Karl Johnson (actor)

Karl Johnson (born 1 March 1948) is a Welsh actor, notable for acting on stage, film and television. His most notable role to date is the title role in Derek Jarman's 1993 film Wittgenstein.^[1] He is also well known for the roles of Cato the Younger in the television drama series Rome and of Twister Turrill in the BBC costume drama series Lark Rise to Candleford.^[2]

Johnson is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Birmingham City University.

Karl Johnson describing his favourite pub The Pineapple, Kentish Town, for the London Beyond Sight project

Selected filmography

• Lovesick 2016
• The Sea 2013
• The Pier (Gerard Hurley) 2011 ^[3]
• Four Last Songs, Erico 2007
• Hot Fuzz, PC Bob Walker 2007
• The Illusionist 2006
• Heidi
• Pure 2002
• Tomorrow La Scala 2002
• Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon 1998
• Wittgenstein 1993
• Close My Eyes
• Prick Up Your Ears
• Jubilee
• The Tempest
• The Tent (film)
• The Magic Shop (film)
• Oh Shucks! Here Comes UNTAG

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
• 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

Selected TV career

• Rainbow (1973 - 1974) [as part of the music trio]
• Small Island
• Lark Rise to Candleford
• New Tricks
• The Chatterley Affair
• Nostradamus
• Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
• Why We Went to War
• Midsomer Murders
• Rome
• Ray's Daze
• Born and Bred
• The Mayor of Casterbridge
• Without Motive
• David Copperfield
• Vanity Fair
• The Temptation of Franz Schubert
• Wing and a Prayer
• An Independent Man
• As You Like It
• Catherine the Great
• When I'm 64
• The Bill
• Sons and Lovers
• Call the Midwife

References

1. Open Culture: Wittgenstein. Accessed 7 May 2014
2. BBC One - Lark Rise to Candleford. Accessed 7 May 2014
3. "Irish Film Board - Film Directory - Features - The Pier". Directory.irishfilmboard.ie. Retrieved 2013-02-25.

External links

• Karl Johnson at the Internet Movie Database