Noel Johnson

This article is about the English actor. For the American athlete, see Noel Johnson (athlete).

Noel Johnson
Born	Noel Frank Johnson 28 December 1916(1916-12-28) Birmingham, West Midlands, England
Died	1 October 1999(1999-10-01) (aged 82) Llandough, Wales
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1950-1997

Noel Johnson (28 December 1916 – 1 October 1999) was an English actor.

He was the radio voice of Dick Barton special agent on BBC radio and Dan Dare pilot of the future over Radio Luxembourg.

His assured upper class voice cadence made him ideal for characters of that type, notably in the BBC Radio 4 dramatic adaptation of A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell. This was broadcast as 26 1-hour episodes between 1978 and 1981; Johnson played the novel sequence's narrator Nicholas Jenkins, while the younger Nicholas was played by Gareth Johnson in the first 18 episodes. In the last quarter of the series - in which Jenkins is in late middle-age - Johnson plays Jenkins alone.

His movie career included small roles in Defence of the Realm, Withnail & I, and For Your Eyes Only, and numerous television dramas, including Dixon of Dock Green, Coronation Street, Out of the Unknown, Doomwatch, Death of an Expert Witness, Colditz, Rumpole of the Bailey, Doctor Who, Inspector Morse and A Touch of Frost, amongst many others.

Selected filmography

• Frenzy (1972)
• The Swordsman (1974)
• Frightmare (1974)
• Royal Flash (1975)

External links

• Noel Johnson at the Internet Movie Database
• Noel Johnson obituary

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Name	Johnson, Noel
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Date of birth	28 December 1916
Place of birth	Birmingham, West Midlands, England
Date of death	1 October 1999
Place of death	Llandough, Wales