Glynis Johns
Born: 1923-10-05 in Pretoria, South Africa
Died: 2024-01-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
Glynis Johns (October 5, 1923 - January 4, 2024) was a South African-born British actress, dancer, musician and singer. Born in Pretoria, South Africa, while her parents were on tour, she is best known for originating the role of Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music on Broadway, for which she won a Tony Award, and for playing Winifred Banks in Walt Disney's musical motion picture Mary Poppins. In 2020, with the death of Olivia de Havilland, Johns became the oldest living Academy Award-nominee in any acting category. In both roles, Johns sang songs written specifically for her, including "Send in the Clowns", composed by Stephen Sondheim, and "Sister Suffragette", written by the Sherman Brothers. Johns was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the 1960 film The Sundowners. She was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood and class years of British cinema. She is known for the breathy quality of her husky voice and her upbeat persona. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glynis Johns, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2013
- Six by Sondheim as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's as (archive footage)
1999
- Superstar as Grandma
1995
- While You Were Sleeping as Elsie
1994
- The Ref as Rose Chasseur
- The Secret Garden as Darjeeling (voice)
1993
- Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One as Self - Interviewee
1988
- Zelly & Me as Co-Co
- Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School as Ms. Grimwood (voice)
- Coming of Age
1987
- Nukie as Sister Anne
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Bridget O'Hara
- Spraggue as Aunt Mary
- The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
1982
- Cheers as Mrs. Helen Chambers
- Little Gloria... Happy at Last as Laura Fitzpatrick Morgan
1977
- The Love Boat as Edna Miles
- Three Dangerous Ladies as Mrs. Amworth
1975
- Mrs. Amworth as Mrs. Amworth
1974
- The Happy Prince as Swallow (voice)
1973
- The Vault of Horror as Eleanor Critchit (segment 2 "The Neat Job")
1972
- Under Milk Wood as Myfanwy Price
1971
- Great Performances as Self
1969
- Lock Up Your Daughters as Mrs Squeezum
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Don't Just Stand There as Sabine Manning
1966
- Batman as Lady Penelope Peasoup
1965
- Dear Brigitte as Vina Leaf
1964
- Mary Poppins as Mrs. Banks
- 12 O'Clock High as Jennifer Heath
1963
- Burke's Law as Steffi Bernard
- The Danny Kaye Show as Self
- Vacation Playhouse as Glynis Granville
- Papa's Delicate Condition as Amberlyn Griffith
- Glynis
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- The Cabinet of Caligari as Jane Lindstrom
- The Lloyd Bridges Show as Leah Marquand
- The Beachcomber as Rosalind Metcalf
- The Chapman Report as Teresa Harnish
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host
- Dr. Kildare as Sister Brigid Marie
- The Defenders as Catherine Collins
- The DuPont Show of the Week as Emily Foster
1960
- The Roaring 20's
- The Sundowners as Mrs. Firth
- The Spider's Web as Clarissa Hailsham-Brown
- Last of the Few as Self / Narrator
1959
- Adventures in Paradise as Esther Holmes
- Shake Hands with the Devil as Kitty Brady
1958
- Naked City as Miss Arlington
- Another Time, Another Place as Kay Trevor
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- All Mine to Give as Jo Eunson
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- Around the World in 80 Days as Sporting Lady's Companion
- Loser Takes All as Cary
- The Errol Flynn Theatre as The Girl
1955
- The Court Jester as Maid Jean
- Josephine and Men as Josephine Luton
1954
- The Seekers as Marion Southey
- Mad About Men as Caroline Trewella / Miranda Trewella
- The Weak and the Wicked as Jean Raymond
- The Beachcomber as Martha Jones
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Personal Affair as Barbara Vining
- Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue as Helen Mary MacPherson MacGregor
- The Sword and the Rose as Princess Mary Tudor
- General Electric Theater as Alma
1952
- The Card as Ruth Earp
- The Magic Box as May Jones
1951
- No Highway in the Sky as Marjorie Corder
- Flesh and Blood as Katherine Manley
- Encore as Stella Cotman
- Appointment with Venus as Nicola Fallaize
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1950
- Your Show of Shows
- Lux Video Theatre
- State Secret as Lisa Robinson
1949
- Dear Mr. Prohack as Mimi Warburton
- Helter Skelter as Miranda Trewella (uncredited)
- Third Time Lucky as Joan Burns
1948
- Studio One as Lily Snape
- Miranda as Miranda Trewella
1947
- Frieda as Judy Dawson
- An Ideal Husband as Mabel Chiltern
1946
- This Man Is Mine as Millie
1945
- Perfect Strangers as Dizzy Clayton
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
- The Halfway House as Gwyneth
1943
- The Adventures of Tartu as Paula Palacek
1941
- The Prime Minister as Miss Sheridan (uncredited)
- 49th Parallel as Anna
1940
- The Thief of Bagdad as Princess's Maid (uncredited)
- The Briggs Family as Sheila Briggs
- Under Your Hat as Winnie
1939
- On the Night of the Fire as Mary
1938
- Murder in the Family as Marjorie Osborne
- South Riding as Midge Carne
- Prison Without Bars as Nina