John Mills

Bright Young Things (2003)

in the 1930’s a social set known to the press – who follow their every move – as the “Bright Young Things.” are Adam and his friends who are eccentric, wild and entirely shocking to the older generation. Amidst the madness, Adam, who is well connected but totally broke, is desperately trying to get enough money to marry the beautiful Nina. While his attempts to raise cash are constantly thwarted, ...

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Stephen Fry

Stars: Emily Mortimer | Michael Sheen | James McAvoy | Stephen Campbell Moore | Fenella Woolgar

Bean (1997)

As: Chairman

Bean works as a caretaker at Britain's formidable Royal National Gallery, and his bosses want to fire him because he sleeps at work all the time, but can't because the chairman of the gallery's board defends him. They send him to USA, to the small Los Angeles art gallery instead, where he'll have to officiate at the opening of the greatest US picture ever (called "Whistler's Mother").

Runtime: 89 min.

Directed by: Mel Smith

Stars: Harris Yulin | Rowan Atkinson | John Mills | Pamela Reed | Peter MacNicol

Hamlet (1996)

As: Old King Norway

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Runtime: 242 min.

Directed by: Kenneth Branagh

Stars: Derek Jacobi | Kate Winslet | Kenneth Branagh | Richard Briers | Julie Christie

Deadly Advice (1994)

As: Jack the Ripper

Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried, maids. Jodie has feelings for the local doctor, a man much older than her, for which her mother strongly disapproves. Beth finds a relationship with a male stripper in Bristol, but sees nothing in the future with Mother around. While both girls would like to be rid of Mother, ...

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Mandie Fletcher

Stars: Brenda Fricker | Jonathan Pryce | Jane Horrocks | Imelda Staunton | Edward Woodward

Harnessing Peacocks (1993)

As: Bernard Quigley

Sir John Mills, Peter Davison and Serena Scott Thomas star in this warm, funny and romantic story of a woman forced to make a new life for herself in a Cornish seaside town. Based on Mary Wesley’s bestselling novel, «Harnessing Peacocks» is adapted by the multi-award-winning Andrew Davies.

Runtime: 105 min.

Directed by: James Cellan Jones

Stars: Nicholas Le Prevost | John Mills | Peter Davison | Renée Asherson | Serena Scott Thomas

The Big Freeze (1993)

As: Dapper man

A silent comedy. Two accident-prone plumbers go to fix the plumbing at a home for retired gentle-folk on the coldest day of the year in Finland. Everything that can go wrong for these plumbers goes wrong.

Runtime: 45 min.

Directed by: Eric Sykes

Stars: Bob Hoskins | Donald Pleasence | Eila Roine | Eric Sykes | Raija Laakso

Frankenstein (1992)

As: De Lacey

In the early 19th century, Dr. Frankenstein (Patrick Bergin, Sleeping with the Enemy) discovers the secret of life – how to create a perfect man – powerful, intelligent and immune to disease. But something goes wrong in the laboratory and the doctor’s hideous creation (Randy Quaid, National Lampoon’s Vacation) disappears into the night. At first, Frankenstein hoped that the horrible monster would ...

Runtime: 117 min.

Directed by: David Wickes

Stars: Lambert Wilson | Randy Quaid | John Mills | Patrick Bergin | Fiona Gillies

Night of the Fox (1990)

As: Brig. Dougal Munro

An American officer on a Landing Craft carrying plans for the Allied invasion of Europe in Normandy takes part on landing maneuvers, his craft was attacked and sunk by German EBoats. and he finds himself on German occupied Jersey Islands. The Allies hatch a plot to rescue him by sending a British SOE agent impersonating an SD officer.

Runtime: 200 min.

Directed by: Charles Jarrott

Stars: Michael York | John Mills | Deborah Raffin | David Birney | George Peppard

The Lady and the Highwayman (1989)

As: Sir Lawrence Dobson

Set in old England, Hugh Grant ("Four Weddings & a Funeral", "Notting Hill") plays a highwayman who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. But during one of his robberies, he falls in love with an aristocratic lady, Emma Samms ("Star Quest", "Delirious"). Now, he is forced to choose between his true love or his true cause. This swash-buckling romantic adventure will have you on the edge of your seat ...

