GLYNIS JOHNS BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Glynis Johns was born on October 5th, 1923 in Pretoria, South Africa and is the daughter of actor, Mervyn Johns and Alys Maude a concert pianist.  She was born in South Africa while her parents were both on tour there. 
 
By the age of ten she was already able to work as a dance instructor and as her career progressed she showed the world that not only was she a talented dancer, but also a very capable singer, pianist and actress.  Her career lasted seven decades and she became most well known to audiences for her role in, "Mary Poppins" (1964) as the mother character. 
 
Her first stage performance was in 1935 in, "Buckie's Bears" as a ballerina and by 1938, she was appearing on such films as, "South Riding".  Other film roles soon followed such as, "Halfway House" (1944), "Miranda" (1948), "the Card" (1952), "Personal Affair" (1953), "Mad About Men" (1954), "The Court Jester" (1956), "All Mine to Give" (1957) and "The Sundowners" (1960) for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
 
Along with performing on the stage and working in the film industry, Johns was also seen in a number of television appearances such as, "A Little Night Music", "The Lloyd Bridges Show" (1962-1963) and an episode of, "Murder, She Wrote" (1984).  Some of her more recent film roles were in, "Nukie" (1988), "While You Were Sleeping" (1995) and "Superstar" (1999).
 
Glynis Johns married a total of four times throughout her lifetime.  Her first husband was Anthony Forwood from 1942 through 1948 and they had one child together.  She then married David Ramsey Foster in 1952 but this marriage ended shortly afterwards.  Her third time to marry was in 1960 to Cecil Henderson but this marriage also only lasted two years.  She then married her fourth husband, Elliot Arnold in 1964 and once again this marriage did not last long either.

Filmography

1999 Superstar 
1995 While You Were Sleeping 
1994 ABC Weekend Specials
1994 The Ref
1988-1989 Coming of Age 
1988 Nukie 
1988 Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School
1988 Zelly and Me
1987 The Cavanaughs 
1985 Murder, She Wrote 
1985 Murder in the Family
1984 Spraggue 
1984 The Love Boat 
1983 Cheer
1982 Little Gloria... Happy at Last 
1977 Three Dangerous Ladies 
1975 Mrs. Amworth 
1974 The Happy Prince
1973 The Vault of Horror 
1972 Under Milk Wood 
1969 Lock Up Your Daughters!
1968 Don't Just Stand There! 
1968 ITV Playhouse
1967 Batman
1965 Dear Brigitte
1964 12 O'Clock High
1964 Mary Poppins 
1964 The Defenders 
1964 Burke's Law 
1963 Glynis 
1963 Vacation Playhouse 
1963 Papa's Delicate Condition
1963 The Lloyd Bridges Show
1963 The DuPont Show of the Week 
1962 Saints and Sinners 
1962 The Beachcomber 
1962 The Chapman Report 
1962 The Cabinet of Caligari
1962 Dr. Kildare 
1962 The Dick Powell Theatre 
1961 Naked City 
1961 G.E. True Theater 
1961 The Roaring 20's 
1961 Adventures in Paradise 
1961 Kraft Mystery Theater
1960 The Sundowners 
1960 The Spider's Web
1959 Shake Hands with the Devil
1959 Last of the Few
1958 The Frank Sinatra Show
1958 Another Time, Another Place 
1957 Schlitz Playhouse
1957 All Mine to Give 
1956 The Errol Flynn Theatre 
1956 Around the World in Eighty Days
1956 Loser Takes All 
1956 The Court Jester
1955 Josephine and Men 
1954 Mad About Men 
1954 The Beachcomber
1954 Land of Fury
1954 Young and Willing
1953 Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue
1953 Personal Affair
1953 The Sword and the Rose 
1952 Studio One in Hollywood
1952 The Promoter 
1951 The Magic Box 
1951 Encore 
1951 Island Rescue
1951 No Highway in the Sky 
1951 Flesh & Blood 
1950 The Great Manhunt
1949 Dear Mr. Prohack
1949 Helter Skelter
1949 Third Time Lucky 
1948 Miranda
1947 An Ideal Husband 
1947 Frieda 
1946 This Man Is Mine
1945 Vacation from Marriage 
1944 The Halfway House
1943 Sabotage Agent 
1941 49th Parallel 
1941 The Prime Minister 
1940 The Thief of Bagdad 
1940 The Briggs Family 
1940 Under Your Hat 
1939 The Fugitive 
1938 Prison Without Bars
1938 Murder in the Family
1938 South Riding