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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

British actor (1899–1992) | Dead of Night (1945), The Vicious Circle (1957), Went the Day Well? (1942)

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

Mini Biography

Mervyn Johns was the father of actress Glynis Johns.

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Screenshot from the 1966 ‘The House on Dragon’s Rock’ episode of The Saint (1962-1969) (1) featuring Mervyn Johns — The House on Dragon’s Rock (1966) screenshot (1) | 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)

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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Personal Details

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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 Foreman Went to France (1942)
- Today at 12.20pm on Talking Pictures
- Before Dunkirk, a Welsh foreman is sent on a mission to salvage secret French machinery.
- The Day of the Triffids (1962)
- 16^th July at 1.50am on Talking Pictures
- Almost everyone in the world is blinded by meteorites prior to being taken over by intelligent plants.
- Saloon Bar (1940)
- 16^th July at 4.35pm on Talking Pictures
- A murder is solved during an evening in a pub.