FrameThrower · Actors · Celia Johnson
Celia Johnson
2 films · 117 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1942–1945
Born 18 December 1908 · Richmond, Surrey, England, UK · died 26 April 1982
Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE was a British actress. She began her stage acting career in 1928, and subsequently achieved success in West End and Broadway productions. She also appeared in several films, including the romantic drama Brief Encounter (1945), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for BAFTA Awards on five occasions, and won twice, for her work in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), and for the television production Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, a BBC Play for Today broadcast in 1973.
Much of her later work was for television, and she continued performing in theatre for the rest of her life.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 117 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1942–1945
- Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
How their films are shot
Measured across 117 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Celia takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 65% of their frames are night, 54% low key — the look of the work Celia takes.
Time of day
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 117 frames from Celia Johnson's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.