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: John Hough

Stars: Oliver Reed | Claire Bloom | Christopher Cazenove | Hugh Grant | Emma Samms

Who's That Girl (1987)

As: Montgomery Bell

An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he's asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female ex-convict whom asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: James Foley

Stars: John Mills | Griffin Dunne | Madonna | Bibi Besch | John McMartin

When the Wind Blows (1986)

As: Jim (voice)

With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II

Runtime: 84 min.

Directed by: Jimmy T. Murakami

Stars: John Mills | Peggy Ashcroft | David Dundas | Robin Houston

Murder with Mirrors (1985)

As: Lewis Serrocold

Marple has been summoned to the lavish country estate of her old friend Carrie Louise Serrocold (Bette Davis). Carrie's stepson has been killed, and she fears that his won't be the last corpse to befoul the estate. She's right, and the game is afoot for Miss Marple once more.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Dick Lowry

Stars: John Mills | Bette Davis | Leo McKern | Helen Hayes | Liane Langland

The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio (1985)

As: Himself

Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with his establishment of the legendary Pinewood Studios. Narrated by Michael Caine, THE GOLDEN GONG chronicles Pinewood's rise to success. - Richard ...

Runtime: 76 min.

Directed by: Tom Gutteridge

Stars: Michael Caine | Richard Attenborough | Dirk Bogarde | Albert R. Broccoli | Betty E. Box

Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984)

As: Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator

Sherlock Holmes (Peter Cushing) has retired. But when MacDonald (Gordon Jackson) asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There have been some mysterious murders, and there are no visible causes for the deaths. At the same time Holmes gets this case, Graf Udo Von Felseck (Anton Diffring) gives him another case: find a young and missing prince to prevent war between Germany and ...

Runtime: 72 min.

Directed by: Roy Ward Baker

Stars: John Mills | Peter Cushing | Anton Diffring | Ray Milland | Anne Baxter

Sahara (1983)

As: Cambridge

After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.

Runtime: 111 min.

Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen

Stars: John Rhys-Davies | Lambert Wilson | Brooke Shields | Horst Buchholz | Ronald Lacey

Gandhi (1982)

As: Lord Chelmsford

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

Runtime: 191 min.

Directed by: Richard Attenborough

Stars: Ben Kingsley | Candice Bergen | Edward Fox | Trevor Howard | John Gielgud

The Quatermass Conclusion (1979)

As: Prof. Bernard Quatermass

Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “Planet People”, and gathering at ancient sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Piers Haggard

Stars: Simon MacCorkindale | John Mills | Margaret Tyzack | Barbara Kellerman | Brewster Mason

Zulu Dawn (1979)

As: Sir Henry Bartle Frere

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership. Cy Endfield co-wrote the epic prequel Zulu Dawn 15 years after his enormously popular Zulu. Set in 1879, this film depicts the catastrophic Battle of Isandhlwana, which remains the worst defeat of the British army by natives, with the British contingent outnumbered 16-to-1 by the Zulu tribesmen. The film's ...

Runtime: 117 min.

Directed by: Douglas Hickox

Stars: Bob Hoskins | John Mills | Peter O'Toole | Denholm Elliott | Burt Lancaster

The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)

As: Scudder

The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian 'sleeper' agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is ...

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Don Sharp

Stars: John Mills | David Warner | Robert Powell | Eric Porter | Karen Dotrice

Dr. Strange (1978)

As: Thomas Lindmer

A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Philip DeGuere

Stars: Clyde Kusatsu | Jessica Walter | Peter Hooten | Philip Sterling | Anne-Marie Martin

The Big Sleep (1978)

As: Inspektor Carson

The classic Raymond Chandler tale retold with Mitchum taking over the Bogart role.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Michael Winner

Stars: Candy Clark | Robert Mitchum | Joan Collins | Sarah Miles | Richard Boone

Des Teufels Advokat (1977)

As: Monsignor Blaise Meredith

John Mills tops the cast as a dying priest who has been summoned to Rome for one last assignment. A dead wartime partisan is being considered for Sainthood. Mills is instructed to investigate the partisan's growing cult following and learn if the man is truly worthy of canonization.

