Celia Johnson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Celia Johnson licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Brief Encounter
as Laura JessonReturning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is...
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In Which We Serve
as Mrs. Kinross / AlixThe story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during...
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Les Misérables
as Sister SimpliceIn 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a...
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This Happy Breed
as Ethel GibbonsIn 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house,...
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
as Miss MackayA headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and...
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Romeo & Juliet
as NurseTwo households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient...
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The Holly and the Ivy
as Jenny GregoryAn English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners,...
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The Captain's Paradise
as Maud St. JamesMediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very...
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All's Well That Ends Well
as Countess of RousillonHelena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram...
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A Kid for Two Farthings
as JoannaJoe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside...
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The Hostage Tower
as Mrs. WheelerA flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the...
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I Believe in You
as Matty MathesonA drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue...
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The Astonished Heart
as Barbara FaberSeveral years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret...
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The Good Companions
as Miss TrantThe story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
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The Cherry Orchard
as Madame RanevskayaMadame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face...
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Staying On
as Lucy SmalleyA british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj...
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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
as Mrs. PalfreyMrs Palfrey tries hard to be accepted by the other residents at the Claremont. But then she...
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Letter from Home
as Mrs TaylorTwo evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor,...
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The Dame of Sark
as Sybil Hathaway1976 play. During the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands, Dame Sybil Hathaway comes up...
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The Cellar and the Almond Tree
as uncreditedThe Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in....
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BBC Television Shakespeare
as NurseThe BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...
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