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...

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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...

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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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Celebrity Playhouse (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 90 min. · United Kingdom

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Dear Octopus

1943 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

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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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