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Celia Johnson

1908 - 1982

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Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson, (18 December 1908 – 26 April 1982) was an English actress, whose career included stage, television and film. She is especially known for her roles in the films In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1944), Brief Encounter (1945) and The Captain's Paradise (1953). For Brief Encounter, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Celia Johnson has received more than 963,830 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Celia Johnson is the 6,506th most popular actor (down from 5,299th in 2019), the 4,788th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,045th in 2019) and the 734th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 960k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Celia Johnsons by language

Over the past year Celia Johnson has had the most page views in the with 145,414 views, followed by Italian (3,075), and Spanish (3,045). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Asturian (51.43%), Indonesian (43.60%), and Egyptian Arabic (42.86%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Celia Johnson ranks 6,506 out of 13,578. Before her are Carmen Zapata, Virginia Fox, John Russell, Jean Kent, Oscar Nunez, and Elizabeth Peña. After her are Melissa George, Harry Groener, Patrick Warburton, Gloria Talbott, Persis Khambatta, and Songül Öden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Celia Johnson ranks 374. Before her are Heinz Pollay, Vladimir I. Georgiev, Albert Maltz, Ed Gordon, Constant Joacim, and George Rodger. After her are Louis Hostin, Jesús Castro, Noël Liétaer, Alexey Okladnikov, Stanley Wagner, and Gheorghe Ciolac. Among people deceased in 1982, Celia Johnson ranks 270. Before her are Renato Sáinz, Yury Kazakov, Philip Hall, Václav Mottl, Gopal Swarup Pathak, and Virginia Fox. After her are Francisco Gamborena, Erwin Casmir, Kim Duk-koo, Dorothy Round, Kenneth Rexroth, and Willi Multhaup.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Celia Johnson ranks 4,788 out of 8,785. Before her are Grahame Clark (1907), Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842), Daniel Massey (1933), Mary Midgley (1919), Geoffrey Unsworth (1914), and Jean Kent (1921). After her are Jermain Defoe (1982), Chris Smalling (1989), Shirley Brasher (1934), Richard Brake (1964), Tommy Steele (1936), and Don Finlay (1909).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Celia Johnson ranks 734. Before her are Nicollette Sheridan (1963), Juliet Stevenson (1956), Heather Angel (1909), Patricia Quinn (1944), Daniel Massey (1933), and Jean Kent (1921). After her are Richard Brake (1964), Lesley Nicol (1953), Judy Cornwell (1940), Will Poulter (1993), Prunella Scales (1932), and Naomi Scott (1993).

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Television and Movie Roles

This Happy Breed
Ethel Gibbons
In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival.
May 28o 19447.098 / 10
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Miss Mackay
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
Feb 24o 19696.87 / 10
Brief Encounter
Laura Jesson
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
Nov 24o 19457.7 / 10