Mervyn Johns
Born: 1899-02-17 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
Died: 1992-09-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
Father of actress Glynis Johns, who appeared with him in The Halfway House (1944) and The Sundowners (1960). Stocky, benevolent-looking Welsh character who became an unexpected star of British movies during WWII, then moved quickly into post-war supports, with one of his fondly-remembered parts being that of the cowering "Bob Cratchit" to Alastair Sim's cold-hearted "Ebenezer Scrooge" in the definitive film version of A Christmas Carol (1951).
Filmography
1979
- Shoestring as Reverend James Appleby
1976
- The New Avengers as Elderly Man
- House of Mortal Sin as Father Duggan
1973
- The National Health as Rees
1972
- Crown Court as Arthur Charles Parfitt
- The Adventurer as Franz Kolmar
1966
- Who Killed the Cat? as Henry Fawcett
1965
- The Heroes of Telemark as Col. Wilkinson
- Pardon the Expression as Jacob Elijah Burgess
1964
- Detective
- A Jolly Bad Fellow as Willie Pugh-Smith
1963
- 55 Days at Peking as Clergyman
- The Day of the Triffids as Mr. Coker
- The Old Dark House as Potiphar Femm
- 80,000 Suspects as Buckridge
1962
- The Saint as Dr. Davis
1961
- The Avengers as Brandon Storey
- Drama 61-67 as Charlie Dowsett
- The Rebel as Manager of Art Gallery, London
- No Love for Johnnie as Charlie Young
- Francis of Assisi as Brother Juniper
- A Call on Kuprin: Part 1 as Holloway
- Echo of Barbara as Sam Roscoe
- A Call on Kuprin: Part 2 as Holloway
1960
- Danger Man as Armstrong
- Maigret as Inspector Fumel
- Sunday-Night Play as Holloway
- The Sundowners as Jack Patchogue
- Once More, with Feeling! as Mr. Alonzo Wilbur Jr.
- Never Let Go as Alfie Barnes
1959
- No Hiding Place
- The Third Man as Geoffrey Ormsby
- The Devil's Disciple as Rev. Maindeck Parshotter
1958
- The Gypsy and the Gentleman as Brook
1957
- Doctor at Large as Mr. Smith
- The Vicious Circle as Dr. George Kimber
- The Counterfeit Plan as Louie Bernard
- The Surgeon's Knife as Mr. Waring
- Danger List as Mr. Ellis
1956
- Moby Dick as Peleg
- Armchair Theatre as Prison Officer Graves
- 1984 as Jones
- The Intimate Stranger as Ernest Chaple
- Find the Lady as Hurst
1955
- Dixon of Dock Green as Mr. Farmer
- The Blue Peter as Captain Snow
1954
- Romeo and Juliet as Friar Laurence
1953
- The Master of Ballantrae as MacKellar
- Valley of Song as Griffiths
- The Oracle as Tom Mitchum
1952
- The Magic Box as Goitz
- Tall Headlines as Uncle Ted
1951
- Scrooge as Bob Cratchit
1950
- Sunday Night Theatre as Samuel Pepys
- Tony Draws a Horse
1949
- Helter Skelter as Ernest Bennett
- Diamond City as Hart
- Edward, My Son as Harry Sempkin
1948
- Quartet as Samuel Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
- Counterblast as Dr. Bruckner, the Beast of Ravensbruck
- Easy Money as Herbert Atkins
1947
- Captain Boycott as Watty Connell
1946
- The Captive Heart as Pte. Evans
- They Knew Mr. Knight as Tom Blake
1945
- Dead of Night as Walter Craig (Segment "Linking Story")
- Pink String and Sealing Wax as Edward Sutton
- Twilight Hour as Major John Roberts
1944
- The Halfway House as Rhys
1943
- San Demetrio London as Greaser John Boyle - M.V. San Demetrio
- My Learned Friend as Grimshaw
- The Bells Go Down as Sam
1942
- Went the Day Well? as Charlie Sims
- The Next of Kin as No 23: Mr Davis
- The Foreman Went to France as Official, Passport Office
1940
- Convoy as His Mate
- Saloon Bar as Wickers
- Girl in the News as James Fetherwood
1939
- Jamaica Inn as Thomas
1938
- Pride and Prejudice as Sir Willian Lucas
1937
- Storm in a Teacup as Court Bailiff (uncredited)
- The Last Curtain as Hemp
- Night Ride as Trapped Miner
1936
- Dishonour Bright as French Postcard Seller
- In the Soup as Meakin
1935
- The Guv'nor as Bank Director
- Foreign Affaires as Courtroom Interpreter (uncredited)
1934
- Lady in Danger as Reporter