
Karl Johnson
Acting
Born 1948-03-01 · Wales, UK
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

Hot Fuzz
2007 · Movie

The Death of Stalin
2017 · Movie

The Illusionist
2006 · Movie

The Edge of Love
2008 · Movie

Dream Horse
2021 · Movie

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
2011 · Movie

Peterloo
2018 · Movie

Mr. Turner
2014 · Movie

King Lear
2018 · Movie

Close My Eyes
1991 · Movie

Heidi
2005 · Movie

Prick Up Your Ears
1987 · Movie

The Last Vermeer
2019 · Movie

The Magic Shop
1982 · Movie

Copying Beethoven
2006 · Movie

Tomorrow La Scala!
2002 · Movie

Third Star
2010 · Movie

National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2015 · Movie

The Deep Blue Sea
2011 · Movie

Pure
2002 · Movie

Chips with Everything
1975 · Movie

Good Vibrations
2012 · Movie

Let Him Have It
1991 · Movie

77 Beds
2003 · Movie

Is Anybody There?
2009 · Movie

Jubilee
1978 · Movie

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998 · Movie

A Prayer for the Dying
1987 · Movie

The Carer
2016 · Movie

Dog Altogether
2007 · Movie

Wittgenstein
1993 · Movie

Four Last Songs
2007 · Movie

Frozen
2005 · Movie

Under Milk Wood
2014 · Movie

The Tempest
1979 · Movie

I Know You Know
2009 · Movie

Kaleidoscope
2017 · Movie

The Chatterley Affair
2006 · Movie

The Sea
2013 · Movie

When I'm Sixty-Four
2004 · Movie

Saint-Ex
1996 · Movie

National Theatre Live: The Crucible
2023 · Movie

Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes
2006 · Movie

National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021 · Movie

The Pier
2011 · Movie

Mother
2016 · Movie

Sons and Lovers
1981 · Movie

The Black and Blue Lamp
1988 · Movie

The Shawl
1989 · Movie

Winter Thaw
2016 · Movie

The Gospel According to St Derek
2014 · Movie

Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
2020 · Movie