 Not many achieve stardom in their '70s, but that is what happened to Johnson after her BAFTA-winning role as the little old lady whose Victorian rectitude outlasts and outwits a gang of thieves in The Ladykillers (d. Alexander Mackendrick, 1955). On the stage from 1894 and in numerous small film roles from 1932's After Office Hours (d. Thomas Bentley), she played many old ladies, including a German spy in I See a Dark Stranger (d. Frank Launder, 1946). Sadly, she died just two years and two films after her breakthrough. Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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