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Celia Johnson
Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
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…
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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 at age 73. Description above from the Wikipedia article Celia Johnson licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1983
Number 10
TV show Mrs Gladstone (Anne MacKenzie Robertson)
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1981
Celebrity Playhouse
TV show Mrs. Callifer
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1981
The Potting Shed
Movie Mrs Califer
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1981
All's Well That Ends Well
Movie Countess of Rousillon
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1980
Staying On
Movie Lucy Smalley
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1980
The Hostage Tower
Movie Mrs. Wheeler
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1978
Les Misérables
Movie Sister Simplice
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1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare
TV show Nurse
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1978
Romeo and Juliet
Movie Nurse
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1977
The Emperor's New Hat
Movie La Comtesse de Chemaille
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1976
The Dame of Sark
Movie Sybil Hathaway
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1975
Lloyd George Knew My Father
Movie Lady Sheila Boothroyd
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1974
Love Affair
Movie Mrs Hobbish
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1973
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Movie Mrs. Palfrey
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1973
Centre Play
TV show La Comtesse de Chemaille
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1971
The Cherry Orchard
Movie Madame Ranevskaya
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1970
Play for Today
TV show Mrs. Palfrey
- 1970
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1969
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Movie Miss Mackay
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1967
Omnibus
TV show Ellen Edgeworth
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1967
ITV Playhouse
TV show Miss Hobish
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1965
BBC Play of the Month
TV show Mrs. Alving
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1964
The Wednesday Play
TV show Countess Isabel von Reger
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1957
The Good Companions
Movie Miss Trant
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1955
A Kid for Two Farthings
Movie Joanna
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1953
The Captain's Paradise
Movie Maud St. James
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1952
The Holly and the Ivy
Movie Jenny Gregory
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1952
I Believe in You
Movie Matty Matheson
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1951
A Bolt of Lightning
Movie Mary Otis
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1950
The Astonished Heart
Movie Barbara Faber
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1945
Brief Encounter
Movie Laura Jesson
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1944
This Happy Breed
Movie Ethel Gibbons
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1943
Dear Octopus
Movie Cynthia
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1942
In Which We Serve
Movie Mrs. Kinross / Alix
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1942
We Serve
Movie
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1941
Letter from Home
Movie Mrs Taylor
