Karl Johnson (actor)

Filmography

Film

• Jubilee - Sphinx
• The Tempest - Ariel, an airy spirit
• Prick Up Your Ears - Douglas Orton
• A Prayer for the Dying - Fitzgerald
• Close My Eyes - Colin
• Let Him Have It - Parris
• Wittgenstein - Ludwig Wittgenstein
• - John Deakin
• Tomorrow La Scala - Sydney
• Pure - Grandad
• Frozen - Coastguard Bill
• Heidi - Old Man
• The Illusionist - Doctor / Old Man
• Copying Beethoven - Stefan Holtz
• Four Last Songs - Erico
• Hot Fuzz - PC Bob Walker
• The Edge of Love - Dai Fred
• Is Anybody There? - Arthur
• I Know You Know - Ernie
• Third Star - Ticket Seller
• Frankenstein - de Lacey
• The Pier - Larry McCarthy
• The Deep Blue Sea - Mr Miller
• Good Vibrations - George
• The Sea - Blunden
• Mr Turner - Mr Booth
• Hamlet - Ghost of Hamlet's Father / Gravedigger
• The Carer - Joseph
• Kaleidoscope - John
• Winter Thaw - Stepanovich
• The Death of Stalin - Dr. Lukomsky
• Peterloo - Lord Sidmouth, the Home Secretary
• King Lear - The Fool

  Television

• Rainbow - Karl, part of the music trio
• Sons and Lovers - Paul Morel
• A Tale of Two Cities - Barsad
• The Bill - Jon Jennings / Len Rogers / Geoff Hallwood / D.I. Osborne
• Agatha Christie's Poirot - Saunders
• Catherine the Great - Sheshkovsky
• An Independent Man - Bill Rutherford
• The Temptation of Franz Schubert - Doctor
• Wing and a Prayer
• Vanity Fair - Major Loder
• David Copperfield - Tungay
• Without Motive - Robert Jackson
• Born and Bred - Alec Rossendale
• The Mayor of Casterbridge - Fall
• When I'm 64 - Billy
• Midsomer Murders - Derek Lockwood
• Rome - Porcius Cato
• The Chatterley Affair - Mr. Justice Byrne
• Nostradamus
• New Tricks - Gary Kendall
• - Marcellus
• As You Like It
• Lark Rise to Candleford - Twister Turrill
• Small Island - Arthur Bligh
• Merlin - Taliesin
• Call the Midwife - Mr. Masterson
• Why We Went to War
• Lovesick - Richard
• Mum - Reg
• King Lear - Fool
• Ray's Daze

  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
• Hamlet, 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