John Mills

Born: 1908-02-22

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sir John Mills, CBE (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, 22 February 1908 – 23 April 2005) was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. On screen, he often played people who are not at all exceptional, but become heroes because of their common sense, generosity and good judgement.


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Who's That Girl

as Montgomery Bell
Released: 1987-08-07

An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he's...

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Dunkirk

as Cpl Tubby Binns
Released: 1958-03-20

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their...

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as Lord Chelmsford
Released: 1982-12-01

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes...

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Bean

as Chairman
Released: 1997-07-03

Childlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After...

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The Parent Trap

as Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
Released: 1961-05-13

Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years...

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War and Peace

as Platon Karataev
Released: 1956-08-21

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the...

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Operation Crossbow

as General Boyd
Released: 1965-04-01

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets...

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Ryan's Daughter

as Michael
Released: 1970-03-19

The wife of an Irish school teacher is branded a traitor when she falls for a British officer...

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Hamlet

as Old King Norway
Released: 1996-12-25

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying...

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Around the World in Eighty Days

as London Carriage Driver
Released: 1956-10-17

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the...

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When the Wind Blows

as Jim Bloggs (voice)
Released: 1986-10-24

With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and...

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Swiss Family Robinson

as Father
Released: 1960-12-21

After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an...

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Sahara

as Cambridge
Released: 1983-12-01

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

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Bright Young Things

as Gentleman
Released: 2003-10-03

During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with...

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Hobson's Choice

as William Mossop
Released: 1954-04-19

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford,...

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Ice Cold in Alex

as Captain Anson
Released: 1958-06-24

A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of...

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Great Expectations

as Pip
Released: 1946-12-26

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious...

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King Rat

as Smedley-Taylor
Released: 1965-10-27

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but...

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips

as Peter Colley as a Young Man
Released: 1939-07-28

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

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In Which We Serve

as Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake
Released: 1942-09-17

The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during...

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Zulu Dawn

as Sir Henry Bartle Frere
Released: 1979-05-14

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

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Morning Departure

as Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong
Released: 1950-02-21

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

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The Chalk Garden

as Maitland
Released: 1964-04-02

The peculiar antics of Laurel, an emotionally troubled young girl, are the focus of The Chalk...

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Cats

as Gus the Theatre Cat
Released: 1998-10-05

"Jellicle" cats join for a Jellicle ball where they rejoice with their leader, Old Deuteronomy....

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Dr. Strange

as Thomas Lindmer
Released: 1978-09-06

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

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The Big Sleep

as Inspector Carson
Released: 1978-03-13

Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of...

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The Wrong Box

as Masterman Finsbury
Released: 1966-06-19

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can...

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Young Winston

as General Kitchner
Released: 1972-07-20

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill,...

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Oh! What a Lovely War

as Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
Released: 1969-03-10

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys...

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Tiger Bay

as Superintendent Graham
Released: 1959-03-01

In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the...

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The Family Way

as Ezra Fitton
Released: 1966-12-18

Young newlyweds Arthur and Jenny Fitton want nothing more than to get their marriage started on...

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The End of the Affair

as Albert Parkis
Released: 1955-02-24

During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in...

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The Colditz Story

as Pat Reid
Released: 1955-01-25

Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an...

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This Happy Breed

as Billy Mitchell
Released: 1944-05-28

In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house,...

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Scott of the Antarctic

as Captain R.F. Scott R.N.
Released: 1948-11-29

The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try...

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The Lady and the Highwayman

as Sir Lawrence Dobson
Released: 1988-12-03

Set in old England, Hugh Grant ("Four Weddings & a Funeral", "Notting Hill") plays a highwayman...

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The Masks of Death

as Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator
Released: 1984-12-23

Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes....

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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

as Self – Interviewee
Released: 2010-05-05

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the...

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Tunes of Glory

as Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)
Released: 1960-09-17

Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer...

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I Was Monty's Double

as Major Harvey
Released: 1958-10-21

The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General...

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The Grotesque

as Sir Edward Cleghorn
Released: 1995-09-09

Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his...

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Forever Ealing

as Self
Released: 2002-12-05

This is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows...

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Oklahoma Crude

as Cleon Doyle
Released: 1973-07-03

In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is...

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Adam's Woman

as Sir Philip MacDonald
Released: 1970-03-19

Adam is a young American wrongly accused of being an accomplice to murder while on shore leave...

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The Vicious Circle

as Dr. Howard Latimer
Released: 1957-09-01

When Dr. Howard Latimer finds the German actress whom he had just met at the London Airport...

