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Also known as Glynis Margaret Payne Johns, Glynis John, Glynnis Johns

British actress (1923–2024)

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Glynis Johns was a British actress who had a long career in film, television, and theater spanning much of the 20th century. She is particularly remembered for her role in the classic film "Mary Poppins" and her work in Broadway musicals, making her a significant figure in entertainment history.

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Pretoria, South Africa

Glynis Johns (October 5, 1923 - January 4, 2024) was a South African-born British actress, dancer, musician and singer. Born in Pretoria, South Africa, while her parents were on tour, she is best known for originating the role of Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music on Broadway, for which she won a Tony Award, and for playing Winifred Banks in Walt Disney's musical motion picture Mary…

Known for

  • Six by Sondheim — Self (archive footage)2013
  • Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's — (archive footage)2009
  • The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics — Self2008
  • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: The Making of 'Mary Poppins' — Self2004
  • Superstar — Grandma1999
  • While You Were Sleeping — Elsie1995
  • The Ref — Rose Chasseur1994
  • The Secret Garden — Darjeeling (voice)1994
  • Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One — Self - Interviewee1993
  • Zelly & Me — Co-Co1988

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human
Gender
female
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Pretoria
Place of death
Los Angeles
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
singing
Instrument
piano
Image
Glynis Johns - still (cropped).jpg
Number of children
1
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end of work period
1999-00-00
date of birth
1923-10-05
Commons category
Glynis Johns
start of work period
1923-00-00
name in native language
Glynis Johns
date of death
2024-01-04
birth name
Glynis Margaret Payne Johns
subject has role
centenarian
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Encyclopedic overview

Glynis Margaret Payne Johns (5 October 1923 – 4 January 2024) was a British actress and singer. In a career exceeding seven decades on stage and screen, Johns appeared in more than 60 films and 30 plays. She received various accolades throughout her career, including a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Laurence Olivier Award. Before her death at age 100, she was considered one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood and classical years of British cinema.

Johns was born in Pretoria, South Africa, the daughter of Welsh actor Mervyn Johns. She appeared on stage from a young age and was typecast as a stage dancer from early adolescence, making her screen debut in South Riding (1938). She rose to prominence in the 1940s following her role as Anna in the war drama film 49th Parallel (1941), for which she won a National Board of Review Award for Best Acting, and starring roles in Miranda (1948) and Third Time Lucky (1949). Following No Highway in the Sky (1951), a joint British-American production, Johns took on increasingly more roles in the United States and elsewhere. She made her television and Broadway debuts in 1952 and took on starring roles in such films as The Sword and the Rose (1953), The Weak and the Wicked (1954), Mad About Men (1954), The Court Jester (1955), The Sundowners (1960), The Cabinet of Caligari (1962), The Chapman Report (1962), and Under Milk Wood (1972). On television, she starred in her own sitcom Glynis (1963).

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