Milton Johns
Acting
🎂 1938-05-13
Milton Johns (born 13 May 1938) is an English actor whose thin features and talent for obsequious or oily characters has often influenced the many television parts he has received. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Johns was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire. He was in Coronation Street as Brendan Scott (1991–93), the shopkeeper who died of a heart attack while pedalling along the eponymous cobbled street. 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, Don't Wait Up, Butterflies, Campion and Z-Cars. He played the landlord in The Basil Brush Show (2002–07). Johns also played jobsworth Mr Cassidy in Murphy's Mob, an ITV children's television drama series (1982–85). 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. In 1972 he starred in the children's Sunday evening series The Intruder and in 1977, appeared in another children's series, Midnight Is A Place. Johns also appeared as an Imperial Officer (Captain Bewil) in the 1980 Star Wars sequel, The Empire Strikes Back. He played Perker in the 1985 adaptation of The Pickwick Papers. In the 1986 television series War and Remembrance, Johns took the role of the senior Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann.
Cast credits(65)

Guy Crayford
1963

Kelner
1963

Store Manager
1990

Evelyn de Plume
1970

1959

1962

1966

Mr. Sinclair
1979

The Caretaker
2002

Mr. Rossiter
2002

Vargas
1962

Lonny Rice
1981

Alex
1972

Sid Lowe
1985

Conway
1972

Gus Enderby
1972

Renard
1970

Nervous Docherty
1971

George Kistiakowsky
1980

Professor Kirk
1968

Matthew Sanson
1975

1966

1969

Dr. Alcibiades
1978

Ernie
1975

Hopkinson
1993

1978

A.J. Powers
1980

Mr. Richards
1973

1973

2002

Darlington
1965

Bewil
1980

Mr. L. Chop
1985

Tim Kennaway
1978

Evans
1970

William Potter
1989
1986

1979

1988
1999

Mundschenk
1995

British Valet
1998

Fisher
1999
1982

Samuel Starey
1976

Mr. Kirby
1978

Announcer
1996

Dr. Reed
1973

Benik
1968

Len Denbigh
1997

Kelner (archive footage)
2008

Harbutt
1981

Castellan Kelner
1978

Mr. Batley
1994
Tim Kennaway
1978

1974

The Servant
1975

Evelyn de Plume
1974

Cullin
1982

March
1965
2025

Guy Crayford
1975

L.T. Harvey
2002
2025