Mervyn Johns
- Birthday
- Feb 18, 1899
- Birthplace
- Pembroke, Wales, UK
Bio: Upon graduation from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (he'd been a medical student before deciding upon an acting career), Welsh-born Mervyn Johns spent several years as a touring actor in England, Australia and South Africa. He made his first film appearance in 1934. Significant credits in Johns' film manifest include the roles of the confused "throughline"… More Bio: Upon graduation from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (he'd been a medical student before deciding upon an acting career), Welsh-born Mervyn Johns spent several years as a touring actor in England, Australia and South Africa. He made his first film appearance in 1934. Significant credits in Johns' film manifest include the roles of the confused "throughline" character Walter Craig in the nightmarish multistoried Dead of Night; Bob Cratchit in the 1951 Alastair Sim version of A Christmas Carol; Friar Lawrence in the 1954 filmization of Romeo and Juliet; and Captain Peleg in John Huston's Moby Dick (1956). The husband of concert pianist Alys Maude Steele-Payne and the father of actress Glynis Johns, Mervyn Johns had been widowed for several years when he wed his second wife, actress Diana Churchill. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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The Day Of The Triffids
55 Days At Peking
Francis Of Assisi
Moby Dick
A Christmas Carol
Filmography
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Kill and Kill Again (1981)
- President
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House of Mortal Sin (The Confessional) (1975)
- Father Duggan
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The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
- Col. Wilkinson
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A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)
- Willie Pugh-Smith
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The Victors (1963)
- Dennis
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