Mervyn Johns
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).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 10.053 |
| Birthday | 1899-02-17 |
| Place of Birth | Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK |
| Also Known As | David Mervyn Johns, |
1956
Moby Dick
7/387
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a s...
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Moby Dick
1942
Went the Day Well?
7.172/61
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in prepara...
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Went the Day Well?
1939
Jamaica Inn
6/203
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeep...
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Jamaica Inn
1951
Scrooge
7.4/296
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show...
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Scrooge
1945
Dead of Night
7.186/253
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. D...
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Dead of Night
1963
The Old Dark House
5.8/55
An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.
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The Old Dark House
1960
Never Let Go
6.583/24
John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic org...
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Never Let Go
1943
San Demetrio London
6.8/8
British drama documentary from 1943, based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had b...
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San Demetrio London
1946
The Captive Heart
6.2/22
A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of...
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The Captive Heart
1949
Diamond City
5.2/4
Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".
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Diamond City
1954
Romeo and Juliet
5.107/14
In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one fami...
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Romeo and Juliet
1956
Finger of Guilt
5.8/11
Film producer Reggie Wilson is worried he may have a dual personality. Fleeing Hollywood, he finds himself in England and married to the studio boss's...
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Finger of Guilt
1945
Pink String and Sealing Wax
6/15
Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkar...
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Pink String and Sealing Wax
1949
Edward, My Son
6.4/18
Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.
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Edward, My Son
1948
Easy Money
6/6
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the co...
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Easy Money
1957
The Counterfeit Plan
5.2/2
An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who...
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The Counterfeit Plan
1961
Francis of Assisi
7.6/31
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his...
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Francis of Assisi
1944
The Halfway House
6.5/22
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness i...
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The Halfway House
1943
My Learned Friend
6/15
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him...
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My Learned Friend
1948
Counterblast
6/5
An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect the Germans in their planned germ...
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Counterblast
1952
Tall Headlines
5.5/1
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
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Tall Headlines
1949
Helter Skelter
6.2/3
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
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Helter Skelter
1973
The National Health
6.6/8
Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it...
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The National Health
1958
The Gypsy and the Gentleman
5.5/8
A lusty Gypsy gold digger marries a Regency aristocrat, then learns he has no money.
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The Gypsy and the Gentleman
1961
No Love for Johnnie
5.5/6
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional proble...
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No Love for Johnnie
1960
Once More, with Feeling!
4.8/4
The wife of brilliant, but boisterous and ill-tempered conductor of the London Symphony puts up with his childishness, but the last straw is drawn whe...
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Once More, with Feeling!
1940
Saloon Bar
6.5/4
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
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Saloon Bar
1943
The Bells Go Down
7.4/6
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London...
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The Bells Go Down
1946
They Knew Mr. Knight
5.9/4
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing fri...
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They Knew Mr. Knight
1947
Captain Boycott
6.5/7
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boyco...
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Captain Boycott
1963
80,000 Suspects
6.5/8
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
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80,000 Suspects
1936
In the Soup
3.5/2
A young married couple try to impress a rich relation by posing as maid and butler of the household.
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In the Soup
1950
Tony Draws a Horse
0/0
The free-spirited wife of a proper British doctor leaves him after an arguement over the anatomically correct drawing of a horse on the wall drawn by...
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Tony Draws a Horse
1937
Night Ride
6/1
Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries...
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Night Ride
1955
The Blue Peter
6/1
A Merchant Navy hero of the Korean War returns to England after three years of captivity in Communist hands, his mind confused by brain-washing and in...
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The Blue Peter
1936
Dishonour Bright
0/0
A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court.
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Dishonour Bright
1934
Lady in Danger
5.7/3
Dexter becomes involved in a revolution and is asked to hide the Queen. This leads to misunderstanding with his firm and his fiancee.
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Lady in Danger
1964
A Jolly Bad Fellow
5.5/2
An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least...
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A Jolly Bad Fellow
1962
The Day of the Triffids
6.143/164
After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants w...
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The Day of the Triffids
1976
House of Mortal Sin
6.6/37
Also known as 'The Confessional', another of Pete Walkers's critiques of institutional hypocrisy, in which a troubled young girl goes to confession at...
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House of Mortal Sin
1940
Girl in the News
6.5/5
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later...
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Girl in the News
1940
Convoy
5.4/14
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
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Convoy
1973
The National Health
6.6/8
Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it...
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The National Health
1957
Doctor at Large
5.6/22
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bog...
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Doctor at Large
1953
The Master of Ballantrae
5.6/22
Scottish highlander Jamie Durie falls into a life of piracy after joining the failed rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the British crown.
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The Master of Ballantrae
1935
Foreign Affaires
0/0
An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means - fair or foul!
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Foreign Affaires
1942
The Next of Kin
5/6
Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi sp...
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The Next of Kin
1956
1984
6.614/110
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
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1984
1965
The Heroes of Telemark
6.928/145
Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy w...
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The Heroes of Telemark
1935
The Guv'nor
7.3/3
The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings...
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The Guv'nor
1956
Find the Lady
3.5/2
During New Year's Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her grandmother, who has suspiciously gone missing.
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Find the Lady
1952
The Magic Box
6.3/20
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to i...
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The Magic Box
1959
The Devil's Disciple
6.5/31
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Re...
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The Devil's Disciple
1948
Quartet
6/14
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
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Quartet
1957
The Vicious Circle
6.4/17
When Dr. Howard Latimer finds the German actress whom he had just met at the London Airport murdered in his flat, he is led into a world of murder, bl...
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The Vicious Circle
1953
The Oracle
5/2
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.
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The Oracle
1957
The Surgeon's Knife
0/0
A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.
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The Surgeon's Knife
1942
The Foreman Went to France
6.2/9
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
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The Foreman Went to France
1961
The Rebel
7.8/26
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Never...
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The Rebel
1966
Who Killed the Cat?
7/1
A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.
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Who Killed the Cat?
1938
Pride and Prejudice
10/1
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Pride and Prejudice
1961
Echo of Barbara
0/0
Barbara is the long-lost sister of no-good Mike Roscoe (Ronald Hines). Paula Brown (Maureen Connell) is the stripper whom Mike hires to pose as Barbar...
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Echo of Barbara
1957
Danger List
0/0
When a pharmacist accidentally prescribes poison instead of painkillers, the race is on to find the killer pills.
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Danger List
1963
55 Days at Peking
7.006/154
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebe...
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55 Days at Peking
1937
Storm in a Teacup
7.442/26
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
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Storm in a Teacup
1960
The Sundowners
6.636/47
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to set...
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The Sundowners
1953
Valley of Song
0/0
A little Welsh village is sundered by rival factions when a coveted contralto role in the "Messiah" is given to Mrs. Davies instead of Mrs. Lloyd. Bas...
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