Runtime: 109 min.

Directed by: Guy Green

Stars: John Mills | Stéphane Audran | Leigh Lawson | Jason Miller | Paola Pitagora

Trial by Combat (1976)

As: Colonel Bertie Cook

A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law into their own hands by executing criminals using medieval methods such as jousting.

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: Kevin Connor

Stars: Barbara Hershey | John Mills | Donald Pleasence | Peter Cushing | David Birney

The 'Human' Factor (1975)

As: Mike McAllister

After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Edward Dmytryk

Stars: Rita Tushingham | John Mills | George Kennedy | Raf Vallone | Barry Sullivan

Oklahoma Crude (1973)

As: Cleon Doyle

In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Stanley Kramer

Stars: Faye Dunaway | John Mills | Jack Palance | William Lucking | George C. Scott

Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)

As: Canning

Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.

Runtime: 123 min.

Directed by: Robert Bolt

Stars: John Mills | Jon Finch | Margaret Leighton | Richard Chamberlain | Sarah Miles

Young Winston (1972)

As: General Kitchner

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.

Runtime: 157 min.

Directed by: Richard Attenborough

Stars: Ian Holm | Anne Bancroft | Simon Ward | Robert Shaw | Jack Hawkins

Dulcima (1971)

As: Mr. Parker

John Mills plays a farmer who loves a drink but his farm is in a state of disrepair. He meets a young girl called Dulcima who takes pity on him and becomes his cleaner. He happy to have some company and she needs to earn the money. He finds himself falling for her but things get complicated when she starts seeing the gamekeeper. However, one day she discovers the farmer is a very rich man and decides she ...

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Frank Nesbitt

Stars: Stuart Wilson | John Mills | Sheila Raynor | Bernard Lee | Carol White

Ryan's Daughter (1970)

As: Michael

World War I seems far away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy goes horseback riding on the beach with the young English officer. There was a magnetic attraction between them the day he was the only customer in her father's pub and Rosy was tending bar for the first time since her marriage to the village schoolmaster. Then one stormy night some Irish revolutionaries expecting a ...

Runtime: 206 min.

Directed by: David Lean

Stars: John Mills | Robert Mitchum | Trevor Howard | Sarah Miles | Christopher Jones

Adam's Woman (1970)

As: Sir Philip MacDonald

Adam is a young American wrongly accused of being an accomplice to murder while on shore leave in Liverpool. He is sentenced to death by hanging but the sentence is commuted to twenty years in a convict settlement in Australia.

Runtime: 116 min.

Directed by: Philip Leacock

Stars: Beau Bridges | Andrew Keir | John Mills | James Booth | Jane Merrow

Run Wild, Run Free (1969)

As: The Moorman (Colonel)

Directed by Richard C. Sarafian, this 1969 British children's film stars Mark Lester as a young boy, unable to speak, who befriends both a wild colt with blue eyes and a falcon named "Lady". The cast also includes John Mills, Gordon Jackson and Sylvia Sims.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Richard C. Sarafian

Stars: Sylvia Syms | John Mills | Gordon Jackson | Mark Lester | Fiona Fullerton

Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

As: Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig

A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke ...

Runtime: 144 min.

Directed by: Richard Attenborough

Stars: Vanessa Redgrave | Maggie Smith | Corin Redgrave | John Mills | Laurence Olivier

Le calde notti di Lady Hamilton (1968)

As: Lord William Hamilton

The Making of a Lady: The Story of Lady Hamilton is a 1968 historical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Michèle Mercier, Richard Johnson and John Mills.[1] It was based on the novel La San-Felice by Alexandre Dumas and depicts the love affair between Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson. It was a co-production between Italy, West Germany, France and the United States.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Christian-Jaque

Stars: John Mills | Claudio Undari | Richard Johnson | Harald Leipnitz | Michèle Mercier

A Black Veil for Lisa (1968)

As: Inspector Franz Bulon

When a narcotics officer suspects that his beautiful wife, who is a former criminal, is having an affair, he becomes so obsessed with this that he has major problems to manage their work. In the end, his obsession with devastating consequences when he captures the assassin he hunts.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Massimo Dallamano

Stars: John Mills | Robert Hoffmann | Luciana Paluzzi | Renate Kasché | Tullio Altamura

Chuka (1967)

As: Colonel Stuart Valois

A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories.

