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Acting

Richard Johnson

Career: Active from 1954 to 2014, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 37
top three billing

Average score: 59/100

Highest rated: Radiator
84/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 68 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Richard Johnson Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.8, average 5.4
Coming of Age
1.9, average 3.0
Pop Culture
1.2, average 2.2
Wholesome
2.4, average 3.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Political Intrigue 8
Character-Driven 5
Period Piece 3
Spy Thriller 2
Suspense 2
Action 2
Historical Setting 2
Historical Drama 2
Psychological Drama 2
Family Drama 2
Thought-Provoking 2
Atmospheric 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

121

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

5 titles · average score 72

The Man Who Knew Infinity

65

as Vice Master Henry Jackson

Radiator

84

as Leonard

The Other Child

TV show · as Chad Beckett

The Man on the Moor

as Joe Adams

The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff

68

TV show · as Uncle Writes Prompt Thank You Cards

2000s

16 titles · average score 59

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

68

as Grandpa

Two Families

as Don Cataldo

Lewis

80

TV show · as Augustus Mortmaigne

Scoop

53

as Mr. Quincy

The Robinsons

47

TV show · as Hector Robinson

Whatever Love Means

47

as Lord Mountbatten

Doc Martin

84

TV show · as Colonel Gilbert Spencer

Danny Deckchair

61

as Passerby

Spooks

80

TV show · as Bernard Qualtrough

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

41

as Distinguished Gentleman

Waking the Dead

50

TV show · as Dr. Raymond Parke

Happy Days

as Willie

1990s

14 titles · average score 65

A Kind of Hush

72

Story

Milk

as John

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Rex Masters

Breaking the Code

70

as Dilwyn 'Dilly' Knox

Heavy Weather

75

as Lord Tilbury

Kavanagh Q.C.

75

TV show · as Lord Justice Fenwick

Anglo Saxon Attitudes

TV show · as Gerald Middleton

The Camomile Lawn

65

TV show · as Oliver (older)

The Crucifer of Blood

51

as Dr. Watson

Murder Most Horrid

70

TV show · as Reverend Charles Quentin

Treasure Island

69

as Squire Trelawney

Diving In

42

as Richard Anthony

1980s

24 titles · average score 66

Tales from the Crypt

75

TV show · as Malcolm Lawson

A Man for All Seasons

70

as Duke of Norfolk

Turtle Diary

75

as Mr. Johnson

The Bill

77

TV show

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Lord Geoffrey Constable

What Waits Below

35

as Ben Gannon

Cymbeline

66

as Cymbeline

The Monster Club

49

as Busotsky's Father

Magnum, P.I.

82

TV show · as Brigadier Faulkes

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

53

as Inspector Watford

Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger

as Havelock Ellis

The Marquise

as Count Raoul de Vriac

1970s

30 titles · average score 60

Zombie Flesh Eaters

59

as Dr. David Menard

Island of the Fishmen

53

as Edmond Rackham

The Comeback

51

as Psychiatrist

Brutes and Savages

38

as Narrator

Origins of the Mafia

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

The Last Concert

63

as Richard Lasky

Hennessy

52

as Insp. Hollis

The Night Child

57

as Michael Williams

Antony and Cleopatra

72

as Antony

Beyond the Door

52

as Dimitri

Sin

51

as Orestes

The Fifth Day of Peace

56

as John Miller

1960s

21 titles · average score 62

Some Girls Do

56

as Hugh Drummond

Oedipus the King

62

as Creon

The Column

76

as Tiberius

Emma Hamilton

51

as Horatio Nelson

A Twist of Sand

51

as Geoffrey Peace

Deadlier Than the Male

61

as Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond

Danger Route

55

as Jonas Wilde

Khartoum

82

as Colonel Stewart

The Witch

65

as Sergio Logan

Operation Crossbow

59

as Duncan Sandys

The Haunting

78

as Dr. John Markway

Cairo

53

as Ali

1950s

11 titles · average score 65

Never So Few

44

as Capt. Danny De Mortimer

The Four Just Men

TV show · as Captain Bannion

The Buccaneers

68

TV show · as Pegleg

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Walter Egmont

A Party for Christmas

as Michael Firbanks

Saadia

as Lt. Girard

Pride and Prejudice

TV show · as Mr Wickham

Lady in the Fog

60

as Danny McMara - Hit-and-Run Victim

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

86

as Macrae (uncredited)

Hallmark Hall of Fame

85

TV show · as Claudius

Calling Bulldog Drummond

42

as Control Tower Operator (uncredited)