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.
Filmography (98)
Truelove
2024
National Theatre Live: The Crucible
2023
Wolf
2023
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies
2023
Suspicion
2022
Halo
2022
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021
Dream Horse
2021
Too Close
2021
Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
2020
The Last Vermeer
2019
King Lear
2018
Peterloo
2018
Kaleidoscope
2017
The Death of Stalin
2017
Born to Kill
2017
The Carer
2016
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016
Winter Thaw
2016
Mother
2016
Mum
2016
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2015
Under Milk Wood
2014
Mr. Turner
2014
The Gospel According to St Derek
2014
Lovesick
2014
The Sea
2013
Mr Invisible
2013
Atlantis
2013
It's Kevin
2013
Good Vibrations
2012
Call the Midwife
2012
The Deep Blue Sea
2011
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
2011
The Pier
2011
Third Star
2010
I Know You Know
2009
Is Anybody There?
2009
The Edge of Love
2008
Lark Rise to Candleford
2008
Merlin
2008
Dog Altogether
2007
Four Last Songs
2007
Hot Fuzz
2007
The Trial of Tony Blair
2007
The Illusionist
2006
Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes
2006
Copying Beethoven
2006
The Chatterley Affair
2006
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
Frozen
2005
Heidi
2005
England Expects
2004
When I'm Sixty-Four
2004
New Tricks
2004
77 Beds
2003
Tomorrow La Scala!
2002
Pure
2002
Contagion
2002
What's Your Problem?
2002
Born and Bred
2002
David Copperfield
1999
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998
Vanity Fair
1998
Midsomer Murders
1997
Saint-Ex
1996
An Independent Man
1995
The Lifeboat
1994
Wittgenstein
1993
Close My Eyes
1991
Let Him Have It
1991
The Shawl
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Rules of Engagement
1989
A Tale of Two Cities
1989
The Black and Blue Lamp
1988
The Play on One
1988
A Prayer for the Dying
1987
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
ScreenPlay
1986
The Mysteries
1985
The Bill
1984
Night Court
1984
The Magic Shop
1982
Sons and Lovers
1981
Bergerac
1981
Sons and Lovers
1981
The Tempest
1979
Only Connect
1979
Shoestring
1979
The Other Side
1979
Jubilee
1978
Cold Harbour
1978
Chips with Everything
1975
Rainbow
1972
BBC Play of the Month
1965
The Sooty Show
1955
Ladies and Gentlemen