Runtime: 105 min.

Directed by: Gordon Douglas

Stars: James Whitmore | Ernest Borgnine | John Mills | Luciana Paluzzi | Rod Taylor

Africa: Texas Style! (1967)

As: Wing Commander Hayes

Africa Texas Style is a 1967 British adventure film directed by Andrew Marton and starring John Mills, Hugh O'Brian and Nigel Green. Two American cowboys are hired by a British rancher to oversee his estate in Kenya. Shot on location in Africa, this film led to the TV show Cowboy in Africa starring Chuck Connors.

Runtime: 109 min.

Directed by: Andrew Marton

Stars: John Mills | Adrienne Corri | Nigel Green | Hugh O'Brian | Tom Nardini

The Family Way (1966)

As: Ezra Fitton

Following the wedding of young Jenny Piper and Arthur Fitton (Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett), a rowdy reception is held at a local pub where the newlyweds are subjected to much well-meaning but vulgar ribaldry. The couple returns to the Fitton home to spend their first night together before leaving for a honeymoon in Majorca, but they are followed by some of the wedding guests who keep the party going ...

Runtime: 115 min.

Directed by: Roy Boulting

Stars: Hayley Mills | Hywel Bennett | John Mills | Avril Angers | Marjorie Rhodes

The Wrong Box (1966)

As: Masterman Finsbury

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other... or can be made to have seemed to do so!

Runtime: 105 min.

Directed by: Bryan Forbes

Stars: Michael Caine | John Mills | Peter Cook | Ralph Richardson | Nanette Newman

King Rat (1965)

As: Smedley-Taylor

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. This was a POW detention center like no other. There were no walls or barbed-wire fences for the simple reason that there was no place for the prisoners to escape to. Included among the prisoners is the American Cpl. King, a wheeler dealer who has managed ...

Runtime: 134 min.

Directed by: Bryan Forbes

Stars: George Segal | James Fox | Patrick O'Neal | James Donald | Tom Courtenay

Operation Crossbow (1965)

As: General Boyd

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.

Runtime: 115 min.

Directed by: Michael Anderson

Stars: John Mills | Sophia Loren | Richard Johnson | Trevor Howard | George Peppard

The Truth About Spring (1965)

As: Tommy Tyler

Tommy Tyler, a lazy Caribbean sailor, and his tom-boy daughter, Spring, are out to search for a buried treasure. Tommy brings aboard William Ashton, a young lawyer, to help with the search. Ashton turns out to be handy when they encounter dangerous rivals. Tommy also tries to play match maker between Ashton and Spring – a difficult task indeed.

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Richard Thorpe

Stars: Hayley Mills | John Mills | Lionel Jeffries | Harry Andrews | James MacArthur

The Chalk Garden (1964)

As: Maitland

A grandmother seeks a governess for her 16 year old granddaughter, Laurel, who manages to drive away each and every one so far by exposing their past, with a record of three in one week! When an applicant with a mysterious past manages to get the job, Laurel vows to expose her. Meanwhile, Laurel's married-divorced-married mother tries to get her back.

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Ronald Neame

Stars: Hayley Mills | John Mills | Edith Evans | Deborah Kerr | Felix Aylmer

Tiara Tahiti (1962)

As: Lt. Col. Clifford Southey

James Mason and John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough colonel and a refined captain who clashed during the war, and continue their personal battle in peace-time Tahiti.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Ted Kotcheff

Stars: John Mills | Rosenda Monteros | Roy Kinnear | James Mason | Herbert Lom

The Valiant (1962)

As: Captain Morgan

Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the second World War , the two man crew of an Italian miniature submarine are captured and held prisoner whist the crew try and discover the nature of their mission!

