Cast: Glynis Johns

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Glynis Johns. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Mary Poppins

1964 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Julie Andrews · Dick Van Dyke · David Tomlinson · Glynis Johns

Synopsis In Mary Poppins (1964), a magical and enigmatic nanny arrives at the Banks household in London to care for Jane and Michael, two mischievous children. With her whimsical charm, she transforms their mundane lives into extraordinary adventures, blending reality with...

7.1

90K votes

7.1

90K votes

Frieda

1947 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast David Farrar · Glynis Johns · Mai Zetterling · Flora Robson

Synopsis An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape. Then her brother arrives.

6.9

22 votes

6.9

22 votes

An Ideal Husband

1947 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alexander Korda

Cast Paulette Goddard · Michael Wilding · Diana Wynyard · Hugh Williams

Synopsis An upstanding politician is haunted by his past when a blackmailer threatens to reveal a youthful indiscretion.

6.8

120 votes

6.8

120 votes

State Secret (The Great Manhunt)

1950 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Jack Hawkins · Glynis Johns · Walter Rilla

Synopsis Visiting in England, famed American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but...

6.7

42 votes

6.7

42 votes

49th Parallel

1941 · Movie · 132 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Eric Portman · Leslie Howard · Laurence Olivier · Raymond Massey

Synopsis Michael Powell directed this odd wartime propaganda film, set in Canada, before the American entry into WWII. A German U-boat has infiltrated the Canadian coastline, seeking to attack and subvert our neighbors to the North, before Uncle sam can wake...

Max

6.7

520 votes

6.7

520 votes

The Sundowners

1960 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Deborah Kerr · Robert Mitchum · Peter Ustinov · Glynis Johns

Synopsis 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 settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth...

6.7

744 votes

6.7

744 votes

Shake Hands with the Devil

1959 · Movie · 111 min. · Ireland

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast James Cagney · Don Murray · Dana Wynter · Glynis Johns

Synopsis In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel...

6.6

117 votes

6.6

117 votes

Perfect Strangers

1945 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alexander Korda

Cast Robert Donat · Deborah Kerr · Glynis Johns · Ann Todd

Synopsis Robert and Catherine have a quiet little marriage until WWII separates them for three years. Serving in the navy dramatically transforms both of them and they realize how much they resented their old mundane life together. Both dread their inevitable...

Max

6.6

36 votes

6.6

36 votes

6.5

501 votes

No Highway

1951 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Henry Koster

Cast James Stewart · Marlene Dietrich · Glynis Johns · Jack Hawkins

Synopsis Theodore Honey is an aeronautical engineer being sent to Labrador from London to examine the wreckage of a new passenger plane designed by his company. His theory is that the planes are susceptible to metal fatigue after a specific amount...

6.3

181 votes

6.3

181 votes

The Card

1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Alec Guinness · Glynis Johns · Valerie Hobson · Petula Clark

Synopsis A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing- some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman...

6.3

51 votes

6.3

51 votes

The Chapman Report

1962 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Shelley Winters · Claire Bloom · Jane Fonda · Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Synopsis Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four women (Claire Bloom, Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters and...

6.1

214 votes

6.1

214 votes

The Cabinet of Caligari

1962 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Roger Kay

Cast Glynis Johns · Dan O'Herlihy · Richard Davalos · Lawrence Dobkin

Synopsis Jane's car breaks down and she makes her way to a nearby estate, owned by a mysterious man named Caligari...

6.1

76 votes

6.1

76 votes

The Vault Of Horror

1973 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast Tom Baker · Denholm Elliott · Terence Alexander · Daniel Johns

Synopsis Five men trapped in the basement vault of an office building share visions with each other of their demise. Stories revolve around vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims'...

5.8

419 votes

5.8

419 votes

Another Time, Another Place

1958 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Lana Turner · Barry Sullivan · Glynis Johns · Sean Connery

Synopsis Sean Connery (in one of his earliest leading roles) plays a World War II BBC newsman torn between two women, played by Lana Turner as the glamorous reporter Connery falls for, and Glynis Johns as his devoted wife. A tragic...

5.8

157 votes

5.8

157 votes

The Ref

1994 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Ted Demme

Cast Denis Leary · Judy Davis · Kevin Spacey · Raymond J. Barry

Synopsis Caroline and Lloyd (Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey) are a married couple constantly at each other's throats, masters at crafting acid-tongued barbs at the other's expense. Indeed, they are so obsessed with belittling each other that they never stop --...

5.8

349 votes

5.8

349 votes

Appointment with Venus

1951 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast David Niven · Glynis Johns · George Coulouris · Barry Jones

Synopsis At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid...

5.6

175 votes

5.6

175 votes

While You Were Sleeping

1995 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jon Turteltaub

Cast Sandra Bullock · Bill Pullman · Peter Gallagher · Peter Boyle

Synopsis While You Were Sleeping (1995) follows Lucy, a lonely transit worker, who harbors a secret crush on a handsome commuter, Peter. After saving him from an oncoming train, Peter falls into a coma, and a misunderstanding leads his family to...

5.5

44K votes

5.5

44K votes

Dear Brigitte

1965 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast James Stewart · Fabian · Glynis Johns · Cindy Carol

Synopsis Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little artistic talent of his own.

5.4

91 votes

5.4

91 votes