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Celia Johnson

British actress Celia Johnson in a promotional picture for the film Brief Encounter (1945). Johnson pairs a smart herringbone jacket with jumper and pearls — Celia Johnson, British actress, promotional photo for Brief Encounter

Celia Johnson

Distinguished British actress, on stage from 1928, usually in well-bred roles: films, rare.

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British actress Celia Johnson in a promotional picture for the film Brief Encounter (1945). Johnson pairs a smart herringbone jacket with jumper and pearls — Celia Johnson, British actress, promotional photo for Brief Encounter

Col Tusker Smalley (Trevor Howard) and Lucy Smalley (Celia Johnson) sit in front of mountains and chat in Staying On (1980) — Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson chat in Staying On (1980)

Alec (Trevor Howard) shakes hands with Laura (Celia Johnson) to bid farewell as she leaves on a train in Brief Encounter — Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard bid farewell in Brief Encounter

Celia Johnson Biographies

Leading Ladies, by Boze Hadleigh. Conversations with Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Dame Edith Evans, Hermione Gingold, Joan Greenwood, Dame Celia Johnson, Elsa Lanchester, Beatrice Lillie, Rachel Roberts, Dame Flora Robson, Dame Margaret Rutherford, Dame Sybil Thorndike and Estelle Winwood. — Leading Ladies by Boze Hadleigh featuring Joan Greenwood

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Born

Celia Johnson was born in Ellerker Gardens, Richmond, London on 18^th December, 1908.
Died

Celia Johnson died of a stroke in Nettlebed, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire on 26^th April, 1982, aged 73.

Watch Celia Johnson on British television

- Brief Encounter (1945)
- Friday at 1pm on London Live
- 5^th April at 2.10pm on London Live
- 7^th April at 1pm on London Live
- A suburban housewife on her weekly shopping visits develops a love affair with a local doctor; but he gets a job abroad and they agree not to see each other again.