Mervyn Johns

Mervyn Johns
Born	(1899-02-18)18 February 1899 Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
Died	6 September 1992(1992-09-06) (aged 93) Norwood, London, England, UK
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1934-1979
Spouse(s)	Alyce Steele (1920-1971) (her death) Diana Churchill (1976-1992) (his death)
Children	Glynis Johns

Mervyn Johns (18 February 1899 – 6 September 1992) was a Welsh film and television character actor. He was a mainstay of Ealing Studios.

Among his dozens of film roles were Walter Craig in Dead of Night (1945), the Church Warden in Went the Day Well? and Bob Cratchit in Scrooge (1951). He also made many television appearances, in series such as The Avengers, Danger Man and Dixon of Dock Green.

He was twice married. His wives were:

• the concert pianist Alys Steele (one daughter, the actress Glynis Johns, born in South Africa, with whom he appeared in The Halfway House (1944))
• the actress Diana Churchill (1976–1992)

A popular misunderstanding is that he was the elder brother of the actor Stratford Johns, but they were not related.

Selected films

• Foreign Affaires (1935)
• In the Soup (1936)
• Jamaica Inn (1939) .... Thomas
• Convoy (1940) .... Minesweeper's mate
• Girl in the News (1940)
• Went the Day Well? (1942) .... Charles Sims, the church warder
• The Foreman Went to France (1942) .... Official, Passport Office
• The Next of Kin (1942) .... No 23, Mr Davis
• San Demetrio London (1943) .... Greaser John Boyle
• My Learned Friend (1943) .... Grimshaw
• The Bells Go Down (1943) .... Sam
• The Halfway House (1944) .... Rhys
• Twilight Hour (1945) .... Major John Roberts
• Dead of Night (1945) .... Walter Craig
• Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) .... Edward Sutton
• The Captive Heart (1946) .... Private Don Evans
• They Knew Mr. Knight (1946)
• Captain Boycott (1947) .... Watty Connell
• Counterblast (film) (1948) .... Doctor Bruckner
• Quartet (1948) .... Samuel Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
• Easy Money .... Herbert Atkins (1948)
• Edward, My Son (1949) .... Harry Sempkin
• Helter Skelter (1949) .... Ernest Bennett
• Diamond City (1949) .... Hart
• Scrooge (1951) .... Bob Cratchit
• The Magic Box (1951) .... Goitz
• The Master of Ballantrae (1953) .... MacKellar
• Romeo and Juliet (1954) .... Friar Laurence
• Moby Dick (1956) .... Peleg
• 1984 (1956) .... Jones
• The Intimate Stranger (1956)
• Doctor at Large (1957) .... Smith
• The Vicious Circle (1957) .... Dr. George Kimber
• The Surgeon's Knife (1957)
• Danger List (1959) .... Mr. Ellis
• The Devil's Disciple (1959) .... Rev. Maindeck Parshotter
• The Sundowners (1960) .... Jack Patchogue, Mayor of Cawndilla
• Never Let Go (1960) .... Alfie Barnes
• No Love for Johnnie (1961) .... Charlie Young
• The Rebel (1961) .... Manager of Art Gallery, London
• Francis of Assisi (1961) .... Brother Juniper
• The Day of the Triffids (1962) .... Mr. Coker
• The Victors (1963) .... Dennis
• 80,000 Suspects (1963) .... Buckridge
• 55 Days at Peking (1963) .... Clergyman
• A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964) .... Willie Pugh-Smith
• The Heroes of Telemark (1965) .... Col. Wilkinson
• The National Health (1973) .... Rees
• House of Mortal Sin (1976) .... Father Duggan

External links

• Mervyn Johns at the Internet Movie Database