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Karl Johnson (actor)

{{Short description|Welsh actor (born 1948)}}

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{{distinguish|Carl Johnson (Grand Theft Auto)}}

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| name = Karl Johnson

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|03|01|df=y}}

| birth_place = Wales

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Karl Johnson (born 1 March 1948) is a Welsh actor, who has worked on stage, film and television. His notable roles to date include the title role in Derek Jarman's 1993 film Wittgenstein,[http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/iwittgensteini_watch_derek_jarmans_tribute_to_the_philosopher_featuring_tilda_swinton_1993.html Open Culture: Wittgenstein] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006194049/http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/iwittgensteini_watch_derek_jarmans_tribute_to_the_philosopher_featuring_tilda_swinton_1993.html |date=6 October 2018 }}. Accessed 7 May 2014 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.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gbbl0/characters/twister-turrill BBC One - Lark Rise to Candleford]. Accessed 7 May 2014

Filmography

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Selected stage career

  • The Seafarer, as James 'Sharky' Harkin, National Theatre, London
  • Tales From The Vienna Woods, National Theatre, London
  • Scenes from the Big Picture, National Theatre, London
  • Hamlet, National Theatre, London{{cite book|author=Patrick O'Kane|title=Actors' Voices: The People Behind the Performances: The People Behind the Performances|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iKCo-xn2tdwC&pg=PT9|date=2 May 2012|publisher=Oberon Books|isbn=978-1-84943-336-5|pages=9}}
  • The Walls, National Theatre, London
  • Cardiff East, National Theatre, London
  • The Ends of the Earth, National Theatre, London
  • Machine Wreckers, National Theatre, London
  • The Shape of The Table, National Theatre, London
  • Black Snow, National Theatre, London
  • Golden Boy, National Theatre, London
  • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, National Theatre, London
  • The Sea, National Theatre, London
  • Uncle Vanya, National Theatre, London
  • Don Quixote, National Theatre, London
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream, National Theatre, London
  • The Fawn, National Theatre, London
  • Glengarry Glen Ross, National Theatre, London
  • Wild Honey, National Theatre, London
  • The Rivals, National Theatre, London
  • The Mysteries, National Theatre, London
  • Animal Farm, National Theatre, London
  • Almost Nothing/At The Table, Royal Court Theatre, London
  • Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen, Royal Court Theatre, London
  • This Is A Chair, Royal Court Theatre, London
  • The Night Heron, Royal Court Theatre, London
  • Boy Gets Girl, Royal Court Theatre, London
  • The Weir, Royal Court Theatre, London
  • Been So Long, Royal Court Theatre, London
  • Just a Little Less Than Normal, Royal Court Theatre, London
  • Sudlow's Dawn, Royal Court Theatre, London
  • Irish Eyes and English Tears, Royal Court Theatre, London
  • In The Company of Men, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford
  • TV Times, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford
  • Knight of the Burning Pestle, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford
  • Amadeus, Peter Hall Company
  • The Country Wife, Centreline Productions
  • The Last Yankee, Leicester Haymarket
  • Woyzeck, Foco Novo at Lyric Hammersmith
  • War Crimes, ICA
  • The Dresser, Leatherhead
  • Hedda Gabler, Yvonne Arnaud Guildford
  • Much Ado About Nothing, Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
  • As You Like It, Old Vic
  • Vieux Carre, West End
  • Frankenstein, National Theatre, London
  • Barking in Essex, Wyndham's Theatre
  • The Cherry Orchard, St. Ann's Warehouse{{cite web |author= |title=The Cherry Orchard (Off-Broadway, St. Ann's Warehouse, 2025) |url=https://playbill.com/production/the-cherry-orchard-off-broadway-st-anns-warehouse-2025 |website=Playbill |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250421141441/https://playbill.com/production/the-cherry-orchard-off-broadway-st-anns-warehouse-2025 |archive-date=April 21, 2025 |access-date=May 23, 2025}}

References

External links

  • {{IMDb name|0425490}}

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Category:1948 births

Category:Living people

Category:Welsh male film actors

Category:Welsh male stage actors

Category:Welsh male television actors

Category:21st-century Welsh male actors

Category:20th-century Welsh male actors