1988
A Prayer for the Dying
as Fitzgerald
1987