Milton Johns
{{Short description|English character actor}}
{{about|the British actor|the British comedian|Milton Jones}}
{{BLP sources|date=May 2009}}
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| name = Milton Johns
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| birth_name = John Robert Milton
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1938|3|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = Bristol, England
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| occupation = Actor
| yearsactive = 1960s–2007
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John Robert Milton (born 13 March 1938), known professionally as Milton Johns, is an English retired character actor who worked almost continuously throughout his career. A versatile talent, he specialises in sinister or obsequious roles and featured regularly in many British popular television series for both adults and children. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Biography
Johns was born on 13 March 1938 in Bristol. He is known for being in Happy Families (1989) as Mr Alphonso, the café manager of Mrs Wobble,{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0823028/?ref_=ttep_ep1|title=Mrs Wobble the Waitress: Part 1|date=6 November 1989|via=IMDb}} Coronation Street as Brendan Scott (1991–93), the shopkeeper who died of a heart attack while pedalling along the eponymous cobbled street.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4VJSjWBlxQVS9g9l3MMQkLC/the-fourth-dimension|title = BBC One - Doctor Who, Season 13, the Android Invasion - the Fourth Dimension}} 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, The Saint, Don't Wait Up, Butterflies, Minder, A Horseman Riding By, Campion and Z-Cars.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=8807|title=Milton Johns|website=www.aveleyman.com}} He played the landlord in The Basil Brush Show (2002–07).{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/racing/article449724.ece|date=25 June 2004|title=Hairline decision brings brush with fame|newspaper=The Times|first=Cornelius|last=Lysaght|accessdate=1 January 2011}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} He also played jobsworth Mr Cassidy in Murphy's Mob, an ITV children's television drama series (1982–85).{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b74a3c131|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126101236/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b74a3c131|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 November 2020|title=Murphy's Mob (1985)|website=BFI}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/invasiontime/detail.shtml |title=Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - The Invasion of Time - Details |publisher=BBC |date= |accessdate=2016-12-21}}
Johns also appeared in the TV mini-series Moll Flanders in 1996. He played a pawnshop owner.
In 1972 Johns starred in the children's Sunday evening series The Intruder and in 1977, appeared in another children's series, Midnight Is A Place.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f69af3f|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130142519/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f69af3f|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 November 2018|title=Milton Johns|website=BFI}}{{Cite web|url=https://nostalgiacentral.com/television/tv-by-decade/tv-shows-1970s/midnight-is-a-place/|title=Midnight Is a Place | Nostalgia Central|date=18 October 2017}} In the 1980s, he also appeared in the Grange Hill spin-off Tucker's Luck.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b876d4e6c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410115928/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b876d4e6c|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 April 2021|title=Tucker's Luck[21/04/83] (1983)|website=BFI}} Johns also appeared as an Imperial Officer (Captain Bewil) in the 1980 film, The Empire Strikes Back.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bd22b15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160210101743/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bd22b15|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 February 2016|title=Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back (1980)|website=BFI}} He played Perker in the 1985 adaptation of The Pickwick Papers. In the 1988 television mini-series War and Remembrance, he took the role of Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/13/arts/tv-view-war-and-remembrance-rewarding-relic.html|title=TV VIEW; 'War and Remembrance': Rewarding Relic|first=John J.|last=O'Connor|newspaper=The New York Times|date=13 November 1988}}
Filmography
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Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes | |||
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1967-68 | Doctor Who | Theodore Benik | Serial: The Enemy of the World |
1973 | Baffled! | Dr. Reed | |
1973 | Crown Court | Gus Enderby | Played this role in 3 episodes of "The Most Expensive Steak in the World" |
1975 | Doctor Who | Guy Crayford | Serial: The Android Invasion |
1978 | Doctor Who | Castellan Kelner | Serial: The Invasion of Time |
1980 | The Empire Strikes Back | Captain Bewil (Imperial Officer) | |
1994 | Stanley's Dragon | Mr. Batley | |
1996 | Moll Flanders | Mr Mickeljohn | |
1998 | The X-Files | British Valet | |
2002 | Making a Killing | L.T. Harvey |
References
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20181130142519/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f69af3f Milton Johns] at the British Film Institute{{better source needed|reason=Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert - if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. Or if none found, remove this 'better source needed' template. | date=October 2023}}
- [http://www.corrie.net/profiles/actors/johns_milton.html Milton Johns]
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Category:Alumni of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Category:English male film actors