Milton Johns

Milton Johns born 13 May 1938 is an English actor whose thin features and talent for obsequious or oily characters has often influenced the many television parts he has received He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Johns was born in Bristol Gloucestershire He was in Coronation Street as Brendan Scott 199193 the shopkeeper who died of a heart attack while pedalling along the eponymous cobbled street Other roles have included parts in Poldark Born and Bred Ever Decreasing Circles Home to Roost Dempsey and Makepeace Murder Most English Shoestring Yes Minister Some Mothers Do Ave Em Softly Softly Going Straight The Good Life Dont Wait Up Butterflies Campion and ZCars He played the landlord in The Basil Brush Show 200207 Johns also played jobsworth Mr Cassidy in Murphys Mob an ITV childrens television drama series 198285 His character helped to manage the building used by the junior supporters of the football club Dunmore United Johns has appeared in Doctor Who on several occasions as Theodore Benik in The Enemy of the World Guy Crayford in The Android Invasion and Castellan Kelner in The Invasion of Time In 1972 he starred in the childrens Sunday evening series The Intruder and in 1977 appeared in another childrens series Midnight Is A Place Johns also appeared as an Imperial Officer Captain Bewil in the 1980 Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back He played Perker in the 1985 adaptation of The Pickwick Papers In the 1986 television series War and Remembrance Johns took the role of the senior Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann