Cast: Celia Johnson
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Celia Johnson. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Brief Encounter
1945 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Lean
Cast Celia Johnson · Trevor Howard · Stanley Holloway · Joyce Carey
Plot Laura Jesson is a country housewife bored with the security of her husband and family. She goes into town once a week for shopping and a matinee picture. On one...
8.1
11K votes
8.1
11K votes
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1969 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ronald Neame
Cast Maggie Smith · Robert Stephens · Pamela Franklin · Gordon Jackson
Plot A liberated young schoolteacher at an Edinburgh girls' school in the period between the two wars, instructs her girls on the ways of life. Ignoring the more mundane subjects, she...
7.0
405 votes
7.0
405 votes
This Happy Breed
1944 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Lean
Cast Robert Newton · Celia Johnson · Stanley Holloway · John Mills
Plot Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort...
6.9
639 votes
6.9
639 votes
Les Miserables (TV)
1978 · Movie · 150 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Glenn Jordan
Cast Richard Jordan · Anthony Perkins · Cyril Cusack · Claude Dauphin
Plot Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for decades by the relentless and cruel policeman Javert.
6.7
73 votes
6.7
73 votes
In Which We Serve
1942 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Lean · Noël Coward
Cast Noël Coward · John Mills · Bernard Miles · Celia Johnson
Plot Based on the true story of Lord Mountbatten's destroyer, In Which We Serve is one of the most memorable British films made during World War II. Unfolding in flashback as...
6.2
536 votes
6.2
536 votes
A Kid for Two Farthings
1955 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast Celia Johnson · Diana Dors · David Kossoff · Joe Robinson
Plot In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor...
6.1
45 votes
6.1
45 votes
The Captain's Paradise
1953 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Kimmins
Cast Alec Guinness · Yvonne De Carlo · Celia Johnson · Charles Goldner
Plot Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organised - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Nita in Tangiers....
5.6
37 votes
5.6
37 votes
Romeo & Juliet (TV)
1978 · Movie · 168 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast Patrick Ryecart · Rebecca Saire · Celia Johnson · Michael Hordern
Plot 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...
5.5
30 votes
5.5
30 votes
The Astonished Heart
1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Noël Coward · Celia Johnson · Margaret Leighton · Joyce Carey
Plot The film begins with a scene in which Barbara rings Leonora to tell her that something has happened to Chris. At this point, we don't know who Chris is or...
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The Hostage Tower
1980 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Claudio Guzmán
Cast Peter Fonda · Maud Adams · Billy Dee Williams · Keir Dullea
Plot Criminal takes hostages on the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
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All's Well That Ends Well (TV)
1981 · Movie · 141 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Elijah Moshinsky
Cast Celia Johnson · Ian Charleson · Michael Hordern · Angela Down
Plot 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...
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BBC Play of the Month (TV Series)
1965 · Series · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Cedric Messina · John Gorrie · Rudolph Cartier · Waris Hussein
Cast Charles Gray · Lally Bowers · Eileen Atkins · Janet Suzman
Plot TV Series (1965-1983). 16 seasons. 120 episodes
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The Holly and the Ivy
1952 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George More O'Ferrall
Cast Ralph Richardson · Celia Johnson · Margaret Leighton · Denholm Elliott
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Celebrity Playhouse (TV Series)
1981 · Series · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Cunliffe · John Glenister · Donald McWhinnie
Cast Celia Johnson · Eileen Atkins · Georgina Hale · Robert Powell
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Dear Octopus
1943 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast Margaret Lockwood · Michael Wilding · Celia Johnson · Roland Culver
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I Believe in You
1952 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Basil Dearden · Michael Relph
Cast Celia Johnson · Cecil Parker · Godfrey Tearle · Harry Fowler
Plot I Believe in You, is a slice of life look at the workings of the probation service, with Basil Dearden directing a screenplay he wrote with Michael Relph and Jack...
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The Good Companions
1957 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom
Direction J. Lee Thompson
Cast Eric Portman · Celia Johnson · Hugh Griffith · Janette Scott
Plot A touring variety troupe, the "Dinky Doos" are in financial trouble. An encounter with three strangers - Inigo Jollifant (a romantic, song-writing ex-schoolmaster), Miss Trant (a philanthropic spinster in search...
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Staying On (TV)
1980 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Silvio Narizzano
Cast Trevor Howard · Celia Johnson · Saeed Jaffrey · Pearl Padamsee
Plot A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s.
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