Career
His most notable role to date is the title role in Derek Jarman"s 1993 film Wittgenstein. He is also well known for the roles of Cato the Younger in the television drama series Rome and of Twister Turrill in the British Broadcasting Corporation costume drama series Lark Rise to Candleford. Johnson is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Birmingham City University.
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 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 television 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, International Cooperation Administration The Dresser, Leatherhead Hedda Gabler, Yvonne Arnaud Guildford Much Ado About Nothing, Open Air Theatre, Regent"s Park As You Like lieutenant, Old Vic Vieux Carre, West End Frankenstein, National Theatre, London Barking in Essex, Wyndham"s Theatre Rainbow (1973 - 1974) Small Island Lark Rise to Candleford New Tricks The Chatterley Affair Nostradamus Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire Why We Went to War Midsomer Murders Rome Ray"s Daze Born and Bred The Mayor of Casterbridge Without Motive David Copperfield Vanity Fair The Temptation of Franz Schubert Wing and a Prayer An Independent Manitoba As You Like lieutenant Catherine the Great When I"m 64 Sons and Lovers Call the Midwife.
