Cast & creator
Celia Johnson
Best known for Play for Today, The Wednesday Play, BBC Play of the Month
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Celia Johnson licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Celia Elizabeth Johnson, Elizabeth Johnson, Селия Джонсон
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film credits
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television credits
40
1941–1983 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (40)
Showing 40 of 40 credits
Play for Today
Mrs. Palfrey
1970
The Wednesday Play
Countess Isabel von Reger
1964
BBC Play of the Month
Mrs. Alving
1965BBC Play of the Month
Judith Bliss
1965BBC Play of the Month
Sheila
1965BBC Play of the Month
Eloise
1965BBC Play of the Month
Madame Ranyevskaya
1965
ITV Playhouse
Miss Hobish
1967
Omnibus
Ellen Edgeworth
1967
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Nurse
1978
Centre Play
La Comtesse de Chemaille
1973
Brief Encounter
Laura Jesson
1945
Number 10
Mrs Gladstone (Anne MacKenzie Robertson)
1983Celebrity Playhouse
Mrs. Callifer
1981
In Which We Serve
Mrs. Kinross / Alix
1942
This Happy Breed
Ethel Gibbons
1944
Les Misérables
Sister Simplice
1978
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Miss Mackay
1969
The Hostage Tower
Mrs. Wheeler
1980
A Kid for Two Farthings
Joanna
1955Love Affair
Mrs Hobbish
1974
Romeo and Juliet
Nurse
1978
The Holly and the Ivy
Jenny Gregory
1952
I Believe in You
Matty Matheson
1952
The Captain's Paradise
Maud St. James
1953
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
1970
All's Well That Ends Well
Countess of Rousillon
1981
A Bolt of Lightning
Mary Otis
1951
The Cherry Orchard
Madame Ranevskaya
1971
The Dame of Sark
Sybil Hathaway
1976
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Mrs. Palfrey
1973Lloyd George Knew My Father
Lady Sheila Boothroyd
1975
The Good Companions
Miss Trant
1957
The Emperor's New Hat
La Comtesse de Chemaille
1977
Staying On
Lucy Smalley
1980
The Potting Shed
Mrs Califer
1981
The Astonished Heart
Barbara Faber
1950
Letter from Home
Mrs Taylor
1941Dear Octopus
Cynthia
1943