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Celia Johnson

Acting Born Dec 18, 1908 Richmond, Surrey, England, UK 24 credits

Biography

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

Film

101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure

as Mrs. Palfrey
Film

Sansho the Bailiff

as Mrs. Alving
Film

Sansho the Bailiff

as Judith Bliss
Film

Sansho the Bailiff

as Sheila
Film

Sansho the Bailiff

as Eloise
Film

Sansho the Bailiff

as Madame Ranyevskaya
Film

Brief Encounter

as Laura Jesson

Full filmography

  • Play for Today (1970) as Mrs. Palfrey
  • BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Mrs. Alving
  • BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Judith Bliss
  • BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Sheila
  • BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Eloise
  • BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Madame Ranyevskaya
  • Omnibus (1967) as Ellen Edgeworth
  • ITV Playhouse (1967) as Miss Hobish
  • The Wednesday Play (1964) as Countess Isabel von Reger
  • The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978) as Nurse
  • Centre Play (1973) as La Comtesse de Chemaille
  • Les Misérables (1978) as Sister Simplice
  • Brief Encounter (1945) as Laura Jesson
  • Number 10 (1983) as Mrs Gladstone (Anne MacKenzie Robertson)
  • In Which We Serve (1942) as Mrs. Kinross / Alix
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) as Miss Mackay
  • Celebrity Playhouse (1981) as Mrs. Callifer
  • This Happy Breed (1944) as Ethel Gibbons
  • The Cellar and the Almond Tree (1970)
  • The Captain's Paradise (1953) as Maud St. James
  • The Hostage Tower (1980) as Mrs. Wheeler
  • I Believe in You (1952) as Matty Matheson
  • Romeo and Juliet (1978) as Nurse
  • Staying On (1980) as Lucy Smalley