Celia Johnson

Celia Johnson

Born: December 18, 1908
Died: April 26, 1982
in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
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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.

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All's Well That Ends Well
Title: All's Well That Ends Well
Character: Countess of Rousillon
Released: January 4, 1981
Type: Movie
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, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her?
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Staying On
Title: Staying On
Character: Lucy Smalley
Released: December 28, 1980
Type: Movie
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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The Hostage Tower
Title: The Hostage Tower
Character: Mrs. Wheeler
Released: September 19, 1980
Type: Movie
A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel Tower and hold as hostage one of its visitors, the U.S. President's mother, while the head of a UN security force tries to stop them.
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Les Misérables
Title: Les Misérables
Character: Sister Simplice
Released: December 27, 1978
Type: Movie
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Romeo & Juliet
Title: Romeo & Juliet
Character: Nurse
Released: December 3, 1978
Type: Movie
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 hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
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Title: BBC Television Shakespeare
Character: Nurse
Released: December 3, 1978
Type: TV
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
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The Dame of Sark
Title: The Dame of Sark
Character: Sybil Hathaway
Released: December 29, 1976
Type: Movie
1976 play. During the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands, Dame Sybil Hathaway comes up against her invading masters.
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Lloyd George Knew My Father
Title: Lloyd George Knew My Father
Character: Lady Sheila Boothroyd
Released: August 19, 1975
Type: Movie
When Lady Sheila Boothroyd hears that the planning authorities are determined to drive a road through her grounds, she announces her intention to kill herself at the precise moment that the bulldozers start on their shameful work. As the hour strikes and the bulldozers' roar is heard, her husband General Sir William Boothroyd enters in full regimental regalia, while his old ex-army servant sounds the Last Post. Then, as the whole family stands stricken, the door opens...
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Love Affair
Title: Love Affair
Character: Mrs Hobbish
Released: July 3, 1974
Type: Movie
A lonely, elderly lady strikes up a friendship with a driving instructor.
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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Title: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Character: Mrs. Palfrey
Released: October 18, 1973
Type: Movie
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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The Cherry Orchard
Title: The Cherry Orchard
Character: Madame Ranevskaya
Released: December 19, 1971
Type: Movie
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 after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
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The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Title: The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Released: March 4, 1970
Type: Movie
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 to obtain from her the keys to her wine-cellar, which are needed for a celebration dinner. First shown in 1970, this play charts the transition of dictatorial power in the 20th century.
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Title: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Character: Miss Mackay
Released: February 24, 1969
Type: Movie
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
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The Good Companions
Title: The Good Companions
Character: Miss Trant
Released: April 22, 1957
Type: Movie
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
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A Kid for Two Farthings
Title: A Kid for Two Farthings
Character: Joanna
Released: August 15, 1955
Type: Movie
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 tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.
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The Captain's Paradise
Title: The Captain's Paradise
Character: Maud St. James
Released: September 28, 1953
Type: Movie
Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.
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The Holly and the Ivy
Title: The Holly and the Ivy
Character: Jenny Gregory
Released: December 3, 1952
Type: Movie
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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I Believe in You
Title: I Believe in You
Character: Matty Matheson
Released: March 5, 1952
Type: Movie
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.
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The Astonished Heart
Title: The Astonished Heart
Character: Barbara Faber
Released: March 17, 1950
Type: Movie
Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (Noel Coward), whom she finds arrogant and off-putting ... at first. One evening alone together, romance is set ablaze, leaving Christian with a lot of explaining to do to Barbara.
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Brief Encounter
Title: Brief Encounter
Character: Laura Jesson
Released: November 24, 1945
Type: Movie
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
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This Happy Breed
Title: This Happy Breed
Character: Ethel Gibbons
Released: May 28, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival.
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Dear Octopus
Title: Dear Octopus
Character: Cynthia
Released: September 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothing out all the deep-set hostilities and jealousies.
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In Which We Serve
Title: In Which We Serve
Character: Mrs. Kinross / Alix
Released: September 17, 1942
Type: Movie
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 commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
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We Serve
Title: We Serve
Released: June 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.
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Letter from Home
Title: Letter from Home
Character: Mrs Taylor
Released: December 1, 1941
Type: Movie
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. Glimpses of the events of Mrs Taylor's typical day, including ration shopping and fire warden training, belie the letter's innocuous statements.