Wil Johnson

ACTOR, PRODUCER

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Wilbert "Wil" Johnson (born 1965) is an English actor, who has had notable television roles in Waking the Dead and Babyfather, and on stage in Othello..Wil Johnson was born in Muswell Hill, London. His mother was a dressmaker and his father a carpenter. Johnson had no interest in acting while he was at drama school; he had a speech impediment and had regular panic attacks. After he filled in a role for an absent actor, he changed his mind.Johnson's first professional acting role came in the play Four Seasons at the 1985 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. For the rest of the 1980s he made minor appearances in television series such as Casualty and London's Burning, before playing detective Stevie Johnson in the London Weekend Television series Anna Lee. From 1994 to 1995 he played the supporting role of Detective Constable Skelton in Cracker. Between roles, Johnson worked for a local undertakers, driving the hearse and acting as a pallbearer. At one funeral, a mourner recognised him from Cracker and asked for his autograph. In 2000, he appeared in the BBC television pilot Waking the Dead, as Detective Sergeant Spencer Jordan, a member of a specialised police unit tasked with investigating "cold cases". Waking the Dead returned for a complete series in 2001, and Johnson has been a main cast member since. From 2000 to 2002, he appeared as Steve Robinson in Paul Abbott's popular drama series Clocking Off. From 2001 to 2002, he appeared as a main cast member in two series of the BBC's Babyfather. In 2004, Johnson played the title character in the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company's Othello. He also played Marcus Kirby in the BBC Drama Waterloo Road. He departed in the second half of Series. In 2011 Johnson starred as Gangstar Boss Big Mike in Anuvahood - IMDb Mini Biography By: Fahmi

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Wil Johnson’s flixes, followed by BritBox compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Wil Johnson on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1993 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Wil Johnson movies released per year from 1994 till 2021.

Top Genres

Wil Johnson works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Crime Genre flixes. 54% of Wil Johnson movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Wil Johnson worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Wil Johnson has worked on is 6.6.

6.6 / 10

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Crime,Drama,Mystery
Cracker (1993)

Dr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald is a criminal psychologist. He is rather anti-social and obnoxious but he has a gift for solving crimes. Thus he is employed as a consultant by the Manchester Police.

8.5/10100 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Mystery
Waking the Dead (2000)

Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd (Trevor Eve) is the leader of a Police team which investigates unsolved murders using modern technology.

7.9/10100 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

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.

7.6/10118 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

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 ...

6.9/10120 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Brilliant young general Macbeth pulls off a glorious victory in battle before returning to an indolent court where honours are dispensed by whim. Spurred on by prophesying drifters and an ...

5.4/10121 min

Available in 15 platform(s).

Drama,Musical
Babymother (1998)

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 project with little support, the...

5.1/1082 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Horror,Thriller
Hard Shoulder (2012)

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 ...

3.6/1082 min

Available in 1 platform(s).