Johnny Harris
Johnny Harris dropped out of school to pursue his dream of professional boxing but ended up becoming a well-known film and TV actor instead. After winning a junior boxing title and spending several years in Paris, Harris returned to England with a newfound interest in acting. He worked his way up from small parts in minor theater productions to cameo roles in television series like the long-running British soap opera "EastEnders" and "The Bill," which follows a group of tough London police officers. He followed up his recurring role as DC Sanders on the first season of the crime series "Whitechapel" with a breakout performance in the critically-acclaimed miniseries "This is England '86." The show, a small-screen sequel to director Shane Meadow's influential film "This is England," explored the lives of a group of working-class teens at the height of Thatcherite England; Harris' brutal portryal of Mick, Lol's (Vicky McClure) cruel and abusive father, was nominated for numerous awards. In addition to his television success, Harris has enjoyed a steady film career; he won praise for his role as a dangerous pimp in the crime thriller "London to Brighton," and appeared in Terry Gilliam's high-profile "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus." In 2011 he was cast as Paul, a mysterious man with the ability to see vengeful spirits, in the supernatural TV drama "The Fades."
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Johnny Harris
Filmography
Movies
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75% | No Score Yet | A House in Jerusalem | Michael (Character) | - | 2023 |
96% |
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Jawbone |
Jimmy McCabe (Character), Writer, Producer |
- | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Once Upon a Murdoch Christmas | Crabtree (Character) | - | 2016 |
18% |
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Monsters: Dark Continent | Noah Frater (Character) | - | 2014 |
19% |
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The Last Days on Mars | Robert Irwin (Character) | $23.8K | 2013 |
49% |
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Welcome to the Punch | Dean Warns (Character) | $3.4K | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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Moving Day | Dennis (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie | Nidon (Voice) | - | 2010 |
72% |
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Black Death | Mold (Character) | $22.0K | 2010 |
14% |
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Huge | Warren (Character) | - | 2010 |
43% |
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Dorian Gray | James Vane (Character) | - | 2009 |
22% |
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Daylight Robbery | Terry (Character) | - | 2008 |
71% |
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The Cottage | Smoking Joe (Character) | - | 2008 |
68% |
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London to Brighton | Derek (Character) | - | 2006 |
71% |
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Gangster No. 1 | Derek (Character) | $30.9K | 2000 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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92% | 80% | A Gentleman in Moscow | Osip Glebnikov (Character) | 2024 |
42% | 38% | Great Expectations | Magwitch (Character) | 2023 |
No Score Yet | 38% | Without Sin |
Charles Stone (Character), Executive Producer |
2022 |
88% | 82% | The Salisbury Poisonings | Charlie Rowley (Character) | 2020 |
No Score Yet | 80% | A Christmas Carol | Franklin Scrooge (Character) | 2019 |
68% | 22% | Troy: Fall of a City | Agamemnon (Character) | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | From Darkness | Unknown (Character) | 2015 |
84% | 65% | Fortitude | Ronnie Morgan (Character) | 2015 |
82% | 90% | The Fades | Neil (Character) | 2011 |
No Score Yet | 100% | This Is England '86 | Mick (Character) | 2010 |
75% | 85% | Whitechapel | Unknown (Character) | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Holby City | Sammy Briscoe (Character) | 2000 |