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Katie Johnson is a Actor British born on 18 november 1878
Katie Johnson (18 November 1878 in Clayton, Sussex, – 4 May 1957 in Elham, Kent), born Bessie Kate Johnson, was an English actress who appeared on stage from 1894 and on screen from the 1930s to the 1950s. In 1908 she married the actor Frank Goodenough Bayly (1873 – 28 November 1923, Newcastle upon Tyne).
She first appeared in a film at age 53, in 1932, but never received critical acclaim for her performances until 1955, when she starred, aged 76, in the Ealing Studios comedy The Ladykillers as Mrs Louisa Wilberforce. The role earned her a British Film Academy award for best British actress. She died less than two years afterwards having only appeared in a single further film.
She also appeared in the BBC science fiction serial The Quatermass Experiment (1953) and played a spy in I See a Dark Stranger (1946).
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Katie Johnson
Birth name Bessie Kate Johnson
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 18 november 1878
Death 4 may 1957 (at 78 years) at Elham (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 18 november 1878
Death 4 may 1957 (at 78 years) at Elham (United-kingdom)
She first appeared in a film at age 53, in 1932, but never received critical acclaim for her performances until 1955, when she starred, aged 76, in the Ealing Studios comedy The Ladykillers as Mrs Louisa Wilberforce. The role earned her a British Film Academy award for best British actress. She died less than two years afterwards having only appeared in a single further film.
She also appeared in the BBC science fiction serial The Quatermass Experiment (1953) and played a spy in I See a Dark Stranger (1946).
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How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957)
, 1h19Directed by Nigel Patrick
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Nigel Patrick, Charles Coburn, Wendy Hiller, Katie Johnson, Anthony Newley, Athene Seyler
Roles Alice
Rating68%
The Ladykillers (1955)
, 1h31Directed by Alexander Mackendrick
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Jack Warner, Katie Johnson
Roles Mrs. Wilberforce
Rating75%
Mrs. Louisa Alexandra Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) is a sweet and eccentric old widow who lives alone with her raucous parrots in a gradually subsiding "lopsided" house, built over the entrance to a railway tunnel in Kings Cross, London. With nothing to occupy her time and an active imagination, she is a frequent visitor to the local police station where she reports fanciful suspicions regarding neighbourhood activities. Having led wild-goose chases in the past, she is humoured by the officers there who give her reports no credence whatever.
John and Julie (1955)
, 1h22Directed by William Fairchild
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Moira Lister, Colin Gibson, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Sid James, Megs Jenkins, Joseph Tomelty
Roles Old Lady
Rating65%
John (Gibson) and Julie (Dudley) are two children who are eager to see the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in spite of the fact that their parents have no intention of going. So the two run off to London when left alone. Along their way, they encounter different quirky and eccentric people.
The Delavine Affair (1955)
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Honor Blackman, Gordon Jackson, Michael Balfour, Laurie Main, Katie Johnson, Peter Swanwick
Roles Mrs. Bissett
Rating55%
Three Steps In The Dark (1953)
, 1h1Directed by Daniel Birt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Greta Gynt, Hugh Sinclair, Sarah Lawson, Elwyn Brook-Jones, John Van Eyssen, Katie Johnson
Roles Mrs Riddle
Rating56%
A rich but disliked elderly man invites his relatives to a family reunion at his home. Once the gathering is complete, he announces enigmatically that he intends to change his will before he dies. Before he can do this, he is murdered. His niece (Gynt), a detective story writer, has to put her theories into practice by solving a real-life murder mystery.
The Large Rope (1953)
Directed by Wolf Rilla
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Donald Houston, Susan Shaw, Robert Brown, Vanda Godsell, Peter Byrne, Richard Warner
Roles Grandmother
Rating60%
After his release from prison, a man returns to the village where he is accused of murdering a girl.
I Believe in You (1952)
, 1h35Directed by Basil Dearden, Michael Leighton George Relph
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films
Actors Celia Johnson, Cecil Parker, Alastair Sim, Godfrey Tearle, Harry Fowler, George Relph
Roles Miss Macklin
Rating67%
Henry Phipps a retired Colonial Serviceman takes on the job of a probation officer, and finds it a challenge. Various characters lives are examined as Phipps and his colleagues attempt to reform (amongst others), a hardened criminal and a juvenile delinquent.
Lady in the Fog (1952)
, 1h13Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Cesar Romero, Lois Maxwell, Campbell Singer, Geoffrey Keen, Mary Mackenzie, Wensley Pithey
Roles Mad Mary - Old Inmate at Murder Scene
Rating55%
An English woman asks for help from a visiting American detective to London to help her find out who has killed her brother.
