Mervyn Johns
Born: February 17, 1899
From: Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK

Mervyn Johns

Father of actress Glynis Johns, who appeared with him in The Halfway House (1944) and The Sundowners (1960). Stocky, benevolent-looking Welsh character who became an unexpected star of British movies during WWII, then moved quickly into post-war supports, with one of his fondly-remembered parts being that of the cowering "Bob Cratchit" to Alastair Sim's cold-hearted "Ebenezer Scrooge" in the definitive film version of A Christmas Carol (1951).

Films with Mervyn Johns

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Scrooge (1951)
1951 Brian Desmond Hurst

Scrooge (released as A Christmas Carol in the United States) is a 1951 British Christmas fantasy drama film and an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge

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