Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 17, 1899
Place of Birth
Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
Also Known As
- David Mervyn Johns
Mervyn Johns
Biography
Father of actress Glynis Johns, who appeared with him in The Halfway House (1944) and The Sundowners (1960). Stocky, benevolent-looking Welsh character who became an unexpected star of British movies during WWII, then moved quickly into post-war supports, with one of his fondly-remembered parts being that of the cowering "Bob Cratchit" to Alastair Sim's cold-hearted "Ebenezer Scrooge" in the definitive film version of A Christmas Carol (1951).
Known For - Movies
55 Days at Peking
as Clergyman
Moby Dick
as Peleg
Scrooge
as Bob Cratchit
Jamaica Inn
as Thomas
The Heroes of Telemark
as Col. Wilkinson
The Day of the Triffids
as Mr. Coker
Dead of Night
as Walter Craig (Segment "Linking Story")
1984
as Jones
Quartet
as Samuel Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Francis of Assisi
as Brother Juniper
