John Mills
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.
Who's That Girl
as Montgomery BellAn uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he's...
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The Parent Trap
as Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years...
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Bean
as ChairmanChildlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After...
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Around the World in Eighty Days
as London Carriage DriverBased on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the...
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Swiss Family Robinson
as FatherAfter being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an...
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In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes...
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War and Peace
as Platon KarataevNapoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the...
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When the Wind Blows
as Jim Bloggs (voice)With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and...
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Great Expectations
as PipIn this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious...
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Hamlet
as Old King NorwayHamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying...
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Zulu Dawn
as Sir Henry Bartle FrereIn 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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Bright Young Things
as GentlemanDuring the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with...
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
as Peter Colley as a Young ManA shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who...
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Cats
as Gus the Theatre Cat"Jellicle" cats join for a Jellicle ball where they rejoice with their leader, Old Deuteronomy....
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Dr. Strange
as Thomas LindmerA psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil...
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Operation Crossbow
as General BoydAllied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets...
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Ryan's Daughter
as MichaelThe wife of an Irish school teacher is branded a traitor when she falls for a British officer...
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Hobson's Choice
as William MossopHenry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford,...
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Dunkirk
as Cpl Tubby BinnsA British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their...
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The Big Sleep
as Inspector CarsonPrivate eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of...
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The Wrong Box
as Masterman FinsburyIn Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can...
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Sahara
as CambridgeAfter her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up...
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The Colditz Story
as Pat ReidAllied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an...
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In Which We Serve
as Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty BlakeThe story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during...
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King Rat
as Smedley-TaylorWhen Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but...
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Ice Cold in Alex
as Captain AnsonA group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of...
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Oh! What a Lovely War
as Field Marshall Sir Douglas HaigThe working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys...
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Tiger Bay
as Superintendent GrahamIn Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the...
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Chuka
as Colonel Stuart ValoisA group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories.
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The Chalk Garden
as MaitlandThe peculiar antics of Laurel, an emotionally troubled young girl, are the focus of The Chalk...
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Scott of the Antarctic
as Captain R.F. Scott R.N.The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try...
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Tunes of Glory
as Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer...
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The Lady and the Highwayman
as Sir Lawrence DobsonSet in old England, Hugh Grant ("Four Weddings & a Funeral", "Notting Hill") plays a highwayman...
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The Human Factor
as Mike McAllisterAfter his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to...
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Above Us the Waves
as Commandant FraserIn World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While...
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Young Winston
as General KitchnerThis historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill,...
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The Thirty Nine Steps
as ScudderThe 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 PenroseLife on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of...
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Lady Caroline Lamb
as CanningLady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet...
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Murder with Mirrors
as Lewis SerrocoldWhen Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time...
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This Happy Breed
as Billy MitchellIn 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house,...
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The Truth About Spring
as Tommy TylerTommy Tyler, a lazy Caribbean sailor, and his tom-boy daughter, Spring, are out to search for a...
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We Dive at Dawn
as Lt. Taylor RNA gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor,...
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Run Wild, Run Free
as The Moorman (Colonel)A young boy, unable to speak, befriends a wild colt with blue eyes and a falcon named "Lady".
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Self – IntervieweeIn 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the...
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The Long Memory
as Phillip DavidsonAn innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied...
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A Black Veil for Lisa
as Inspector Franz BulonFranz Bulon is a police inspector intent on bringing down a major drug ring operating in...
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Oklahoma Crude
as Cleon DoyleIn 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is...
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Old Bill and Son
as Young BillOld Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second...
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The Family Way
as Ezra FittonYoung 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 ParkisDuring the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in...
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The Rocking Horse Winner
as BassettA strange and tragic tale of a young boy who is able to predict race winners at the horse track...
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Forever Ealing
as SelfThis is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows...
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It's Great to be Young!
as DingleIT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When...
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Town on Trial
as Supt. Mike HalloranWhen an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local...
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The Masks of Death
as Dr. John H. Watson / NarratorSherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes....
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I Was Monty's Double
as Major HarveyThe incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General...
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Flame in the Streets
as Jacko PalmerFlame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions...
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The Grotesque
as Sir Edward CleghornSir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his...
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Dulcima
as Mr. ParkerDulcima, treated as a drudge by her family, becomes a housekeeper to Parker, a curmudgeonly...
