Biography
Richard Keith Johnson (30 July 1927 – 5 June 2015) was an English actor, writer and producer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Johnson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
FantastiCozzi
2016
as (archive footage)
A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.
The Man Who Knew Infinity
2016
as Vice Master Henry Jackson
Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathe...
Beloved Days
2015
In 1970 the people of Karmi in Cyprus participate in an unprecedented experience: the shooting of the film "Beloved", with Hollywood cast and crew. Th...
Radiator
2014
as Leonard
A moving, blackly comic drama about the strains in coping with ageing parents.
The Man on the Moor
2013
as Joe Adams
There's something in the wind up on the high moor
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2008
as Grandpa
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of t...
The Raven
2007
as Narrator / The Raven (voice)
In this update to Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale, it's time for the biggest gay party of the year. Unfortunately, the host has chosen the site of the ...
Two Families
2007
as Don Cataldo
A young man struggles to escape from the ties of his Mafia family upbringing.
Scoop
2006
as Mr. Quincy
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Wallis & Edward
2005
as Stanley Baldwin
In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around t...
Whatever Love Means
2005
as Lord Mountbatten
Strap in for a rollercoaster ride through the emotional worlds of love and royalty in an original WE Channel movie exploring the enduring, 30-year rom...
Danny Deckchair
2003
as Passerby
Based on a true story, the tale of a cement truck driver named Danny, whose long awaited vacation is cancelled thanks to his scheming girlfriend, Trud...
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
2001
as Distinguished Gentleman
Orphaned heiress, English aristocrat and intrepid archaeologist, Lara Croft, embarks on a dangerous quest to retrieve the two halves of an ancient art...
The Whistle-Blower
2001
as Sir Alastair Montgomery
A bank employee, Laura Tracey, places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting irregularities in the firm's overseas accounts to the Na...
Happy Days
2000
as Willie
An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's absurdist drama. An ordinary woman lives her humdrum life half-buried in a pile of dirt; her husband is partially vi...
A Kind of Hush
1999
Story
Six teens who were traumatized by child abuse early in their lives come together to form a gang that ultimately plots revenge against the ones who com...
Milk
1999
as John
Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly dies...
Breaking the Code
1996
as Dilwyn 'Dilly' Knox
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking ...
Heavy Weather
1995
as Lord Tilbury
At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planni...
Duel of Hearts
1992
as Lord Belgrave
Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets...
The Crucifer of Blood
1991
as Dr. Watson
A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen t...
Diving In
1990
as Richard Anthony
A high school diver fights his fear of heights and diving to get onto the team. He gets onto the team, only to find that he must dive the high platfor...
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
1990
as Gen. Halmsden
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming follows the exciting life of a dashing young Ian Fleming, the mastermind behind the highly successful James Bond books ...
Treasure Island
1990
as Squire Trelawney
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led...
Voice of the Heart
1989
as David Cunningham
Mini-series based on the novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Lady Frances Cunningham, a writer of historical biographies, becomes heavily involved with ...
A Man for All Seasons
1988
as Duke of Norfolk
Story of Sir Thomas More, who refused to accept the spiritual leadership of Henry VIII, and faces death as he struggles to remain loyal to his integri...
Castaway
1986
as Lawyer (uncredited)
Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving ta...
Castaway
1986
Executive Producer
Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving ta...
Lady Jane
1986
as The Earl of Arundel
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son, Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep E...
Turtle Diary
1985
as Mr. Johnson
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd,...
Turtle Diary
1985
Producer
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd,...
What Waits Below
1984
as Ben Gannon
The US military is running a test for a special type of radio transmitter, to be used to communicate with submarines, in a deep system of underground ...
The Biko Inquest
1984
as Dr. Hersch
Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important ...
The Biko Inquest
1984
Executive Producer
Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important ...
The Aerodrome
1983
as Air Commander
In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the construction of a heavily guarded, mysterious airport. BBC a...
Cymbeline
1982
as Cymbeline
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who go...
The Best of Sex and Violence
1982
as (archive footage)
Hosted by John Carradine, this tape is a compilation of scenes from and previews for various exploitation films.
The Monster Club
1981
as Busotsky's Father
A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place...
The Marquise
1980
as Count Raoul de Vriac
The only period comedy written by Noel Coward. France, 1736. Two distinguished families are celebrating the engagement of their children. The young c...
Haywire
1980
as Kenneth Wagg
Based on the autobiography of Brooke Hayward, daughter of famous Broadway producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan, who grows up in the g...
Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger
1980
as Havelock Ellis
The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control clinic during World War I and was tried in court u...
