Karl Johnson
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.5188 |
| Birthday | 1948-03-01 |
| Place of Birth | Wales, UK |
| Also Known As |
2006
The Illusionist
7.3/5487
With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crown prince. But Eise...
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The Illusionist
1998
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
6.054/74
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer,...
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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
2009
I Know You Know
5.8/17
Jamie, an 11-year-old boy, is fascinated by his father Charlie’s espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie lives in his ow...
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I Know You Know
2006
Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes
2/2
Elizabeth David is the most important cookery writer of the 20th century. David's public image was of an elegant, respectable and somewhat austere fig...
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Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes
2021
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
0/0
A community is sleeping. If you listen closely, you can hear their dreams. The retired sea captain yearning for his lost love. The landlady living in...
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National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
1981
Sons and Lovers
0/0
An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel
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Sons and Lovers
1978
Jubilee
6/82
Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
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Jubilee
1989
The Shawl
0/0
Miss A, troubled by problems, consults a clairvoyant. Can he solve them for her by summoning the spirits? Or is he just a fraud, out to steal her mone...
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The Shawl
2011
The Deep Blue Sea
5.908/321
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
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The Deep Blue Sea
1991
Close My Eyes
5.799/77
After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessiona...
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Close My Eyes
1993
Wittgenstein
6.408/92
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose p...
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Wittgenstein
2011
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
7.7/89
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. M...
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National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
2011
The Pier
0/0
After 20 years of no contact with his father, Jack McCarthy (played by Hurley) travels from New York to his father Larry's death bed in Cork. Upon arr...
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The Pier
1996
Saint-Ex
4.25/4
Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
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Saint-Ex
1979
The Tempest
5.8/27
Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brot...
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The Tempest
2014
Under Milk Wood
6.208/12
An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan Thomas's radio play, presented in collaboration with National...
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Under Milk Wood
2007
Dog Altogether
6.75/14
Joseph is a man plagued by a violence and rage who is driving him to self destruction. As he falls further into turmoil, Joseph scours the landscape i...
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Dog Altogether
2007
Four Last Songs
5.429/14
A comic drama set on a Mediterranean island, where a motley collection of characters is seeking musical redemption.
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Four Last Songs
2014
Mr. Turner
6.545/598
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful...
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Mr. Turner
2023
National Theatre Live: The Crucible
4.5/2
A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller's captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma). Raised to be seen...
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National Theatre Live: The Crucible
2004
England Expects
9/2
The story follows former football hooligan Ray Knight (Steven Mackintosh), a normal everyday family man who works as a security guard at a financial t...
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England Expects
2010
Third Star
7.014/146
James and his three closest lifelong friends go on an ill-advised trip to the stunning coastal area of Barafundle Bay in West Wales. What follows is a...
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Third Star
2014
The Gospel According to St Derek
0/0
Using interviews with close family, friends and collaborators, The Gospel According to St. Derek bears witness to Derek Jarman’s unique approach to lo...
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The Gospel According to St Derek
1988
The Black and Blue Lamp
0/0
Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police force has been represented on TV for four decades. In...
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The Black and Blue Lamp
1978
Cold Harbour
0/0
A beautiful Chilean exile called Tina is stranded in a new country.
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Cold Harbour
2002
Tomorrow La Scala!
8/2
Members of a British opera troupe mount a production of "Sweeney Todd" within a maximum-security prison.
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Tomorrow La Scala!
2007
Hot Fuzz
7.571/8620
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he m...
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Hot Fuzz
2016
The Carer
6.6/36
Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an inc...
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The Carer
1987
A Prayer for the Dying
5.882/119
Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his f...
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A Prayer for the Dying
2009
Is Anybody There?
6.3/78
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
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Is Anybody There?
1987
Prick Up Your Ears
6.7/106
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they sta...
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Prick Up Your Ears
2005
Frozen
5.895/20
It's two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister Annie, but Kath remains haunted by a need to know what happened. Wh...
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Frozen
2015
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
7.5/55
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages again...
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National Theatre Live: Hamlet
1991
Let Him Have It
6.667/51
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangs...
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Let Him Have It
2002
Pure
6.135/51
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
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Pure
2013
The Sea
5.433/15
A man returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife.
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The Sea
2012
Good Vibrations
6.7/119
The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label...
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Good Vibrations
2017
Kaleidoscope
5.583/30
A psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother.
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Kaleidoscope
2017
The Death of Stalin
7.013/2233
When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl...
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The Death of Stalin
2018
King Lear
6.041/109
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
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King Lear
2018
Peterloo
6.72/161
An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Mancheste...
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Peterloo
2016
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
6.3/3
A film poem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, written by Owen Sheers and performed by a stellar cast of Wales's best-known...
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Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2004
When I'm Sixty-Four
5.382/17
When widowed cabbie Ray and retired teacher Jim meet by chance, they discover they long for the same things from life: adventure, challenge and love....
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When I'm Sixty-Four
1982
The Magic Shop
9/1
A father and son enter a magic shop that may contain real magic.
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The Magic Shop
2016
Winter Thaw
0/0
In late nineteenth-century Russia, Martin Avdeitch is a humble shoemaker whose life has been characterized by grief. Martin must find the courage to l...
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Winter Thaw
2021
Dream Horse
6.993/142
The inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience,...
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Dream Horse
2008
The Edge of Love
6.169/400
When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's child...
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The Edge of Love
2005
Heidi
7.773/141
Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charg...
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Heidi
2013
Mr Invisible
7/1
A lonely old man seems invisible to the world around him. But when he journeys to the heart of London, being 'invisible' proves to be his greatest wea...
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Mr Invisible
2006
Copying Beethoven
6.5/194
Serving as Ludwig van Beethoven's copyist gives a conservatory student access to the composer's musical genius, but also exposes her to his cruelty.
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Copying Beethoven
2020
Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
0/0
Hamm is an ageing, blind tyrant who is confined to a wheelchair – but soon becomes locked in a bleakly funny and subversively devastating stalemate....
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Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
2019
The Last Vermeer
6.524/147
A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a f...
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The Last Vermeer
2016
Mother
0/0
In the aftermath of his mother's death, Edwin reaches out to his extended family for support.
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Mother
2003
77 Beds
8/2
One sleepless night Ishmael, a young spacey urban nomad, starts counting back through all the beds he has ever slept in.
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77 Beds
1975
Chips with Everything
8/1
A group of Air Force conscripts begin eight weeks of 'square-bashing' - basic military drill. Two of the conscripts develop a friendship, Pip Thompson...
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Chips with Everything
2007
Ladies and Gentlemen
0/0
The story revolves around the rather self-centred ladies and gentlemen living in a Victorian house with their maids and money looking after them and n...
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Ladies and Gentlemen
2006
The Chatterley Affair
5.278/9
The trial, under The Obscene Publications Act, of the publishers of D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'in 1960 was a sensation that consumed the...
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The Chatterley Affair
2007
The Trial of Tony Blair
6/6
Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal...
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The Trial of Tony Blair
2002
Contagion
4.184/19
Terrorists strike at the U.S. President with a deadly Level Four Ebola virus. To prevent a worldwide epidemic, the army is faced with destroying the h...
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Contagion
1979
Only Connect
0/0
When researching the UK labour movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Graham discovers the pioneering socialist and gay rights campaigner Edwa...
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Only Connect
Untitled 13
0/0
Documentary about the making of Mike Leigh's Mr.Turner, unreleased due to unspecified 'legal reasons'
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