Wil Johnson

Wil Johnson

Born: April 18, 1965
in Haringey, London, England, UK

Movies for Wil Johnson...

Tell No Lies
Title: Tell No Lies
Character: Detective Wright
Released: January 18, 2024
Type: Movie
When his wife goes missing, a desperate husband turns to law enforcement for help, only to discover his innocence is being questioned by everyone.
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Revelations
Title: Revelations
Character: Thom
Released: September 16, 2022
Type: Movie
A young man attends the funeral of his estranged mother and remembers a few moments that defined their relationship. A cinematic short film about family, grief, and acceptance.
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Title: House of the Dragon
Character: Ser Vaemond Velaryon
Released: August 21, 2022
Type: TV
The Targaryen dynasty is at the absolute apex of its power, with more than 15 dragons under their yoke. Most empires crumble from such heights. In the case of the Targaryens, their slow fall begins when King Viserys breaks with a century of tradition by naming his daughter Rhaenyra heir to the Iron Throne. But when Viserys later fathers a son, the court is shocked when Rhaenyra retains her status as his heir, and seeds of division sow friction across the realm.
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Title: The Larkins
Character: Old Reg
Released: October 10, 2021
Type: TV
Set in the late 1950’s, The Larkins follows the golden-hearted wheeler dealer Pop Larkin and his wife Ma, together with their six children, including the beautiful Mariette, as they bask in their idyllic and beautiful patch of paradise in Kent.
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Title: Carnival Row
Character: Puck Butcher
Released: August 29, 2019
Type: TV
In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective investigates a series of gruesome murders leveled against the fairy population. During his investigation, the detective becomes the prime suspect and must find the real killer to clear his name.
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Black Smoke Rising
Title: Black Smoke Rising
Character: Simon
Released: September 5, 2018
Type: Movie
After the tragic death of his brother Rafe, Jonah, alcoholic blues singer, discovers that he asks him in his last wishes to disperse his ashes. Only downside, Rafe has made a real treasure hunt that takes him on the roads... And the spirit of his brother is traveling with him.
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Dumar Volume Two
Title: Dumar Volume Two
Character: Emmerson
Released: July 18, 2018
Type: Movie
Fund Manager 'Dumar' is on a personal quest against his employer, a corrupt fund manager whom has framed him for fraud, however unknown to both parties they both have ulterior motive.
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Macbeth
Title: Macbeth
Character: Captain
Released: March 13, 2018
Type: Movie
Entirely shot on green screen, Shakespeare’s Macbeth has been reinvented by director Kit Monkman (The Knife That Killed Me) in an exciting new film adaptation. Starring Mark Rowley, (The Last Kingdom, Luther). Monkman’s unique adaptation successfully bridges the gap between theatre and film to create a wholly new type of imaginative space. This radical new adaptation puts the audience’s engagement with the story centre-stage, amplifying the theatrical context of the original and creating truly innovative and thrilling cinematic vistas, whilst maintaining the language and themes of Shakespeare’s original play. Using background matte painting and computer modelling to generate the world in which the action plays out, the green screen allows Monkman to create his vision of a multi-tiered globe in which the characters play out their various fates.
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National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Title: National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Character: Claudius
Released: April 20, 2017
Type: Movie
Against the backdrop of Hamlet, two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take centre stage. As the young double act stumble their way in and out of the action of Shakespeare’s iconic drama, they become increasingly out of their depth as their version of the story unfolds.
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King Lear
Title: King Lear
Character: Earl of Kent
Released: July 11, 2016
Type: Movie
Don Warrington stars as the tragic monarch in this acclaimed version of the Shakespeare play recorded at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.
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Title: Outlander
Character: Joe Abernathy
Released: August 9, 2014
Type: TV
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
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Fedz
Title: Fedz
Character: Trevor McBride
Released: March 13, 2013
Type: Movie
In London, just a few years from now, the government have enforced a curfew - no civilians on the streets after dark. A terrorist group have threatened to release a killer virus. Time is running out for the FEDZ.
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Dead End
Title: Dead End
Character: Carl Foster
Released: March 8, 2012
Type: Movie
Carl Foster takes off on a well-deserved weekend break with his family knowing only too well that focus on work has impacted his relationship with his wife, young son, and teenage step-daughter. But after a short but restful break in the journey Carl awakens to find himself tied and bound in an old roadside diner, his family trussed and gagged next to him, and a disparate group of dirty, disheveled, vagrant-like undesirables keeping them captive. Only time will reveal who they are and what they want, but things are not everything they might seem.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Emmet Peterson
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Title: Vera
Character: Gary Whenchurch
Released: May 1, 2011
Type: TV
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
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Anuvahood
Title: Anuvahood
Character: Mike
Released: March 18, 2011
Type: Movie
Kenneth (who likes to call himself Kay) begins to realise he's just another wannabe bad boy... even less than a loser in fact. After quitting his job at Laimsbury's, Kay vows to become a respected gangster... or cry trying. A pulls-no-punches, coming-of-age story, centering on one directionless hopeless "shotter", who finds his true worth in the face of urban adversity.
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In a Better World
Title: In a Better World
Released: August 26, 2010
Type: Movie
The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
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Pimp
Title: Pimp
Character: Byron
Released: May 21, 2010
Type: Movie
A week in the life of Woody; a Soho pimp, as seen through the eyes of concealed documentary cameras: A week which spirals brutally out of control.
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Title: Moving On
Character: Pete Jackson
Released: May 18, 2009
Type: TV
Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.
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Adulthood
Title: Adulthood
Character: Big Man
Released: June 16, 2008
Type: Movie
After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.
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Deadmeat
