Celia Johnson Overview:

Actress, Celia Johnson, was born Celia Elizabeth Johnson on Dec 18, 1908 in Ellerker Gate, Richmond. Johnson died at the age of 73 on Apr 26, 1982 in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire .

HONORS and AWARDS:

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Although Johnson was nominated for one Oscar, she never won a competitive Academy Award.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1946Best ActressBrief Encounter (1945)Laura JessonNominated
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Robert Newton and head the cast in David Lean’s “This Happy Breed”

By Stephen Reginald on Jul 30, 2023 From Classic Movie Man

Robert Newton and head the cast in David Lean’s “This Happy Breed” This Happy Breed (1944) is a British drama directed by David Lean and starring Robert Newton, , Stanley Holloway, and John Mills. The screenplay is by Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, an... Read full article


and Trevor Howard have a “Brief Encounter”

By Stephen Reginald on Apr 9, 2021 From Classic Movie Man

and Trevor Howard have a “Brief Encounter” Brief Encounter (1945) is a British romantic film directed by David Lean and starring and Trevor Howard. The screenplay was written by Noel Coward which was based on his play Still Life (1936).Laura Jesson (Johns... Read full article


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Celia Johnson Quotes:

Jean Brodie: Surely you cannot believe that this is the work of nine-year-olds?
Miss Mackay: I could believe it was the work of your nine-year-olds!


Miss Kerr: She always looks so... *extreme*.


Ethel Gibbons: There will always be wars as long as men are such fools as to want to go to them.


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Celia Johnson Facts
Her feature film debut, In Which We Serve (1942), was also that of both Richard Attenborough and Juliet Mills.

Her daughters Kate and Lucy Fleming have bought out the literary estate of their uncle Ian Fleming (creator of James Bond). Kate Fleming's father-in-law was the late Liberal politician Jo Grimond (Lord Grimond, Life Peer) and her mother-in-law Laura, Lady Grimond (nee Bonham Carter) was a descendant of the Liberal Prime Minister H.H. Asquith (the 1st Earl of Oxford & Asquith).

After Diana Wynyard passed away, she replaced her and appeared in "The Master Builder" with Michael Redgrave and Maggie Smith as part of the new National Theatre Company in 1964. She and Smith would later appear together in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).

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