
March 1, 1948 · 78 years old
Karl Johnson is a Welsh actor, appearing on stage, film and television. His most notable role to date is the title role in Derek Jarman's 1993 film Wittgenstein 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.

An overachieving London police sergeant is transferred to a village where the easygoing officers object to his fervor for regulations, all while a string of grisly murders strikes the town.

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician uses his abilities to secure the love of a woman far above his social standing.

J.M.W. Turner, an unconventional British painter, goes down memory lane and recalls his romantic relationship with a seaside landlady and the various accolades he received for his works of art.

The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.

A fictionalized account of the last year of Beethoven's life.

James and his three closest lifelong friends go on an ill-advised trip to the stunning coastal area of Barafundle Bay in West Wales. What follows is a touching and comical adventure dealing with friendship, heroism and love.

Dream Alliance is an unlikely race horse bred by small-town Welsh bartender Jan Vokes. With no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream in the hopes he can compete with the racin...

An artist is suspected of selling a valuable painting to the Nazis, but there is more to the story than meets the eye.

I.R.A. hitman Martin is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He develops a bond with the priest and his niece, but his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.

A chronicle of Terri Hooley's life, a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfast's punk-rock scene.

The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in which British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the Creature determines to track down his ...

Biography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.

Queen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.

An estranged brother and sister begin an intense sexual relationship, behind the curtain of their otherwise normal working-class lives.

A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of...

A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.

When the question is to be or not to be, there is only one answer.

A psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother.