John Mills
Actor
- 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…
- 39 Steps, The (Thirty-Nine Steps, The) (1978)
- Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter…
- Perhaps the most literally faithful of the various adaptations of John Buchan's classic suspense novel. Powell plays the man on the run in…
- Quatermass (TV Mini Series) (1978)
- Dir. Piers Haggard
Feat. John Mills, Simon MacCorkindale
- Sir John Mills gives a great late performances as the legendary 1950s hero Professor Quatermass in this TV mini–series conclusion to Nigel…
- Zulu Dawn (1979)
- Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Phil Daniels…
- Prequel to ZULU is a vivid recreation of the Battle of Isandhlwana.
- Gandhi (1982)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox…
- Epic retelling of the life of the inspirational Indian leader with Ben Kingsley as 'The Mahatma'. Won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture.
- When the Wind Blows (1986)
- Dir. Jimmy T. Murakami
Feat. John Mills, Peggy Ashcroft
- Superb animated version of Raymond Brigg's comicbook about an elderly couple who prepare for an impending nuclear disaster. Engaging and powerful…
- Tale of Two Cities, A (Mini-series) (1989)
- Dir. Philippe Monnier
Feat. James Wilby, John Mills, Jean-Pierre Aumont…
- BBC TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' great, historical novel of the French Revolution, in the shadow of which two, very different men fall for the…
- Night of the Fox (TV Mini-series) (1990)
- Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Michael York, George Peppard, Deborah Raffin…
- An American officer is captured on German soil during WWII and a daring plot is hatched by the allies to rescue him. based on the novel by Jack…
- Deadly Advice (1993)
- Dir. Mandie Fletcher
Feat. Jane Horrocks, Brenda Fricker, Jonathan Pryce…
- A wicked little black comedy about murder in small, genteel provincial town on the Welsh borders. The twist is to have the bickering ghosts of…
- Martin Chuzzlewit (Mini-series) (1994)
- Dir. Pedr James
Feat. Keith Allen, Paul Scofield, John Mills…
- BAFTA–winning, Emmy–nominated BBC adaptation of the great Charles Dickens satire of American life, death and family fortunes, starring…