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The Singer Not the Song

as Father Michael Keogh
Released: 1961-01-05

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

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The Human Factor

as Mike McAllister
Released: 1975-11-19

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

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Emma Hamilton

as Lord William Hamilton
Released: 1968-11-28

The Making of a Lady: The Story of Lady Hamilton is a 1968 historical drama film directed by...

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The Baby and the Battleship

as Puncher Roberts
Released: 1956-06-01

After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds...

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So Well Remembered

as George Boswell
Released: 1947-07-09

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

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Murder with Mirrors

as Lewis Serrocold
Released: 1985-02-20

When Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time...

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We Dive at Dawn

as Lt. Taylor RN
Released: 1943-04-15

A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor,...

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The Thirty Nine Steps

as Scudder
Released: 1978-11-04

The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time...

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The Way to the Stars

as Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
Released: 1945-06-16

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of...

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The Young Mr. Pitt

as William Wilberforce
Released: 1942-09-21

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

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The History of Mr. Polly

as Alfred Polly
Released: 1949-02-08

Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to...

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Harnessing Peacocks

as Bernard Quigley
Released: 1993-11-28

Sir John Mills, Peter Davison and Serena Scott Thomas star in this warm, funny and romantic...

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The Devil's Advocate

as Monsignor Blaise Meredith
Released: 1977-10-26

A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime...

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Cottage to Let

as Flt·Lieut. Perry
Released: 1941-09-06

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime...

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Tudor Rose

as Lord Guilford Dudley
Released: 1936-09-01

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

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The October Man

as Jim Ackland
Released: 1947-08-28

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a...

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Mr. Denning Drives North

as Tom Denning
Released: 1951-12-18

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty...

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Lady Caroline Lamb

as Canning
Released: 1972-11-22

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

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The Green Cockatoo

as Jim Connor
Released: 1937-12-01

A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who...

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Dulcima

as Mr. Parker
Released: 1971-12-01

Dulcima, treated as a drudge by her family, becomes a housekeeper to Parker, a curmudgeonly...

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Trial by Combat

as Colonel Bertie Cook
Released: 1976-04-01

A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law...

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Town on Trial

as Supt. Mike Halloran
Released: 1957-08-01

When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local...

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Chuka

as Colonel Stuart Valois
Released: 1967-07-23

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

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The Truth About Spring

as Tommy Tyler
Released: 1965-03-30

Tommy Tyler, a lazy Caribbean sailor, and his tom-boy daughter, Spring, are out to search for a...

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Broadway Gondolier

as uncredited
Released: 1935-07-27

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

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The Gentle Gunman

as Terence Sullivan
Released: 1952-10-23

The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain...

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The Ghost Camera

as Ernest Elton
Released: 1933-01-31

When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window...

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Flame in the Streets

as Jacko Palmer
Released: 1961-06-19

Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions...

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Above Us the Waves

as Commandant Fraser
Released: 1955-03-29

In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While...

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The Rocking Horse Winner

as Bassett
Released: 1949-11-30

A strange and tragic tale of a young boy who is able to predict race winners at the horse track...

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The Quatermass Conclusion

as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Released: 1979-10-24

Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the...

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Deadly Advice

as Jack the Ripper
Released: 1994-04-29

Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see...

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Waterloo Road

as Jim Colter
Released: 1945-02-05

During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and...

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Tiara Tahiti

as Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
Released: 1962-07-01

James Mason and John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough colonel and a refined captain...

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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

as Self
Released: 2000-08-01

A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of...

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Brown on Resolution

as Albert Brown
Released: 1935-05-15

Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair...

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The Long Memory

as Phillip Davidson
Released: 1953-01-23

An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied...

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It's Great to be Young!

as Dingle
Released: 1956-12-26

IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When...

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The Valiant

as Captain Morgan
Released: 1962-06-13

Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the...

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Africa: Texas Style!

as Wing Commander Hayes
Released: 1967-05-01

Two American cowboys are hired by a British rancher to oversee his estate in Kenya. Shot on...

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One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1988-12-25

The gloriously glamorous Dame Edna entertains a celebrity audience in this 1988 special.

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Frankenstein

as De Lacey
Released: 1993-12-02

In the early 19th century, Dr. Frankenstein discovers the secret of life – how to create a...

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A Black Veil for Lisa

as Inspector Franz Bulon
Released: 1968-08-11

Franz Bulon is a police inspector intent on bringing down a major drug ring operating in...

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Run Wild, Run Free

as The Moorman (Colonel)
Released: 1969-03-28

Directed by Richard C. Sarafian, this 1969 British children's film stars Mark Lester as a young...

