Karl Johnson
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For
The Illusionist
2006
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998
I Know You Know
2009
Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes
2006
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021
Sons and Lovers
1981
Jubilee
1978
The Shawl
1989
The Deep Blue Sea
2011
Close My Eyes
1991
Wittgenstein
1993
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
2011
The Pier
2011
Saint-Ex
1996
The Tempest
1979
Under Milk Wood
2014
Dog Altogether
2007
Four Last Songs
2007
Mr. Turner
2014
National Theatre Live: The Crucible
2023
England Expects
2004
Third Star
2010
The Gospel According to St Derek
2014
The Black and Blue Lamp
1988
Cold Harbour
1978
Tomorrow La Scala!
2002
Hot Fuzz
2007
The Carer
2016
A Prayer for the Dying
1987
Is Anybody There?
2009
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
Frozen
2005
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2015
Let Him Have It
1991
Pure
2002
The Sea
2013
Good Vibrations
2012
Kaleidoscope
2017
The Death of Stalin
2017
King Lear
2018
Peterloo
2018
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016
When I'm Sixty-Four
2004
The Magic Shop
1982
Winter Thaw
2016
Dream Horse
2021
Heidi
2005
Copying Beethoven
2006
The Edge of Love
2008
Mr Invisible
2013
Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
2020
The Last Vermeer
2019
Mother
2016
77 Beds
2003
Chips with Everything
1975
Ladies and Gentlemen
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The Chatterley Affair
2006
Midsomer Murders
1997
The Bill
1984
Atlantis
2013
Lark Rise to Candleford
2008
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
New Tricks
2004
What's Your Problem?
2002
The Mysteries
1985
Mum
2016
Rules of Engagement
1989
Rainbow
1972
The Sooty Show
1955
Born to Kill
2017
Wolf
2023
The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies
2023
Suspicion
2022
Halo
2022
Bergerac
1981
Night Court
1984
Too Close
2021
The Play on One
1988
Merlin
2008
Lovesick
2014
Sons and Lovers
1981
David Copperfield
1999
Call the Midwife
2012
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
It's Kevin
2013
Truelove
2024
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Born and Bred
2002
A Tale of Two Cities
1989
The Lifeboat
1994
Shoestring
1979
Vanity Fair
1998