Background
John Robert Milton was born in Bristol, England.
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Milton Johns
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Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Career
He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He was in Coronation Street as Brendan Scott (1991-1993), 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 "Avenue "Econometrica, Softly, Softly, Going Straight, The Good Life, Don"t Wait Up, Butterflies, Campion and Z-Cars.
He played the landlord in The Basil Brush Show (2002-2007).
He also played Mr Cassidy in Murphy"s Mob, an Independent Television children"s television drama series (1982-1985). His character helped to manage the building used by the junior supporters" of the football club, Dunmore United.
In 1972 he starred in the children"s Sunday evening series The Intruder and in 1977, appeared in another children"s series, Midnight Is A Place. Johns also appeared as an Imperial Officer (Captain Bewil) in the 1980 film, The Empire Strikes Back.
He played Perker in the 1985 adaptation of The Pickwick Papers.
In the 1986 television series War and Remembrance, he took the role of Nazi Steamship officer Adolf Eichmann.