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Roy Ward Baker

Stars: John Mills | Ettore Manni | Roberto Risso | Robert Shaw | Liam Redmond

Flame in the Streets (1961)

Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, ...

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Roy Ward Baker

Stars: Earl Cameron | Sylvia Syms | John Mills | Johnny Sekka | Brenda De Banzie

The Singer Not the Song (1961)

As: Father Michael Keogh

A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.

Runtime: 132 min.

Directed by: Roy Ward Baker

Stars: John Mills | Dirk Bogarde | Laurence Naismith | John Bentley | Mylène Demongeot

Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

As: Father

After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but soon face a danger even greater than nature: dastardly pirates. A rousing adventure suitable for the whole family, this Disney adaptation of the classic Johann Wyss novel stars Dorothy McGuire and John Mills as Mother and ...

Runtime: 126 min.

Directed by: Ken Annakin

Stars: John Mills | Dorothy McGuire | Sessue Hayakawa | James MacArthur | Janet Munro

Tunes of Glory (1960)

As: Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)

Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During the Second World War, as Second-in-Command, he was made acting Commanding Officer. Now the regiment has returned to Scotland, and a new commanding officer is to be appointed. Jock's own cleverness is pitted against his new CO, his daughter, his girlfriend, and the other officers in the Mess.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Ronald Neame

Stars: John Mills | Alec Guinness | Susannah York | Dennis Price | Kay Walsh

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959)

As: Barney

Ray Lawler's hit play inspired this poignant drama about the need to accept middle age despite the longing for youthful passion. The ensemble cast includes Ernest Borgnine and John Mills as Roo and Barney, who get a dose of reality during a holiday. Roo and his longtime girlfriend, Olive (Anne Baxter), cope with changes in their relationship while Barney tries to adjust to new ...

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Leslie Norman

Stars: Ernest Borgnine | John Mills | Frank Wilson | Angela Lansbury | Anne Baxter

Tiger Bay (1959)

As: Superintendent Graham

A Polish sailor and a young Welsh tomboy become unlikely allies after she witnesses him commit a crime of passion in the docklands area of Cardiff. With its location shooting and scenes of port city street culture, Tiger Bay presaged the cinema of the British New Wave, while Hayley Mills’ starring performance won the 12 year-old a special prize at the Berlin Film Festival and launched her career.

Runtime: 105 min.

Directed by: J. Lee Thompson

Stars: Hayley Mills | John Mills | Horst Buchholz | Megs Jenkins | Yvonne Mitchell

I Was Monty's Double (1958)

As: Major Harvey

The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German's about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: John Guillermin

Stars: John Mills | Bryan Forbes | Cecil Parker | Sid James | M.E. Clifton James

Ice Cold In Alex (1958)

As: Captain Anson

A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.

Runtime: 130 min.

Directed by: J. Lee Thompson

Stars: Sylvia Syms | John Mills | Harry Andrews | Anthony Quayle | Diane Clare

Dunkirk (1958)

As: Cpl Tubby Bins

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.

Runtime: 135 min.

Directed by: Leslie Norman

Stars: John Mills | Richard Attenborough | Bernard Lee | Ray Jackson | Robert Urquhart

The Circle (1957)

As: Dr. Howard Latimer

When Dr Howard Latimer finds the German Actress that he has just met at London Airport murdered in his flat, it leads him into the world of murder, blackmail and a fake passport scam.

Runtime: 84 min.

Directed by: Gerald Thomas

Stars: John Mills | Wilfrid Hyde-White | Derek Farr | Roland Culver | Noelle Middleton

Town on Trial (1957)

As: Supt. Mike Halloran

When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the local church spire, arrest the culprit. Another fascinating look at what life was like in Britain during the 50's.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: John Guillermin

Stars: John Mills | Charles Coburn | Derek Farr | Barbara Bates | Alec McCowen

The Baby and the Battleship (1957)

As: Puncher Roberts

After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. ...

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Jay Lewis

Stars: John Mills | Richard Attenborough | André Morell

It's Great to be Young! (1956)

IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle does his best to stand up for his students, only to be dismissed for his troubles. The kids conspire to not only reinstate their favourite teacher, but to circumvent Frome's refusal to purchase new instruments for an ...

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Cyril Frankel

Stars: John Mills | Mona Washbourne | John Salew | Cecil Parker | Elizabeth Kentish

Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

As: London Carriage Driver

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

Runtime: 175 min.

Directed by: Michael Anderson

Stars: Cantinflas | David Niven | Charles Boyer | Finlay Currie | Robert Morley

War and Peace (1956)

As: Platon Karataev

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.

Runtime: 208 min.

Directed by: King Vidor

Stars: Mel Ferrer | Vittorio Gassman | Herbert Lom | Henry Fonda | Audrey Hepburn

Escapade (1955)

As: John Hampden

An English pacifist's (John Mills) sons run away from school and hijack a plane to Vienna to petition for peace.

Runtime: 87 min.

Directed by: Philip Leacock

Stars: John Mills | Alastair Sim | Jeremy Spenser | Andrew Ray | Yvonne Mitchell

Above Us The Waves (1955)

As: Commandant Fraser

In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack by conventional means, so a plan is hatched for a special commando unit to attack it, using midget submarines to plant underwater explosives.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Ralph Thomas

Stars: John Mills | Michael Medwin | Donald Sinden | James Robertson Justice | John Gregson

The End of the Affair (1955)

As: Albert Parkis

A civil servant's wife (Deborah Kerr) in wartime London vows to leave her injured lover (Van Johnson) if he recovers.

Runtime: 105 min.

Directed by: Edward Dmytryk

Stars: John Mills | Peter Cushing | Michael Goodliffe | Deborah Kerr | Van Johnson

The Colditz Story (1955)

As: Pat Reid

Allied prisoners attempt to excape from an "escape-proof" German POW camp - Colditz Castle, during WWII. Classic British War drama.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Guy Hamilton

Stars: John Mills | Lionel Jeffries | Ian Carmichael | Eric Portman | Christopher Rhodes

Hobson's Choice (1954)

As: Willie Mossop

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: David Lean

Stars: John Mills | Prunella Scales | Charles Laughton | Daphne Anderson | Brenda De Banzie

The Long Memory (1953)

As: Phillip Davidson

1953 British noir thriller, starring John Mills. An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court. Based on a 1951 novel by Howard Clewes.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Robert Hamer

Stars: John Mills | Elizabeth Sellars | Geoffrey Keen | John McCallum | Eva Bergh

Mr. Denning Drives North (1952)

As: Tom Denning

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go ...

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Anthony Kimmins

Stars: John Mills | Herbert Lom | Sam Wanamaker | Phyllis Calvert | Eileen Moore

The Gentle Gunman (1952)

As: Terence Sullivan

The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.

Runtime: 86 min.

Directed by: Basil Dearden

Stars: John Mills | Dirk Bogarde | Robert Beatty | Elizabeth Sellars | Barbara Mullen

Morning Departure (1950)

As: Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong

The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Roy Ward Baker

Stars: John Mills | Richard Attenborough | Bernard Lee | George Cole | Nigel Patrick

The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)

As: Bassett

A strange and ultimately tragic tale of a young boy who learns how to pick winners at the racetrack by riding his rocking horse to aid his parents out of their endless round of debts.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Anthony Pelissier

Stars: John Mills | Hugh Sinclair | Valerie Hobson | John Howard Davies | Ronald Squire

The History of Mr. Polly (1949)

As: Alfred Polly

Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Anthony Pelissier

Stars: John Mills | Finlay Currie | Gladys Henson | Betty Ann Davies | Megs Jenkins

Scott of the Antarctic (1948)

As: Captain R.F. Scott R.N.

The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him

Runtime: 111 min.

Directed by: Charles Frend

Stars: Christopher Lee | John Mills | Kenneth More | James Robertson Justice | Derek Bond

The October Man (1947)

As: Jim Ackland

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash , is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Roy Ward Baker

Stars: John Mills | Joyce Carey | Kay Walsh | Edward Chapman | Joan Greenwood

So Well Remembered (1947)

As: George Boswell

A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.

