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Acting

Karl Johnson

Career: Active from 1978 to 2023, busiest in 2016 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 16
top three billing

Average score: 69/100

Highest rated: Mum
89/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 58 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Karl Johnson Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
3.6, average 4.8
Scare
1.8, average 2.6
Violence
3.3, average 4.1
Physical Comedy
1.6, average 2.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 6
Psychological Drama 3
Dialogue-Driven 3
Melancholy Tone 2
Thought-Provoking 2
Historical Setting 2
Forbidden Love 2
Literary Adaptation 2
Darkly Humorous 2
Social Commentary 2
Based on True Events 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

92

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

9 titles · average score 68

Truelove

78

TV show · as Tom

The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies

78

TV show · as Bill

Wolf

61

TV show · as Colonel Frink

Halo

68

TV show · as Hierarch Truth (voice)

Suspicion

48

TV show · as Eric Cresswell

Dream Horse

75

as Kerby

National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood

as Richard Jenkins

Too Close

72

TV show · as James de Cadenet

Endgame & Rough for Theatre II

as Nagg

2010s

24 titles · average score 72

The Last Vermeer

65

as Bernard Bakker

Kaleidoscope

58

as John

The Death of Stalin

82

as Dr. Lukomsky

Mum

89

TV show · as Reg

Winter Thaw

84

as Stepanovich

The Carer

65

as Joseph

as The Handler

Good Vibrations

84

as George Hooley

Call the Midwife

82

TV show · as Mr. Masterson

The Deep Blue Sea

71

as Mr. Miller

The Pier

57

as Larry McCarthy

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

87

as De Lacey

2000s

25 titles · average score 65

I Know You Know

63

as Ernie

Merlin

75

TV show · as Taliesin

Lark Rise to Candleford

83

TV show · as Twister Turrill

Dog Altogether

68

as Jack

Hot Fuzz

83

as PC Bob Walker

Four Last Songs

55

as Erico

Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes

as Norman Douglas

The Illusionist

72

as Doctor / Old Man

New Tricks

83

TV show

When I'm Sixty-Four

65

as Billy

77 Beds

as Spiritual Father

Born and Bred

55

TV show · as Alec Rossendale

1990s

11 titles · average score 70

David Copperfield

73

TV show · as Tungay

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

64

as John Deakin

Vanity Fair

76

TV show · as Major Loder

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Derek Lockwood

Dalziel and Pascoe

69

TV show · as Steve Earle

Saint-Ex

47

as Didier Daurat

An Independent Man

TV show · as Bill Rutherford

The Lifeboat

TV show · as Hughie Jones

Wittgenstein

76

as Ludwig Wittgenstein

Close My Eyes

69

as Colin

Let Him Have It

79

as Parris

1980s

15 titles · average score 70

Rules of Engagement

TV show · as Dave Gillespie

Agatha Christie's Poirot

84

TV show · as Saunders

A Tale of Two Cities

64

TV show · as Solomon Pross/'John Barsad'

The Play on One

TV show · as Charles

A Prayer for the Dying

54

as Fitzgerald

Prick Up Your Ears

68

as Douglas Orton

ScreenPlay

TV show · as P.C. Taffy Hughes

The Mysteries

TV show · as Jesus / Abel

The Bill

77

TV show

Night Court

74

TV show · as Dave Costanza

Sons and Lovers

TV show · as Paul Morel

Bergerac

69

TV show · as Henry Morant

1970s

7 titles · average score 67

The Tempest

60

as Ariel, an airy spirit

Only Connect

as Colin

Shoestring

76

TV show · as Dennis Philips

TV show · as Colin

Jubilee

66

as Sphinx

as Geoff

Chips with Everything

as Wilfe Seaford

1960s

1 title · average score 61

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Wilf Seaford