Margaret JohnstonFilmography

Born:: August 10, 1917 in Coolangatta, Australia
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Australian lead actress, onscreen from 1940. ~ All Movie Guide...Read More

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Benefit of the Doubt

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Amy Irving, Rider Strong, Christopher McDonald, Graham Greene

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller, a woman wonders if she can trust her memory when her father returns from prison a very different man from the violent psychopath she remembers. Karen (Amy Irving) is a single mother who twenty years ago delivered the testimony that put her father Frank (Donald Read More

1993
Sebastian

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Nigel Davenport, Ronald Fraser, John Gielgud, Margaret Johnston

Synopsis: Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British government. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Susannah York. The film dwells upon Sebastian's rather lax morals (even by 1968 standards), culminating Read More

1968
The Psychopath

Actors: Patrick Wymark, Margaret Johnston, John Standing, Alexander Knox, Judy Huxtable

Synopsis: Though scripted by Psycho author Robert Bloch, this is neither a sequel nor a variant on the Alfred Hitchcock classic. Instead, we are presented with a more subdued British version of an Italian "giallo" thriller, as interpreted by acclaimed director Freddie Francis. The plot involves a pattern of Read More

1966
Life at the Top

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig, Donald Wolfit

Synopsis: Life at the Top is a belated sequel to Room at the Top, John Blaine's "angry young man" British novel that was made into a film in 1959. Laurence Harvey is back as Joe Lampton, the man-on-the-rise protagonist who in Room had given up true love in favor of a career-boosting (and antiseptic) Read More

1965
The Model Murder Case

Synopsis: When a beautiful model is found shot in her apartment, a famous television star is felt to be the murderer in a failed extortion plot. Although the investigation turns up a surprise ending, by the time most viewers get there they could not care less who did it. Singularly uninspired murder drama. Read More

1964
The Girl in the Headlines

Actors: Ronald Fraser, Ian Hendry, Margaret Johnston, Natasha Parry, Jeremy Brett

Synopsis: Inspector Birkett (Ian Hendry) and his faithful assistant Saunders (Ronald Fraser) are assigned to investigate the murder of a fashion model. they arrive at the scene of the crime, scouring the dead girl's apartment for clues. On the surface, it appears robbery is the motive, and the detectives Read More

1963
Night of the Eagle

Actors: Janet Blair, Peter Wyngarde, Margaret Johnston, Anthony Nicholls, Colin Gordon

Synopsis: Night of the Eagle was the second film version of Fritz Leiber Jr.'s Conjure Wife (the first was Weird Woman, perhaps the best of Universal's low-budget "Inner Sanctum" series of the 1940s). The film's title was possibly meant to invoke memories of the earlier Night of the Demon (58); both films Read More

1962
Touch and Go

Actors: Jack Hawkins, Margaret Johnston, June Thorburn, John Fraser, Roland Culver

Synopsis: Touch and Go stars Jack Hawkins as the head of a British family who decides to kick over the traces and emigrate to Australia. No one in the family, least of all wife Margaret Johnston, is enthused over this move, but they prepare themselves with dignity. As the technical and legal obstacles Read More

1955
The Light Touch

1955
Monsieur Ripois

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Germaine Montero, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Margaret Johnston

Synopsis: Rene Clement's Monsieur Ripois was released in English-speaking countries as The Knave of Hearts and Lovers, Happy Lovers. Relying heavily on voiceover narration and subjective camerawork, the film has Gerard Phillipe in the title role. Believing himself to be love with his wife's best friend Read More

1954
The Magic Box

Actors: Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell, Robert Beatty, John Charlesworth, James Kenney

Synopsis: The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously forsook their usual salaries for the privilege of paying tribute to that unsung pioneer of cinema, William Friese-Greene, here played by Robert Donat. Adapted by Eric Ambler Read More

1951
Portrait of Clare

Actors: Margaret Johnston, Richard Todd, Robin Bailey, Ronald Howard

Synopsis: Portrait of Clare is largely offered in flashback. The title character, played by Margaret Johnston, spends 10 years in seclusion with her son (Jeremy Spenser) after the death of her young husband (Ronald Howard). For her son's sake, Clare enters into a loveless marriage with lawyer Dudley Wilburn Read More

1950
A Man About the House

Actors: Margaret Johnston, Dulcie Gray, Guy Middleton, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: A novel by Francis Brett Young and its theatrical adaptation by John Perry were the sources for the even-keeled melodrama A Man About the House. Handsome Italian laborer Kieron Moore works as caretaker of the Neopolitan villa inherited by plain-Jane Englishwomen Margaret Johnston and Dulcie Gray. Read More

1947
Notorious Gentleman

Actors: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Godfrey Tearle, Jean Kent, Margaret Johnston, Griffith Jones

Synopsis: Rex Harrison stars in this stylish British drama that caused problems with U.S. censors, who forced the film to be trimmed due to what was considered graphically amoral and sexual content for its time. Harrison is Vivian Kenway, an unrepentant cad who embarks on a campaign of irresponsible Read More

1945

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Margaret JohnstonFilmography

Benefit of the Doubt

Sebastian

The Psychopath

Life at the Top

The Model Murder Case

The Girl in the Headlines

Night of the Eagle

Touch and Go

The Light Touch

Monsieur Ripois

The Magic Box

Portrait of Clare

A Man About the House

Notorious Gentleman

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