John Joseph Henshaw is an English actor, best known for his roles as Ken Dixon the landlord in Early Doors, Wilf Bradshaw in Born and Bred and PC Roy Bramwell in The Cops.

[1] Other credits include Nice Guy Eddie, When Saturday Comes plus appearances in The Royle Family, Last of the Summer Wine, Life on Mars and the comedy series Early Doors.

In 2010 he played Mr Pony in Terry Pratchett's Going Postal and in 2011 he portrayed the character of John Holt, one of the original founding fathers of the Co-operative movement, in a feature film The Rochdale Pioneers.In 2012, he appeared in Downton Abbey as shopkeeper Jos Tufton.

He also played the role of Harry, a mentor and friend to the main character, in Ken Loach's 2012 Scottish comedy-drama The Angels' Share and Danny in Chris Shepherd's 2013 film The Ringer.

[3] In 2017, he appeared in the BBC series Father Brown as Barney Butterfield episode 5.12 "The Theatre of the Invisible" and returned to playing Ken the landlord in the Early Doors live stage show.