Karl Johnson
Birthday: 1948-03-01
Place of Birth: Wales, UK
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.
Movies
The Illusionist
With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her...
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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. Th...
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I Know You Know
Jamie, an 11-year-old boy, is fascinated by his father Charlie’s espionage work until the world of s...
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Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes
Elizabeth David is the most important cookery writer of the 20th century. David's public image was o...
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National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
A community is sleeping. If you listen closely, you can hear their dreams. The retired sea captain...
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Sons and Lovers
An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel...
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Jubilee
Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed si...
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The Shawl
Miss A, troubled by problems, consults a clairvoyant. Can he solve them for her by summoning the spi...
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The Deep Blue Sea
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot...
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Close My Eyes
After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now marri...
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Wittgenstein
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge...
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National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out int...
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The Pier
After 20 years of no contact with his father, Jack McCarthy (played by Hurley) travels from New York...
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The Tempest
Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in e...
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Under Milk Wood
An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan Thomas's ra...
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Dog Altogether
Joseph is a man plagued by a violence and rage who is driving him to self destruction. As he falls f...
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Four Last Songs
A comic drama set on a Mediterranean island, where a motley collection of characters is seeking musi...
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Mr. Turner
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes inv...
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National Theatre Live: The Crucible
A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller's captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Cro...
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England Expects
The story follows former football hooligan Ray Knight (Steven Mackintosh), a normal everyday family ...
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Third Star
James and his three closest lifelong friends go on an ill-advised trip to the stunning coastal area ...
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The Gospel According to St Derek
Using interviews with close family, friends and collaborators, The Gospel According to St. Derek bea...
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The Black and Blue Lamp
Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police forc...
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Tomorrow La Scala!
Members of a British opera troupe mount a production of "Sweeney Todd" within a maximum-security pri...
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Hot Fuzz
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the slee...
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The Carer
Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legend...
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A Prayer for the Dying
Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond wit...
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Is Anybody There?
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician....
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Prick Up Your Ears
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama sc...
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Frozen
It's two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister Annie, but Kath r...
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National Theatre Live: Hamlet
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death b...
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Let Him Have It
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Cr...
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Pure
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cop...
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The Sea
A man returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death...
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Good Vibrations
The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded th...
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Kaleidoscope
A psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother...
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The Death of Stalin
When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to be...
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King Lear
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects hi...
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Peterloo
An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pr...
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Aberfan: The Green Hollow
A film poem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, written by Owen Sheers and ...
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When I'm Sixty-Four
When widowed cabbie Ray and retired teacher Jim meet by chance, they discover they long for the same...
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Winter Thaw
In late nineteenth-century Russia, Martin Avdeitch is a humble shoemaker whose life has been charact...
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Dream Horse
The inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan...
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The Edge of Love
When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the la...
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Heidi
Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, wh...
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Mr Invisible
A lonely old man seems invisible to the world around him. But when he journeys to the heart of Londo...
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Copying Beethoven
A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It ...
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Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
Hamm is an ageing, blind tyrant who is confined to a wheelchair – but soon becomes locked in a bleak...
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The Last Vermeer
A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World...
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Mother
In the aftermath of his mother's death, Edwin reaches out to his extended family for support....
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77 Beds
One sleepless night Ishmael, a young spacey urban nomad, starts counting back through all the beds h...
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Chips with Everything
A group of Air Force conscripts begin eight weeks of 'square-bashing' - basic military drill. Two of...
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Ladies and Gentlemen
The story revolves around the rather self-centred ladies and gentlemen living in a Victorian house w...
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