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Karl Johnson 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, 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.
Born
Monday, 01 March 1948
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Truelove | Tom | 2024 |
| The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies | Bill Newman / Bill | 2023 |
| Wolf | Colonel Frink | 2023 |
| National Theatre Live: The Crucible | Giles Corey | 2023 |
| Mammals | Mr. Lewis | 2022 |
| Halo | Truth | 2022 |
| Suspicion | Eric Cresswell | 2022 |
| Too Close | James de Cadenet | 2021 |
| Dream Horse | Kerby | 2020 |
| The Last Vermeer | Bernard Bakker | 2019 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Truelove | Tom | 2024 |
| The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies | Bill Newman / Bill | 2023 |
| Wolf | Colonel Frink | 2023 |
| National Theatre Live: The Crucible | Giles Corey | 2023 |
| Mammals | Mr. Lewis | 2022 |
| Halo | Truth | 2022 |
| Suspicion | Eric Cresswell | 2022 |
| Too Close | James de Cadenet | 2021 |
| Dream Horse | Kerby | 2020 |
| The Last Vermeer | Bernard Bakker | 2019 |
| Peterloo | Lord Sidmouth, the Home Secretary / Lord Sidmouth - The Home Secretary | 2018 |
| King Lear | Fool | 2018 |
| Kaleidoscope | John | 2017 |
| Keeping Faith | Lord Prentice | 2017 |
| The Death of Stalin | Dr. Lukomsky | 2017 |
| Britannia | Cormac | 2017 |
| Born to Kill | Mr. Williams | 2017 |
| Winter Thaw | Stepanovich | 2016 |
| The Carer | Joseph | 2016 |
| Mum | Reg | 2016 |
| Dickensian | Grandfather | 2015 |
| Hamlet | Ghost of Hamlet's Father / Gravedigger / Ghost | 2015 |
| Mr Invisible | The Handler | 2015 |
| Mr. Turner | Mr Booth / Mr. Booth | 2014 |
| Lovesick | Richard | 2014 |
| Under Milk Wood | Drowned / Voice | 2014 |
| The Sea | Blunden | 2014 |
| Atlantis | Itheus | 2013 |
| Plebs | Judge | 2013 |
| It's Kevin | Various | 2013 |
| Good Vibrations | George / George Hooley | 2012 |
| Call the Midwife | Mr. Masterson | 2012 |
| The Deep Blue Sea | Mr. Miller / Mr Miller | 2011 |
| The Pier | Larry McCarthy | 2011 |
| Frankenstein | De Lacey, her father-in Law / De Lacey | 2011 |
| Third Star | Ticket Seller | 2010 |
| Is Anybody There? | Arthur | 2009 |
| I Know You Know | Ernie | 2009 |
| Merlin | Taliesin | 2008 |
| The Edge of Love | Dai Fred | 2008 |
| Lark Rise to Candleford | Twister Turrill | 2008 |
| Dog Altogether | Jack | 2007 |
| Hot Fuzz | PC Bob Walker | 2007 |
| The Trial of Tony Blair | Father Lunt | 2007 |
| Four Last Songs | Erico | 2007 |
| Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Marcellus | 2006 |
| Copying Beethoven | Stefan Holtz | 2006 |
| The Illusionist | Old Man / Doctor | 2006 |
| Nostradamus | 2006 | |
| The Chatterley Affair | Mr. Justice Byrne | 2006 |
| Rome | Porcius Cato | 2005 |
| Heidi | Old Man | 2005 |
| Frozen | Coastguard Bill | 2005 |
| When I'm Sixty-Four | Billy | 2004 |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge | Fall | 2003 |
| New Tricks | Gary Kendall | 2003 |
| Tomorrow La Scala! | Sydney | 2002 |
| Pure | Grandad / Granddad | 2002 |
| Born and Bred | Alec Rossendale | 2002 |
| Without Motive | Robert Jackson | 2000 |
| David Copperfield | Tungay | 1999 |
| Vanity Fair | Major Loder | 1998 |
| Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | John Deakin | 1998 |
| Midsomer Murders | Derek Lockwood | 1997 |
| The Temptation of Franz Schubert | Doctor | 1997 |
| Dalziel and Pascoe | Stevie Earle | 1996 |
| Wittgenstein | Ludwig Wittgenstein | 1993 |
| Let Him Have It | Parris | 1991 |
| Close My Eyes | Colin | 1991 |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Barsad | 1989 |
| Poirot | Saunders | 1989 |
| The Play on One | Charles | 1988 |
| A Prayer for the Dying | Fitzgerald | 1987 |
| Prick Up Your Ears | Douglas Orton | 1987 |
| Casualty | Brian Russell | 1986 |
| Boon | Joe | 1986 |
| Bulman | DS 'Ace' Lawson | 1985 |
| The Brief | Len Rogers / Jon Jennings / Geoff Hallwood / D.I. Osborne | 1984 |
| The Home Front | Vernon Hemingway | 1983 |
| Bergerac | Henry Morant | 1981 |
| Shoestring | Dennis Philips | 1979 |
| The Tempest | Ariel, an airy spirit | 1979 |
| Jubilee | Sphinx | 1978 |
| Angels | Simon Mellan / Busker | 1975 |
| Rainbow | Karl / Himself (singer) | 1972 |
| ITV Playhouse | Geoff | 1967 |
| BBC Play of the Month | Wilf Seaford | 1965 |
