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Mervyn Johns

Grimshaw (Mervyn Johns) wears a hat and bow tie in My Learned Friend (1943) — Mervyn Johns, as Grimshaw, wears a hat in My Learned Friend (1943)

Mervyn Johns

1899–1992 | British actor

Welsh character actor, on stage from 1923; usually played mild-mannered roles

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Mervyn Johns was the father of actress Glynis Johns.

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Grimshaw (Mervyn Johns) wears a hat and bow tie in My Learned Friend (1943) — Mervyn Johns, as Grimshaw, wears a hat in My Learned Friend (1943)

Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) looks askance at Bob Cratchit (Mervyn Johns) in a scene from Scrooge (1951) — Alastair Sim looks askance at Mervyn Johns in Scrooge (1951)

Joan Greenwood (as Ruth Blake), Mervyn Johns (as Tom Blake), Nora Swinbourne (as Celia Blake), Joyce Howard (as Freda Blake) and Alfred Drayton (as Mr. Knight) in a screenshot from They Knew Mr Knight (1944) (3) — They Knew Mr Knight (1944) screenshot (3) | Joan Greenwood, Mervyn Joh

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Born

Died

Born

Mervyn Johns was born in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire on 18^th February, 1899.
Died

Mervyn Johns died in Northwood, London on 6^th September, 1992, aged 93.

Watch Mervyn Johns on British television

- The Halfway House (1944)
- Tuesday at 6pm on Talking Pictures
- Overnight guests at an inn find it was bombed a year before and they have all been given a supernatural chance to reconsider their lives.
- The Foreman Went to France (1942)
- Wednesday at 7.30am on Talking Pictures
- Before Dunkirk, a Welsh foreman is sent on a mission to salvage secret French machinery.
- Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)
- Saturday at 6pm on Talking Pictures
- In 1880 Brighton, a publican’s wife plans to have her husband poisoned.