John Mills

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O.H.M.S (You're in the Army Now) (1937): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. John Mills, Wallace Ford, Anna Lee…; Broad comedy with Ford as an American gangster who evades capture by joining the British army posing as a comedian.
Cottage to Let (1941): Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, John Mills…; Brit thriller focusing on an inventor in the business of bomb testing for the Air Ministry, whose supposedly innocent domestic staff is riddled with…
In Which We Serve (1942): Dir. David Lean
Feat. Sir Noel Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles…; WW2 drama contrasts the service lives of a destroyer crew with their memories of back home. Powerful film won an Oscar for writer, director and star…
We Dive at Dawn (1943): Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. John Mills, Eric Portman, Niall MacGinnis; Sturdy WWII actioner has a British sub sent out to sink a heavily–armed Nazi battleship with the help of three German sailors, but getting into…
This Happy Breed (1944): Dir. David Lean
Feat. Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills; Another David Lean–Noel Coward collaboration, the pair who later made the fine BRIEF ENCOUNTER. Here they turn their sensibilities to the…
Way to the Stars, The (1945): Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Douglas Montgomery…; An RAF airfield in WWII is the setting of this unassuming war–drama, set around the lives of the ‘flyers’ and the ground–crew. Given…
Great Expectations (1946): Dir. David Lean
Feat. John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles…; Esteemed treatment of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a young orphan aided by a mysterious benefactor brought major international success to the…
Scott of the Antarctic (1948): Dir. Charles Frend
Feat. John Mills; Ealing studios produced thie epic recount of Scott's final voyage to the South Pole. With John Mills.
History of Mr. Polly, The (1949): Dir. Anthony Pelissier
Feat. John Mills, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins…; Bracing comedy set in the Victorian era follows the various misfortunes of sensitive but ineffectual draper Mills as he sets out in search of…
Morning Departure (Operation Disaster) (1950): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough; A British submarine patrolling in the period just after WWII, hits a leftover mine and plunges seriously damaged to the sea–bed. The captain…
Gentle Gunman, The (1952): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, John Mills; Dirk Bogarde and John Mills are Irish brothers sent to London by the IRA during the Blitz, but one succumbs to pacifism.
End of the Affair, The (1954): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills; Original screen adaptation of Graham Greene’s tale of unrequited wartime love, with Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson entangled in a brief but illicit…
Colditz Story, The (1955): Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes; A compulsive and tightly wound prison yarn, set around the supposedly unescapable German POW camp. Britisher John Mills unites prisoners of various…
Above Us the Waves (1955): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. John Mills, Donald Sinden, John Gregson…; Robust submarine yarn from WW2 concerns the efforts of Commander John Mills and his men to sink the deadly German battle–ship 'Tirpitz' with…
Vicious Circle, The (Circle) (1957): Dir. Gerald Thomas
Feat. John Mills, Derek Farr, Lionel Jeffries; Neatly convoluted mystery has John Mills play an eminent medical specialist who is implicated in a murder when the body of a German actress turns up…
Ice Cold In Alex (1958): Dir. J. Lee-Thompson
Feat. John Mills, Anthony Quayle; After a hurried retreat from the siege of Tobruk, a band of medics and nurses in an ambulance, attempt an arduous crossing of the Libyan Sahara…
I Was Monty's Double (1958): Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Clifton James, John Mills, Leslie Phillips…; Absorbing war drama based on the true story of a man hired to imitate General Montgomery in order to hoodwink the Germans before the North Africa…
Dunkirk (1958): Dir. Leslie Norman
Feat. Richard Attenborough, John Mills, Bernard Lee…; British war film set during the 1940 evacuation of French and British troops from the beaches of Dunkirk, following the contrasting perspectives of a…
Tiger Bay (1959): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. John Mills, Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz; Haley Mills’ breakthrough is a memorable and mature British thriller; she plays witness to a murder by a Polish sailor, who she subsequent…
October Man, The (1960): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman…; Atmospheric pot–boiler in which John Mills plays an amnesiac accused of murder who fights to prove his innocence, apprehend the murderer and…
Swiss Family Robinson (1960): Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur; The shipwrecked family prove as resourceful as the eponymous army–knife in their fight for survival against Mother Nature and dastardly…
Tunes of Glory (1960): Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price…; Two colonels of a Scottish regiment – one convivial, one disciplinarian – face off in a battle of wills in this drama of peacetime…
Singer Not the Song, The (1961): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Mylene Demongeot…; Philosophical western is an oddity amongst the Rank canon with Bogarde as a campy Mexican bandit terrorising a catholic priest Mills. Homoerotic…
Chalk Garden, The (1964): Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills…; British melodrama based on the eccentric stage play by Enid Bagnold, with Hayley Mills playing a rebellious teenager who meets her match in governess…
Wrong Box, The (1966): Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine…; A classic black farce where two Victorian siblings (Richardson and Mills) scramble tooth and nail to collect a massive legacy, each trying to outwit…
Family Way, The (1966): Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, John Mills…; This Boulting Brothers classic is a hilarious yet affecting portrait of the marital difficulties of a young newlywed couple (Hywel Bennett and Hayley…
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969): Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. John Rae, Corin Redgrave, Maurice Roeves…; Powerful anti–war musical adapted from the play by Charles Chilton, which depicts the mass blunder of WWI through the experiences of the poor…
Young Winston (1972): Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Simon Ward…; The early life of Britain's greatest political leader, through his time in India, Sudan and the Boer War to his ascendancy at the House of Commons.
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972): Dir. Robert Bolt
Feat. Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain…; Playwright Robert Bolt (A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS) debuts as dir. with this intelligent account of the titular Englishwoman. Managing to rock early 19th…
Zoo Gang, The (TV Series) (1974): Feat. Brian Keith, John Mills, Barry Morse…; Old fashioned but fun espionage series centered around five aged resistance fighters scamming scamming the scammers and gifting the money to the…

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