Runtime: 114 min.

Directed by: Edward Dmytryk

Stars: John Mills | Trevor Howard | Martha Scott | Richard Carlson | Patricia Roc

Great Expectations (1946)

As: Pip

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, ...

Runtime: 118 min.

Directed by: David Lean

Stars: John Mills | Jean Simmons | Valerie Hobson | Bernard Miles | Tony Wager

The Way to the Stars (1945)

As: Pilot Officer Peter Penrose

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but ...

Runtime: 109 min.

Directed by: Anthony Asquith

Stars: John Mills | Douglass Montgomery | Renée Asherson | Michael Redgrave | Rosamund Greenwood

Waterloo Road (1945)

As: Jim Colter

During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.

Runtime: 76 min.

Directed by: Sidney Gilliat

Stars: John Mills | Alastair Sim | Stewart Granger | Joy Shelton | Alison Leggatt

This Happy Breed (1944)

As: Billy Mitchell

A middle-class family faces personal triumphs and tragedies when they move to a new home in the suburbs.

Runtime: 114 min.

Directed by: David Lean

Stars: Amy Veness | Celia Johnson | Alison Leggatt | Robert Newton | Stanley Holloway

We Dive at Dawn (1943)

As: Lt. Taylor RN

A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea Tiger are summoned from leave on shore with their families, and sent on a secret mission to intercept the Nazi battleship Brandenburg. In the ensuing battle the British submarine is damaged by a German destroyer. The submarine is leaking fuel so badly ...

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Anthony Asquith

Stars: John Mills | Jack Watling | Eric Portman | Louis Bradfield | Ronald Millar

The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)

As: William Wilberforce

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

Runtime: 118 min.

Directed by: Carol Reed

Stars: John Mills | Robert Morley | Phyllis Calvert | Robert Donat | Geoffrey Atkins

In Which We Serve (1942)

As: Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake

This is the story of a British Naval ship, the HMS Torrin, from it's construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ships first and only commanding officer is the experienced Captain E.V. Kinross who trains his men not only to be loyal to him but to the country and most importantly, to themselves. They face challenges at sea and also at home. They lose some of ...

Runtime: 114 min.

Directed by: Noël Coward | David Lean

Stars: John Mills | Michael Wilding | Derek Elphinstone | Robert Sansom | Noël Coward

The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)

As: Bobby Jessop

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.

Runtime: 80 min.

Directed by: Basil Dearden | Will Hay

Stars: John Mills | Thora Hird | Felix Aylmer | Basil Sydney | Will Hay

The Big Blockade (1942)

As: Tom

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

Runtime: 73 min.

Directed by: Charles Frend

Stars: John Mills | Leslie Banks | Michael Redgrave | Bernard Miles | Will Hay

Cottage to Let (1941)

As: Flt·Lieut. Perry

Cottage to Let is a 1941 spy film starring Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim and John Mills. Set in World War II Scotland, its plot concerns Nazi spies trying to kidnap an inventor.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Anthony Asquith

Stars: John Mills | Alastair Sim | Leslie Banks | Jeanne De Casalis | Carla Lehmann

Old Bill and Son (1941)

As: Young Bill

Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Ian Dalrymple

Stars: John Mills | Mary Clare | Morland Graham | René Ray | Renée Houston

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

As: Peter Colley - as a Young Man

A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people touched his life.

Runtime: 114 min.

Directed by: Sam Wood

Stars: John Mills | Paul Henreid | Greer Garson | Terry Kilburn | Robert Donat

The Green Cockatoo (1937)

As: Jim Connor

Song and dance man John Mills, guv’nor of the eponymous nitery, helps new-girl-in-town René Ray flee a false murder charge, except neither knows the corpse is Mills’ brother Robert Newton, and both cops and the real killers are hot on their trail. Music by Miklós Rózsa.

Runtime: 65 min.