Title: Deadmeat
Character: Barry
Released: September 12, 2007
Type: Movie
Ex-con Clarkie is betrayed by his best friend, he has no one to turn to as he tracks down his brother's killers. The war spills onto London's mean streets. If Clarkie makes one false move he is...DEADMEAT.
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Title: Waterloo Road
Released: March 9, 2006
Type: TV
Waterloo Road is a UK television drama series the first broadcast was in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Originally set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, England, the location of the show was moved to the former Greenock Academy in Greenock, Scotland in 2012. The series focuses on the lives of the school's teachers and students, and confronts social issues such as extramarital affairs, abortion, divorce, child abuse, and suicide. Waterloo Road is produced by Shed Productions, the company responsible for Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives.
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Emotional Backgammon
Title: Emotional Backgammon
Character: John
Released: August 29, 2003
Type: Movie
John thinks life is just perfect. He's in what he considers a solid relationship with girlfriend Mary and his job as a tailor suits him down to the ground. To put the icing on the cake he's about to ask Mary to marry him over the dinner which John has cooked especially. With the ring ready for Mary's hand, John is unprepared for Mary announcing that she's leaving him to find herself.
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South West 9
Title: South West 9
Character: Freddy
Released: October 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Five very different characters are thrown together in one weird, mashed up day. It started out like any other, but 24 hours later everything had changed. South West 9 takes you through the windscreen of the new millenium. The death of idealism, capitalism, religion and hippies. Even the drugs don't work anymore. The 'summer of love' generation have come down and they're ready to riot. Seattle. Stockholm. Paris. Genoa. May Day riots.
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: DS Spencer Jordan
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Buried Treasure
Title: Buried Treasure
Character: Luke
Released: April 13, 2001
Type: Movie
Harry Jenkins is a self-made business man, who one day receives a message that his only daughter has died in a car crash. Last time he saw his daughter was at his wife's funeral. When trying to deal with his daughter's affairs, he finds out he is a grandfather of a nine-year-old girl, named Saffron. Since he is her only relative, social services hands over Saffron to him. At first he tries to get rid of her, but he soon finds out that they share more than his daughter, Saffron's mother. They take a trip from Manchester to London, to find Saffron's estranged father, but they find so much more
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Native
Title: Native
Character: Tyronne
Released: June 20, 2000
Type: Movie
“A drama set in the sixties in which 11-year-old West Indian boy James is caught between two cultures.” - Radio Times (2000)
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Title: Clocking Off
Character: Steve Robinson
Released: January 23, 2000
Type: TV
How much do you know about the person working next to you? From the outside, life at Mackintosh Textiles appears to run smoothly, but in a community with so many secrets to hide, things are far from straightforward. In six powerful, self-contained dramas, everyday life is fractured by tumultuous marriages, snatched passions, disappearing husbands and gang harassment.
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Babymother
Title: Babymother
Character: Byron - her Babyfather
Released: September 11, 1998
Type: Movie
A single mother determined to make it as a singer puts together an all-girl reggae group named Neeta, Sweeta, & Nastie with her friends. Living in a housing estate with little support, the odds are obviously against her. Emotionally she struggles too as she learns at her mother's death that her actual mother is the woman she had thought was her older sister. With the help of a female agent, the group starts to get some exposure and rises above their setting.
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Go West Young Man
Title: Go West Young Man
Released: November 14, 1996
Type: Movie
A black father and son discuss the ways in which popular myths have shaped their everyday experiences. Go West Young Man, created on an Amiga home computer, parallels their dialogue with a montage of historical moments that have influenced Western perceptions of black masculinity.
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Title: Anna Lee
Character: Stevie Johnson
Released: February 27, 1994
Type: TV
Anna Lee is a British television series produced by Brian Eastman and Carnival Films for London Weekend Television. Following a 1993 pilot, five two-hour programmes were produced in 1994, loosely based on the detective novels of Liza Cody. These were broadcast in the U.S. on the A&E cable network. The title role was played by Imogen Stubbs. Music was by Anne Dudley with theme song "Sister, Sister" and some additional songs by Luciana Caporaso. Considerable alterations were made from the original books so that sometimes they seem to share only their titles. According to actor Ken Stott's webpage:
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Title: Cracker
Character: Skelton
Released: September 27, 1993
Type: TV
The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.
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The Track
Title: The Track
Character: Nate
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, one night's stay at a five star hotel is unexpectedly donated to 'The Track', a day shelter for rough sleepers. A place where our lead Grace, a volunteer hands out the shower, food and clothing tokens whilst constantly mesmerized by a waxed orange presenter on the communal TV scolding a £250,000 tattered house, unoccupied. When one loyal member, Nate an ex-teacher is gifted this grand night's stay he is painfully turned away by a very unhelpful receptionist because of incorrect personal information. Grace unexpectedly comes across him and in a rash but brave panic calls on her boyfriend to take him into their nearby flat, but it might be too late as the cold encapsulates his body and becomes his worst enemy. In support of Shelter, West London Mission, Ark Resettlement Services & The Vineyard.
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Title: Starting Out
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Starting Out is an Australian television soap opera made for the Nine Network by the Reg Grundy Organisation in 1983. The series was the network's replacement for The Young Doctors and was set at a medical college with an emphasis on young people getting their first experience of living away from home and leading independent lives. The youthful cast included Gary Sweet, David Clencie, Nikki Coghill, Tottie Goldsmith and Peter O'Brien, whilst more experienced cast members complementing the young leads included Maurie Fields, Gerard Maguire, Jill Forster and Anne Phelan. The series failed to gain sufficient ratings and was quickly cancelled and removed from the schedules. The unscreened episodes were screened out-of-ratings in late 1983.