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Mervyn Johns

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: Acting

Born: Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK, 1899-02-17

Died: 1992-09-06

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1934	Lady in Danger	Reporter	58
2	1935	The Guv'nor	Bank Director	73
3	1935	Foreign Affaires	Courtroom Interpreter	0
4	1936	In the Soup	Meakin	35
5	1936	Dishonour Bright	French Postcard Seller	0
6	1937	Storm in a Teacup	Court Bailiff (uncredited)	75
7	1937	Night Ride	Trapped Miner	60
8	1938	Pride and Prejudice	Sir Willian Lucas	100
9	1939	Jamaica Inn	Thomas	61
10	1940	Girl in the News	James Fetherwood	64
11	1940	Convoy	His Mate	54
12	1940	Saloon Bar	Wickers	65
13	1942	The Next of Kin	No 23: Mr Davis	57
14	1942	The Foreman Went to France	Official, Passport Office	66
15	1942	Went the Day Well?	Charlie Sims	72
16	1943	The Bells Go Down	Sam	72
17	1943	My Learned Friend	Grimshaw	60
18	1943	San Demetrio London	Greaser John Boyle - M.V. San Demetrio	67
19	1944	The Halfway House	Rhys	64
20	1945	Twilight Hour	Major John Roberts	0
21	1945	Dead of Night	Walter Craig (Segment "Linking Story")	72
22	1945	Pink String and Sealing Wax	Edward Sutton	63
23	1946	They Knew Mr. Knight	Tom Blake	57
24	1946	The Captive Heart	Pte. Evans	64
25	1947	Captain Boycott	Watty Connell	67
26	1948	Easy Money	Herbert Atkins	60
27	1948	Counterblast	Dr. Bruckner, the Beast of Ravensbruck	60
28	1948	Quartet	Samuel Sunbury (segment "The Kite")	62
29	1949	Helter Skelter	Ernest Bennett	62
30	1949	Edward, My Son	Harry Sempkin	65
31	1949	Diamond City	Hart	52
32	1950	Tony Draws a Horse		0
33	1951	Scrooge	Bob Cratchit	74
34	1952	The Magic Box	Goitz	63
35	1952	Tall Headlines	Uncle Ted	58
36	1953	The Oracle	Tom Mitchum	50
37	1953	Valley of Song	Griffiths	0
38	1953	The Master of Ballantrae	MacKellar	57
39	1954	Romeo and Juliet	Friar Laurence	52
40	1955	The Blue Peter	Captain Snow	60
41	1956	1984	Jones	65
42	1956	The Intimate Stranger	Ernest Chaple	58
43	1956	Moby Dick	Peleg	71
44	1956	Find the Lady	Hurst	35
45	1957	The Counterfeit Plan	Louie Bernard	52
46	1957	Doctor at Large	Smith	56
47	1957	The Vicious Circle	Dr. George Kimber	64
48	1957	The Surgeon's Knife	Mr. Waring	0
49	1957	Danger List	Mr. Ellis	0
50	1958	The Gypsy and the Gentleman	Brook	55
51	1959	The Devil's Disciple	Rev. Maindeck Parshotter	66
52	1960	Once More, with Feeling!	Mr. Alonzo Wilbur Jr.	59
53	1960	Never Let Go	Alfie Barnes	66
54	1960	The Sundowners	Jack Patchogue	67
55	1961	No Love for Johnnie	Charlie Young	62
56	1961	The Rebel	Manager of Art Gallery, London	78
57	1961	Echo of Barbara	Sam Roscoe	0
58	1961	Francis of Assisi	Brother Juniper	76
59	1963	The Day of the Triffids	Mr. Coker	61
60	1963	55 Days at Peking	Clergyman	70
61	1963	80,000 Suspects	Buckridge	69
62	1963	The Old Dark House	Potiphar Femm	59
63	1964	A Jolly Bad Fellow	Willie Pugh-Smith	55
64	1965	The Heroes of Telemark	Col. Wilkinson	69
65	1966	Who Killed the Cat?	Henry Fawcett	70
66	1973	The National Health	Rees	69
67	1976	House of Mortal Sin	Father Duggan	65

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	Samuel Pepys	35
2	1955	Dixon of Dock Green	Mr. Farmer	53
3	1956	Armchair Theatre	Prison Officer Graves	58
4	1956	Armchair Theatre	George Thompson	58
5	1959	No Hiding Place		37
6	1959	The Third Man	Geoffrey Ormsby	67
7	1960	Danger Man	Armstrong	72
8	1960	Sunday-Night Play	Holloway	0
9	1960	Maigret	Inspector Fumel	69
10	1961	The Avengers	Brandon Storey	77
11	1962	The Saint	Dr. Davis	73
12	1964	Detective		0
13	1965	Pardon the Expression	Jacob Elijah Burgess	60
14	1965	Pardon the Expression	Jeb	60
15	1972	The Adventures of Black Beauty		62
16	1972	The Adventurer	Franz Kolmar	55
17	1972	Crown Court	Arthur Charles Parfitt	54
18	1976	The New Avengers		70
19	1979	Shoestring		68