Directed by: William Cameron Menzies

Stars: John Mills | Bruce Seton | René Ray | Julian Vedey | Charles Oliver

O.H.M.S. (1937)

As: Cpl. Bert Dawson

American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie is then forced to join the British army in the dead man's place. He falls in love with the Canadian's childhood playmate, Sally Briggs, and becomes a hero after saving an isolated English colony in China.

Runtime: 87 min.

Directed by: Raoul Walsh

Stars: John Mills | Wallace Ford | Anna Lee | Frank Cellier | Grace Bradley

Tudor Rose (1936)

As: Lord Guilford Dudley

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

Runtime: 80 min.

Directed by: Robert Stevenson

Stars: John Mills | Felix Aylmer | Cedric Hardwicke | Leslie Perrins | Nova Pilbeam

Broadway Gondolier (1935)

A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Lloyd Bacon

Stars: Dick Powell | Adolphe Menjou | William Gargan | Joan Blondell | Louise Fazenda

Forever England (1935)

As: Albert Brown

Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. There his bravery and marksmanship keeps a German ship in port so a British ship can sink it. He becomes a hero, but at what cost?

Runtime: 80 min.

Directed by: Walter Forde

Stars: John Mills | Jimmy Hanley | Howard Marion-Crawford | Barry MacKay | Betty Balfour

Car of Dreams (1935)

As: Robert Miller

Produced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of the owner of a musical instrument factory. He is in love with Vera, one of the factory workers, who is unaware of his position. So when she jokes one day that she would love a Rolls-Royce, Robert makes sure that she gets one. Then he decides to raise her salary out of all proportion to hint at who he is...

Runtime: 72 min.

Directed by: Graham Cutts | Austin Melford

Stars: John Mills | Robertson Hare | Norah Howard | Mark Lester | Grete Mosheim

Charing Cross Road (1935)

As: Tony

British drama film directed by Albert de Courville.

Runtime: 72 min.

Directed by: Albert de Courville

Stars: John Mills | Jean Colin | June Clyde | Belle Baker | Derek Oldham

Doctor's Orders (1934)

As: Ronnie Blake

Leslie Fuller stars as a quack whose son qualifies as a doctor in total ignorance of his father's occupation!

Runtime: 68 min.

Directed by: Norman Lee

Stars: John Mills | Ronald Shiner | Mary Jerrold | Marguerite Allan | Leslie Fuller

The Lash (1934)

As: Arthur Haughton

One of John Mills' earliest roles as a wastrel playboy.

Runtime: 63 min.

Directed by: Henry Edwards

Stars: John Mills | Leslie Perrins | Aubrey Mather | Lyn Harding | Peggy Blythe

A Political Party (1934)

As: Tony Smithers

A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in love with a girl who has reason to hope that the bigwig will be elected.

Runtime: 69 min.

Directed by: Norman Lee

Stars: John Mills | Moore Marriott | Enid Stamp-Taylor | Hal Gordon | Leslie Fuller

Those Were The Days (1934)

As: Bobby Poskett

A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation ...

Runtime: 80 min.

Directed by: Thomas Bentley

Stars: Iris Hoey | Claud Allister | Angela Baddeley | Will Hay | George Graves

The Ghost Camera (1933)

As: Ernest Elton

When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.

Runtime: 66 min.

Directed by: Bernard Vorhaus

Stars: John Mills | Ida Lupino | George Merritt | Henry Kendall | Victor Stanley

Britannia of Billingsgate (1933)

As: Fred Bolton

The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.

Runtime: 80 min.

Directed by: Sinclair Hill

Stars: John Mills | Drusilla Wills | Gordon Harker | Kay Hammond | Violet Loraine

The Midshipmaid (1932)

As: Golightly

The Midshipmaid is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Jessie Matthews, Frederick Kerr, Basil Sydney and Nigel Bruce.

Directed by: Albert de Courville

Stars: Basil Sydney | Claud Allister | Jessie Matthews | A.W. Baskcomb | Frederick Kerr

The Big Broadcast (1932)

As: John Mills

The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.

Runtime: 80 min.

Directed by: Frank Tuttle

Stars: George Burns | Bing Crosby | Stuart Erwin | Gracie Allen | Leila Hyams