Celia Johnson
Also Known As: Celia Elizabeth Johnson, Elizabeth Johnson, Селия Джонсон
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Celia Johnson licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
Birthday: December 18, 1908
Deathday: April 26, 1982
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Gender: Female
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Brief Encounter
Overview: Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-24
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama History Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-27
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Overview: A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-24
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The Captain's Paradise
Overview: Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-28
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This Happy Breed
Overview: In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house in the suburbs, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival, and even another World War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-28
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The Holly and the Ivy
Overview: An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-03
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The Cherry Orchard
Overview: Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-19
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A Kid for Two Farthings
Overview: Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-15
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The Astonished Heart
Overview: Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (Noel Coward), whom she finds arrogant and off-putting ... at first. One evening alone together, romance is set ablaze, leaving Christian with a lot of explaining to do to Barbara.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-17
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I Believe in You
Overview: A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-05
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The Good Companions
Overview: The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-22
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In Which We Serve
Overview: The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-17
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Letter from Home
Overview: Two evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor, telling them of her life in Blitz-era London. Glimpses of the events of Mrs Taylor's typical day, including ration shopping and fire warden training, belie the letter's innocuous statements.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-01
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Love Affair
Overview: A lonely, elderly lady strikes up a friendship with a driving instructor.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-03
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The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Overview: The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed to obtain from her the keys to her wine-cellar, which are needed for a celebration dinner. First shown in 1970, this play charts the transition of dictatorial power in the 20th century.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-04
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The Emperor's New Hat
Overview: For 51 years, the Comtesse has bought a new hat to celebrate her wedding anniyear, she invites her granddaughter Sylvie to the ceremony.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-07
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Dear Octopus
Overview: Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothing out all the deep-set hostilities and jealousies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-20
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Staying On
Overview: A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-28
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The Hostage Tower
Overview: A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel Tower and hold as hostage one of its visitors, the U.S. President's mother, while the head of a UN security force tries to stop them.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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Romeo & Juliet
Overview: Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-03
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Lloyd George Knew My Father
Overview: When Lady Sheila Boothroyd hears that the planning authorities are determined to drive a road through her grounds, she announces her intention to kill herself at the precise moment that the bulldozers start on their shameful work. As the hour strikes and the bulldozers' roar is heard, her husband General Sir William Boothroyd enters in full regimental regalia, while his old ex-army servant sounds the Last Post. Then, as the whole family stands stricken, the door opens...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-19
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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Overview: Mrs Palfrey tries hard to be accepted by the other residents at the Claremont. But then she meets Ludo and a real friendship begins.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-18
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We Serve
Overview: Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-29
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All's Well That Ends Well
Overview: Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her?
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-04
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The Dame of Sark
Overview: 1976 play. During the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands, Dame Sybil Hathaway comes up against her invading masters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-29
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