What was the most famous roll that Glynis Johns played?

Answer 1

Mary Poppins (1964) .... Mrs. Winifred Banks

Answer 2

Hughes played more than 400 theatre roles, including the one for which he was perhaps most famous, in Hugh Leonard's Da. He won Broadway's 1978 Tony Award as Best Actor for his portrayal of the title role; he recreated the role for film in 1988 - Da.

Among his other notable roles:

"Osgood Meeker" in the Broadway production of Noel Coward's little-known play Waiting in the Wings, directed by Michael Langham (this was Barnard Hughes' last stage role)
"Old Man" in the Broadway production of Prelude to a Kiss, directed by Norman René
Polonius to Stacy Keach's Hamlet
Dogberry in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Much Ado About Nothing
Harry Hope in the 1985 Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh directed by José Quintero
Uncle Vanya (directed by Mike Nichols)
A Doll's House
Hogan's Goat (off-Broadway)
The Three Sisters
The Devil's Disciple
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Film roles

On screen, he appeared in Midnight Cowboy (1969) (which was the first (and only) X-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture), and also appeared in such films as The Hospital (1971), Oh, God! (1977), First Monday in October (1981), Tron (1982), The Lost Boys (1987), Da (1988) - the screen reprise of his most successful stage-role, and Doc Hollywood (1991).


Television roles

Hughes appeared on TV in such series as Naked City, The Secret Storm, Blossom and Homicide: Life on the Street. He had a notable appearance on All in the Family as a Catholic priest doing battle with Archie Bunker, and won an Emmy for his portrayal of a senile judge on Lou Grant.

He was the central character in three short-lived sitcoms, Doc, where he played a physician, Mr. Merlin, in which he played Merlin, a magician mentoring a 20th-century teenager, and The Cavanaughs, co-starring Christine Ebersole, where he played the family patriarch (Art Carney, playing his brother, and Glynis Johns made guest appearances). Hughes sang Danny Boy on one episode.

Barnard Hughes also made a number of recurring appearances on daytime dramas including Guiding Light and As The World Turns