The Shop at Sly Corner (1947)
, 1h31Directed by George King
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Garry Marsh, Irene Handl, Diana Dors, Oskar Homolka, Derek Farr, Kathleen Harrison
Roles Woman in Shop
Rating65%
A wealthy French refugee (Homolka) lives a comfortable life as an antique dealer in London, but when an employee (Griffith) discovers that his money comes from fencing stolen goods, the employee attempts to blackmail the Frenchman, with fatal results. The antique dealer cares only for his concert violinist daughter (Pavlow), and when he sees her future is threatened, he kills the blackmailer.
Meet Me at Dawn (1947)
, 1h39Directed by Thornton Freeland
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Adventure
Actors William Eythe, Stanley Holloway, Hazel Court, Beatrice Campbell, Basil Sydney, Margaret Rutherford
Rating57%
I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
, 1h52Directed by Frank Launder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Michael Howard, Norman Shelley, Brenda Bruce
Roles Old Lady on Train
Rating69%
In May 1944, during World War II, when nationalistic Irishwoman Bridie Quilty (Deborah Kerr) turns 21, she sets out to fulfill a lifelong dream engendered by listening to her late father's stories of the Irish Revolution. She leaves her small rural village and goes to Dublin. On the way, she shares a train compartment with J. Miller (Raymond Huntley), but believing him to be English, she is very brusque with him. Once in the city, she seeks out a famous ex-radical her father had supposedly fought alongside, Michael O'Callaghan (Brefni O'Rorke), and asks him to help her join the Irish Republican Army. However, he has mellowed as the situation in Ireland has improved and tries unsuccessfully to dissuade her from her overly romantic notion.
The Years Between (1946)
, 1h28Directed by Compton Bennett
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson, Felix Aylmer, Dulcie Gray, Edward Rigby
Roles Old Man's Wife
Rating66%
The film charts the homecoming of a British MI6 officer, who had been working with the French Resistance and was presumed dead. His wife is about to marry again, and to become an MP, and all must now readjust to the new situation.
Tawny Pipit (1944)
, 1h21Directed by Bernard Miles, Charles Saunders
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Bernard Miles, Rosamund John, Niall MacGinnis, Jean Gillie, Lucie Mannheim, Brefni O'Rorke
Roles Miss Pyman
Rating65%
During the Second World War Jimmy Bancroft (Niall MacGinnis), a fighter pilot just released from hospital, and his nurse (now his girlfriend) Hazel Broome (Rosamund John) are on a walking tour through the countryside. They arrive at the fictional village of Lipsbury Lea and, being keen birdwatchers, discover that a pair of tawny pipits, which are rarely seen in England, are nesting nearby.
He Snoops to Conquer (1944)
, 1h43Directed by Marcel Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors George Formby, Elizabeth Allen, Elizabeth Allan, Aubrey Mallalieu, Gordon McLeod, Katie Johnson
Roles Ma, George's Landlady
Rating63%
The film is set in immediate post-war Britain. After being ordered to do a piece on town planning two newspapermen randomly pick on the small, industrial town of Tangleton. After arriving at the town hall the only man they can find working is the odd job man, George Gribble, who gives them a guided tour of the town. However, they run a negative angle on the story highlighting the fact that the wealthy leader of the council, Mr Oxbold, lives in a giant house by himself while Gribble is one of fourteen staying in a tiny slum house. When they read the article, the town's leaders order Gribble to do an public opinion investigation around the town. Instead of doing a cross section as ordered, he interviews the entire town's population. The results he produces shock the town's complacent leaders, who discover the people are deeply unhappy with the status quo and wants radical changes in living conditions and other services. This is a blow to the council leader and his colleagues who all have financial interests in keeping the town as it is. Oxbold is a slum landlord who fears a Whitehall scheme to demolish much of the existing town and rebuild it with council houses. To avert this, Oxbold and his colleagues decide to send off to London only those limited number of forms which praise the current situation. Gribble is ordered to burn the rest but, not wishing to waste paper, he puts them out for salvage instead.
The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
, 1h20Directed by Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney, Henry Hewitt, Felix Aylmer, Frank Cellier
Roles Train Passenger
Rating66%
When he is forced to vacate the office of his debt-ridden correspondence college, 'Professor' Will Davis (Will Hay) goes to the Ministry of International Commerce at Whitehall in order to confront his one-and-only student, PR man Bobby Jessop (John Mills). To get Davis off his back, Jessop proposes to get him a job at Whitehall. Jessop then leaves in order to fetch a Professor Davys at the railway station. The professor is a leading economist who has returned from a long stay in South America in order to advise the British government on a trade treaty with the South American nations, which could be crucial to Britain's war effort.