Karl Johnson (born 1 March 1948) is a Welsh actor, who has worked on stage, film and television. His notable roles to date include the title role in Derek Jarman's 1993 film Wittgenstein,^[2] 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.^[3]

Filmography

Film

Television

Selected stage career

• The Seafarer, as James 'Sharky' Harkin, National Theatre, London
• Tales From The Vienna Woods, National Theatre, London
• Scenes from the Big Picture, National Theatre, London
• Hamlet, National Theatre, London^[6]
• The Walls, National Theatre, London
• Cardiff East, National Theatre, London
• The Ends of the Earth, National Theatre, London
• Machine Wreckers, National Theatre, London
• The Shape of The Table, National Theatre, London
• Black Snow, National Theatre, London
• Golden Boy, National Theatre, London
• The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, National Theatre, London
• The Sea, National Theatre, London
• Uncle Vanya, National Theatre, London
• Don Quixote, National Theatre, London
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, National Theatre, London
• The Fawn, National Theatre, London
• Glengarry Glen Ross, National Theatre, London
• Wild Honey, National Theatre, London
• The Rivals, National Theatre, London
• The Mysteries, National Theatre, London
• Animal Farm, National Theatre, London
• Almost Nothing/At The Table, Royal Court Theatre, London
• Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen, Royal Court Theatre, London
• This Is A Chair, Royal Court Theatre, London
• The Night Heron, Royal Court Theatre, London
• Boy Gets Girl, Royal Court Theatre, London
• The Weir, Royal Court Theatre, London
• Been So Long, Royal Court Theatre, London
• Just a Little Less Than Normal, Royal Court Theatre, London
• Sudlow's Dawn, Royal Court Theatre, London
• Irish Eyes and English Tears, Royal Court Theatre, London
• In The Company of Men, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford
• TV Times, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford
• Knight of the Burning Pestle, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford
• Amadeus, Peter Hall Company
• The Country Wife, Centreline Productions
• The Last Yankee, Leicester Haymarket
• Woyzeck, Foco Novo at Lyric Hammersmith
• War Crimes, ICA
• The Dresser, Leatherhead
• Hedda Gabler, Yvonne Arnaud Guildford
• Much Ado About Nothing, Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
• As You Like It, Old Vic
• Vieux Carre, West End
• Frankenstein, National Theatre, London
• Barking in Essex, Wyndham's Theatre