Biography
Glynis Johns (October 5, 1923 - January 4, 2024) was a South African-born British actress, dancer, musician and singer. Born in Pretoria, South Africa, while her parents were on tour, she is best known for originating the role of Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music on Broadway, for which she won a Tony Award, and for playing Winifred Banks in Walt Disney's musical motion picture Mary Poppins. In 2020, with the death of Olivia de Havilland, Johns became the oldest living Academy Award-nomine...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Six by Sondheim
2013
as Self (archive footage)
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's
2009
as (archive footage)
Documentary looking at the history of Hollywood musicals in the 1960s. This decade saw independent film companies becoming more prominent as the bigge...
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: The Making of 'Mary Poppins'
2004
as Self
Using archival, never-before-released footage and newly shot interviews, this is a definitive behind-the-scenes look at Walt Disney's moviemaking magi...
Superstar
1999
as Grandma
Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kissed soulfully. She decides she can realize this dre...
While You Were Sleeping
1995
as Elsie
A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancé...
The Secret Garden
1994
as Darjeeling (voice)
Animated TV-film version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's story about a spoiled English orphan who lives in India but is transplanted t...
The Ref
1994
as Rose Chasseur
A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.
Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School
1988
as Ms. Grimwood (voice)
Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy are on their way to a Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, where they've been hired as gym teachers. Once there, how...
Zelly & Me
1988
as Co-Co
A young orphan who lives with her grandmother in a large Virginian home infatuates herself with the voices of Joan d'Arc. Her French nanny seeks out t...
Nukie
1987
as Sister Anne
A space child, lost in the universe, is abducted by the U. S. Space Foundation. In a desperate intergalactic search for the frightened little alien, h...
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
1984
Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman h...
Spraggue
1984
as Aunt Mary
Boston professor and amateur detective, Michael Spraggue, together with his eccentric aunt investigates a suspicious physician in connection with the ...
Three Dangerous Ladies
1977
as Mrs. Amworth
Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with t...
Mrs. Amworth
1975
as Mrs. Amworth
A vampire terrorizes a quiet English town.
The Happy Prince
1974
as Swallow (voice)
A royal statue makes friends with a small swallow.
The Vault of Horror
1973
as Eleanor Critchit (segment 2 "The Neat Job")
The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampi...
Under Milk Wood
1972
as Myfanwy Price
The delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" in which we meet a host of curious characte...
Lock Up Your Daughters
1969
as Mrs Squeezum
Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.
Don't Just Stand There
1968
as Sabine Manning
In exchange for helping writer-adventurer Lawrence Colby smuggle 300 watch parts into Paris from Switzerland, Martine Randall asks Colby to help solve...
Dear Brigitte
1965
as Vina Leaf
Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little art...
Mary Poppins
1964
as Mrs. Banks
Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in thei...
Papa's Delicate Condition
1963
as Amberlyn Griffith
A jolly, family-oriented railroad superintendent tries to get his act together when his love for the bottle starts to alienate him from his wife and o...
The Chapman Report
1962
as Teresa Harnish
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.
The Cabinet of Caligari
1962
as Jane Lindstrom
A delirious young woman feels trapped in a remote mansion at the mercy of a madman.
The Sundowners
1960
as Mrs. Firth
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to set...
The Spider's Web
1960
as Clarissa Hailsham-Brown
Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie play. An ambassador's wife must hide the corpse of her stepdaughter's unlikeable stepfather from her husband,...
Last of the Few
1960
as Self / Narrator
South African Film
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959
as Kitty Brady
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes ...
Another Time, Another Place
1958
as Kay Trevor
In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fear...
All Mine to Give
1957
as Jo Eunson
This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850s. They work very hard and become wel...
Around the World in Eighty Days
1956
as Sporting Lady's Companion
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...
Loser Takes All
1956
as Cary
Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accou...
The Court Jester
1955
as Maid Jean
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.
Josephine and Men
1955
as Josephine Luton
The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
Mad About Men
1954
as Caroline Trewella / Miranda Trewella
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
The Beachcomber
1954
as Martha Jones
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the ...
The Seekers
1954
as Marion Southey
A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.
The Weak and the Wicked
1954
as Jean Raymond
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At...
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1953
as Helen Mary MacPherson MacGregor
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becom...
Personal Affair
1953
as Barbara Vining
A schoolgirl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.
The Sword and the Rose
1953
as Princess Mary Tudor
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She ...
The Card
1952
as Ruth Earp
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so...
The Magic Box
1952
as May Jones
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to i...
Appointment with Venus
1951
as Nicola Fallaize
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on t...
No Highway in the Sky
1951
as Marjorie Corder
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies...
Encore
1951
as Stella Cotman
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat...
Flesh and Blood
1951
as Katherine Manley
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various con...
State Secret
1950
as Lisa Robinson
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demon...
Dear Mr. Prohack
1949
as Mimi Warburton
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and...
Helter Skelter
1949
as Miranda Trewella
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Third Time Lucky
1949
as Joan Burns
A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his main gambling rival arrives and he desires the girl...
Miranda
1948
as Miranda Trewella
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.
An Ideal Husband
1947
as Mabel Chiltern
A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover...
Frieda
1947
as Judy Dawson
An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who help...
This Man Is Mine
1946
as Millie
One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.
Perfect Strangers
1945
as Dizzy Clayton
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
The Halfway House
1944
as Gwyneth
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness i...
The Adventures of Tartu
1943
as Paula Palacek
British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent ...
49th Parallel
1941
as Anna
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by com...
The Briggs Family
1940
as Sheila Briggs
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
Under Your Hat
1940
as Winnie
In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular s...
The Thief of Bagdad
1940
as Princess's Maid (uncredited)
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, a...
On the Night of the Fire
1939
as Mary
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
Prison Without Bars
1938
as Nina
Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just...
South Riding
1938
as Midge Carne
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity again...
Murder in the Family
1938
as Marjorie Osborne
After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.