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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

as Barney
Released: 1959-12-01

Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their...

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Night of the Fox

as Brig. Dougal Munro
Released: 1990-11-27

An American officer on a Landing Craft carrying plans for the Allied invasion of Europe in...

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The Midshipmaid

as Golightly
Released: 1932-12-08

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter...

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The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

as uncredited
Released: 2003-08-24

Two-part Arena special celebrating the life and distinguished career of one of Britain's...

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The Black Sheep of Whitehall

as Bobby Jessop
Released: 1942-02-23

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to...

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The Big Freeze

as Dapper man
Released: 1993-11-17

A silent comedy. Two accident-prone plumbers go to fix the plumbing at a home for retired...

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O.H.M.S.

as Cpl. Bert Dawson
Released: 1937-01-01

American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian...

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Car of Dreams

as Robert Miller
Released: 1935-01-09

Produced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of...

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Escapade

as John Hampden
Released: 1955-08-05

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

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Royal Cavalcade

as Young Enlistee
Released: 1935-04-15

Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the...

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Old Bill and Son

as Young Bill
Released: 1941-03-01

Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second...

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Doctor's Orders

as Ronnie Blake
Released: 1934-11-01

Leslie Fuller stars as a quack whose son qualifies as a doctor in total ignorance of his...

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Britannia of Billingsgate

as Fred Bolton
Released: 1933-01-01

The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition:...

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The Big Blockade

as Tom
Released: 1942-01-19

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

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All Hands

as Jack
Released: 1940-05-31

From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing...

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A Profile of In Which We Serve

as Interviewee
Released: 2000-01-01

Documentary about the 1942 British film "In Which We Serve" directed by David Lean and Noël Coward.

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Those Were the Days

as Bobby Poskett
Released: 1934-04-02

A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a...

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Land of Promise

as The Voice
Released: 1946-01-02

Described as a 'film argument' about homes and houses, this film is in three parts showing...

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The Wind and the Bomb

as uncredited
Released: 1986-01-01

The making-of When the Wind Blows, featuring interviews with producer John Coates, director...

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The Way to Wimbledon

as Self - Commentator
Released: 1952-07-03

Focuses on the fifty weeks of the year when Wimbledon is preparing to host the next tennis...

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The Love Boat

as Bertram MacDonald
First aired: 1977-09-24

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...

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Tales of the Unexpected

as Sam Morrissey
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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Tales of the Unexpected

as William Perkins
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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Tales of the Unexpected

as The Man
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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The Merv Griffin Show

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran...

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An Audience with...

as Self
First aired: 1978-01-08

An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend...

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The Danny Kaye Show

as Self
First aired: 1963-09-25

The Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show hosted by Danny Kaye that aired on CBS from 1963...

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Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

as Self
First aired: 2001-11-02

Jonathan Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from...

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Nanny and the Professor

as Uncle Alfred
First aired: 1970-01-21

Nanny and the Professor is an American fantasy situation comedy created by AJ Carothers and...

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The Dame Edna Experience

as Self
First aired: 1987-09-12

The Dame Edna Experience is a British television comedy talk-show hosted by Dame Edna Everage....

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Hotel

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-08-21

Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May...

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The American Film Institute Salute to ...

as Self
First aired: 1973-04-02

In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a...

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Wogan

as Self
First aired: 1982-05-04

Wogan is a British television chat show

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Around the World in 80 Days

as Faversham
First aired: 1989-04-16

Around the World in 80 Days is a 1989 three-part television Eastmancolor miniseries originally...

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Dundee and the Culhane

as Dundee
First aired: 1967-09-06

Dundee and the Culhane is an American Western television series starring John Mills and Sean...

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A Woman of Substance

as Henry Rossiter
First aired: 1985-01-02

The life of Emma Harte, from kitchen maid at the beginning of the twentieth century, to...

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The Zoo Gang

as Thomas "The Elephant" Devon
First aired: 1974-04-05

Six resistance fighters, known by their animal-based code names, fought during World War II....

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Talking Pictures

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2013-01-05

A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to...

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A Tale of Two Cities

as Jarvis Lorry
First aired: 1989-05-21

A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer,...

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Martin Chuzzlewit

as Mr. Chuffey
First aired: 1994-11-07

When old Martin Chuzzlewit disinherits his grandson, he falls prey to a host of rapacious relatives.

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Quatermass

as Bernard Quatermass
First aired: 1979-10-24

In the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his...

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Hold the Dream

as Henry Rossiter
First aired: 1986-10-27

The follow-up to A Woman of Substance with Emma Harte at age eighty in the last winter of her...

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