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David Mervyn Johns (18 February 18996 September 1992) was a distinctive Welsh film and television character actor who became a star of British films during World War II. Continuing into the postwar era, he was a notable mainstay of Ealing Studios. Mervyn Johns started his career in the theatre in the 1920s, and then made his first film in 1935. Among his dozens of film roles were the church Warden in ''Went the Day Well?'' (1942), the fearful architect Walter Craig in the mystery film ''Dead of Night'' (1945) and Bob Cratchit in ''Scrooge'' (1951) with Alastair Sim. Johns also made many television appearances, in series such as ''The Avengers'', ''Danger Man'' and ''Dixon of Dock Green''. He was well-known for his "mostly mild-mannered, lugubrious, amusing, sometimes moving 'little men'" in over 100 film and television series.〔http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-mervyn-johns-1550946.html〕 Johns was twice married. His first wife was the concert pianist Alys Steele. They had one daughter, the actress Glynis Johns, born in South Africa, with whom he appeared in ''The Halfway House'' (1944) and ''The Sundowners'' (1960). After Alys's death in 1971 he married the actress Diana Churchill in 1976. 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 warden * ''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 * ''The Blue Peter'' (1955) .... Captain Snow. * ''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) * ''The Gypsy and the Gentleman'' (1958) .... Brook * ''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 * ''The Old Dark House'' (1963) .... Potiphar Femm * ''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 * ''Who Killed the Cat?'' (1966) .... Henry Fawcett * ''The National Health'' (1973) .... Rees * ''House of Mortal Sin'' (1976) .... Father Duggan 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mervyn Johns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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