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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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Personal Details

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 Vicious Circle (1957)
- Friday at 3.20am on Talking Pictures
- An actress is found dead in Dr Latimer’s flat and the weapon turns up in the boot of his car…
- The Captive Heart (1946)
- 29^th August at 8.40am on TCM HD
- 29^th August at 9.40am on TCM Plus 1
- Stories of life among British officers in a German POW camp, especially of a Czech who has stolen the papers of a dead Britisher.