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
1980
as Inspector Watford
An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.
The Great Alligator
1979
as Prophet Jameson
Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a giant alligator and stalks them.
The Flame Is Love
1979
as Narrator
In this melodrama from Barbara Cartland's 1975 bestseller, a turn-of-the-century American heiress, while en route to her betrothal to an English duke,...
Before and After
1979
as Waiter Les
Patty Duke loses weight and discovers her husband has been cheating on her.
Zombie Flesh Eaters
1979
as Dr. David Menard
On the Caribbean island of Matul, white doctor David Menard is trying to stem the tide of cannibal zombies that are returning from the dead. Arriving...
Island of the Fishmen
1979
as Edmond Rackham
After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a str...
Brutes and Savages
1978
as Narrator
Fascinated by forbidden rituals and ceremonies, world explorer Arthur Davis takes a crew with hidden cameras to Africa and South America to secretly r...
The Comeback
1978
as Psychiatrist
A singer holes up at a sinister estate to write new songs for his act. His ex-wife is brutally murdered, and the killer may be stalking him next.
Across a Crowded Room
1978
as Fergus Mariner
Two egotistical superstars develop a grand passion which threatens to disrupt a West End theatre production.
The Four Feathers
1978
as Abou Fatma
The fifth filming of the adventure classic about a British soldier in the 1880s who fights to regain his honor after being given four white feathers, ...
The Last Concert
1976
as Richard Lasky
Love story of a young woman Stella who is dying of leukemia. A man is mistaken for a family member at the hospital and is informed by a doctor the dia...
Aces High
1976
as Major Lyle
The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By...
Hennessy
1975
as Insp. Hollis
Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Thou...
Hennessy
1975
Original Story
Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Thou...
The Night Child
1975
as Michael Williams
The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around her neck, she is possessed by the spirit of a dea...
Antony and Cleopatra
1975
as Antony
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Moses the Lawgiver
1974
as Erzähler-Stimme
The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Originally a TV M...
Beyond the Door
1974
as Dimitri
Jessica Barrett, wife and mother of two young children, begins to show signs of demonic possession while pregnant with her third child. As she seeks h...
Shakespeare or Bust
1973
as Himself
Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.
A Marriage
1972
as Richard
A columnist throws a dinner party. One of the guests is his mistress, who is his research assistant. He tells his wife he had been having an affair an...
Sin
1971
as Orestes
When Orestes returns to his Greek island homeland after several years in London to settle his late father's estate, he begins an affair with Elena, wh...
Julius Caesar
1970
as Cassius
All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ide...
The 5th Day of Peace
1970
as John Miller
Based on a true story. Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are put in an Allied POW camp. When a rigid and militaristic German colonel ...
Some Girls Do
1969
as Hugh Drummond
A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner. A British agent ...
Emma Hamilton
1968
as Horatio Nelson
In the second half of the 18th century, the young shepherdess Emma accidentally catches the eye of the English painter George Romney. She becomes his ...
The Column
1968
as comandantul roman Tiberius
The end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
A Twist of Sand
1968
as Geoffrey Peace
A former British Naval Officer now makes his living by smuggling goods around the Mediterranean. After being forced to dump his cargo after nearly bei...
Oedipus the King
1968
as Creon
This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invo...
Danger Route
1967
as Jonas Wilde
Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new ass...
The Rover
1967
as Real
A former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy when she falls in love with a French naval...
Deadlier Than the Male
1967
as Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond
British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.
The Witch
1966
as Sergio Logan
A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces ...
Khartoum
1966
as Colonel Stewart
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from...
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965
as Jemmy
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.
Operation Crossbow
1965
as Duncan Sandys
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between Ge...
The Pumpkin Eater
1964
as Giles
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physi...
The Haunting
1963
as Dr. John Markway
Dr. John Markway invites three distinct individuals to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate gu...
80,000 Suspects
1963
as Dr. Steven Monks
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
Cairo
1963
as Ali
An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum. MGM remake of Asphalt Jungle set in Egypt.
Never So Few
1959
as Capt. Danny De Mortimer
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.
Saadia
1953
as Lt. Girard
Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful outcast in the community, who has convinced her she...
Lady in the Fog
1952
as Danny McMara - Hit-and-Run Victim
In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freak accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more suspi...
Calling Bulldog Drummond
1951
as Control Tower Operator (uncredited)
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951
as Macrae (uncredited)
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship a...
Beyond the Door: 35 Years Later
N/A
as Himself
Mini documentary on the making of Beyond the Door.