Cast: Glynis Johns
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Glynis Johns. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 53
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...
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...
6.6
36 votes
6.6
36 votes
The Court Jester
1955 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Melvin Frank · Norman Panama
Cast Danny Kaye · Glynis Johns · Angela Lansbury · Basil Rathbone
6.5
501 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
The Sword and the Rose
1953 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Ken Annakin
Cast Glynis Johns · James Robertson Justice · Richard Todd · Michael Gough
5.6
32 votes
5.6
32 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