Celia Johnson
Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE (18 December 1908 – 25 April 1982) was a British actress. She began her stage acting career in 1928, and subsequently achieved success in West End and Broadway productions. She also appeared in several films, including the romantic drama Brief Encounter (1945), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for BAFTA Awards on five occasions, and won twice, for her work in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), and for the television production Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, a BBC Play for Today broadcast in 1973.
Much of her later work was for television, and she continued performing in theatre for the rest of her life. She died suddenly from a stroke at age 73.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5808 |
| Birthday | 1908-12-18 |
| Place of Birth | Richmond, Surrey, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Celia Elizabeth Johnson, Elizabeth Johnson, Селия Джонсон, |
1945
Brief Encounter
7.702/700
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuo...
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Brief Encounter
1978
Les Misérables
7.188/40
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
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Les Misérables
1969
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
6.913/127
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with he...
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1953
The Captain's Paradise
5.609/23
Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather...
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The Captain's Paradise
1944
This Happy Breed
7.139/61
A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.
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This Happy Breed
1952
The Holly and the Ivy
6.484/31
An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.
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The Holly and the Ivy
1971
The Cherry Orchard
7/1
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate aft...
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The Cherry Orchard
1955
A Kid for Two Farthings
6.732/28
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tel...
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A Kid for Two Farthings
1950
The Astonished Heart
4.833/6
Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonor...
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The Astonished Heart
1952
I Believe in You
6.8/10
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers an...
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I Believe in You
1957
The Good Companions
7/1
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
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The Good Companions
1942
In Which We Serve
6.772/101
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship’s first and only comman...
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In Which We Serve
1941
Letter from Home
7/2
Two evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor, telling them of her life in Blitz-era London. Glimps...
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Letter from Home
1974
Love Affair
0/0
A lonely, elderly lady strikes up a friendship with a driving instructor.
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Love Affair
1970
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
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The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed...
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The Cellar and the Almond Tree
1977
The Emperor's New Hat
0/0
For 51 years, the Comtesse has bought a new hat to celebrate her wedding anniyear, she invites her granddaughter Sylvie to the ceremony.
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The Emperor's New Hat
1943
Dear Octopus
8/1
Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothi...
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Dear Octopus
1980
Staying On
7/2
A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s.
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Staying On
1980
The Hostage Tower
4.75/8
A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel Tower and hold as hostage one of its visitors, th...
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The Hostage Tower
1978
Romeo and Juliet
7.571/7
Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil ha...
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Romeo and Juliet
1975
Lloyd George Knew My Father
9/1
When Lady Sheila Boothroyd hears that the planning authorities are determined to drive a road through her grounds, she announces her intention to kill...
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Lloyd George Knew My Father
1973
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
0/0
Mrs Palfrey tries hard to be accepted by the other residents at the Claremont. But then she meets Ludo and a real friendship begins.
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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
1942
We Serve
0/0
Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.
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We Serve
1981
All's Well That Ends Well
6.5/4
Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, an...
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All's Well That Ends Well
1976
The Dame of Sark
0/0
1976 play. During the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands, Dame Sybil Hathaway comes up against her invading masters.
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The Dame of Sark
1951
A Bolt of Lightning
7/1
The story of James Otis who was a part of the American revolution. He contested in court the right of the British to search colonists' homes.
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A Bolt of Lightning
1981
The Potting Shed
0/0
The patriarch of the family is dying and James, his estranged son, appears unexpectedly. He can remember nothing about a mysterious moment that occurr...
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