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Morning Departure
as Lt. Cmdr. ArmstrongThe crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued...
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The Young Mr. Pitt
as William WilberforceThis biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great...
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Waterloo Road
as Jim ColterDuring WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and...
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Frankenstein
as De LaceyIn the early 19th century, Dr. Frankenstein discovers the secret of life – how to create a...
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The October Man
as Jim AcklandJim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a...
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Escapade
as John HampdenAn English pacifist's (John Mills) sons run away from school and hijack a plane to Vienna to...
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Mr. Denning Drives North
as Tom DenningWhen well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty...
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The Vicious Circle
as Dr. Howard LatimerWhen Dr. Howard Latimer finds the German actress whom he had just met at the London Airport...
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The Midshipmaid
as GolightlySir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter...
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Cottage to Let
as Flt·Lieut. PerryAllied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime...
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The Baby and the Battleship
as Puncher RobertsAfter a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds...
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The Valiant
as Captain MorganHaving placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the...
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The Green Cockatoo
as Jim ConnorA young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who...
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Harnessing Peacocks
as Bernard QuigleySir John Mills, Peter Davison and Serena Scott Thomas star in this warm, funny and romantic...
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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
as SelfA film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of...
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Africa: Texas Style!
as Wing Commander HayesTwo American cowboys are hired by a British rancher to oversee his estate in Kenya. Shot on...
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O.H.M.S.
as Cpl. Bert DawsonAmerican racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian...
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A Profile of In Which We Serve
as IntervieweeDocumentary about the 1942 British film "In Which We Serve" directed by David Lean and Noël Coward.
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The Singer Not the Song
as Father Michael KeoghA Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
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Adam's Woman
as Sir Philip MacDonaldAdam is a young American wrongly accused of being an accomplice to murder while on shore leave...
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Broadway Gondolier
as uncreditedA taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
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Tudor Rose
as Lord Guilford DudleyThe tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before...
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The Gentle Gunman
as Terence SullivanThe relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain...
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So Well Remembered
as George BoswellA mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
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The History of Mr. Polly
as Alfred PollyQuiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to...
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The Big Blockade
as TomWartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the...
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The Devil's Advocate
as Monsignor Blaise MeredithA dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime...
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Emma Hamilton
as Lord William HamiltonThe Making of a Lady: The Story of Lady Hamilton is a 1968 historical drama film directed by...
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Britannia of Billingsgate
as Fred BoltonThe owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition:...
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Deadly Advice
as Jack the RipperMother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see...
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Trial by Combat
as Colonel Bertie CookA group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law...
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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
as BarneyTwo Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their...
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Tiara Tahiti
as Lt. Col. Clifford SoutheyJames Mason and John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough colonel and a refined captain...
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The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
as uncreditedTwo-part Arena special celebrating the life and distinguished career of one of Britain's...
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Royal Cavalcade
as Young EnlisteeMade in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the...
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Car of Dreams
as Robert MillerProduced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of...
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The Ghost Camera
as Ernest EltonWhen a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window...
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The Quatermass Conclusion
as Prof. Bernard QuatermassInfluenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the...
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Night of the Fox
as Brig. Dougal MunroThis classic war mini-series stars George Peppard and Michael York in a gripping tale of danger,...
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The Big Freeze
as Dapper manA silent comedy. Two accident-prone plumbers go to fix the plumbing at a home for retired...
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One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
as Self (uncredited)The gloriously glamorous Dame Edna entertains a celebrity audience in this 1988 special.
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A Political Party
as Tony SmithersA north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign...
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Brown on Resolution
as Albert BrownForever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair...
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Doctor's Orders
as Ronnie BlakeLeslie Fuller stars as a quack whose son qualifies as a doctor in total ignorance of his...
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Those Were the Days
as Bobby PoskettA 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 VoiceDescribed as a 'film argument' about homes and houses, this film is in three parts showing...
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Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
as uncreditedA behind-the-scenes show on the filming of Swiss Family Robinson on the West Indian island of...
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The Way to Wimbledon
as Self - CommentatorFocuses on the fifty weeks of the year when Wimbledon is preparing to host the next tennis...
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Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
as Self (archive)A look behind the scenes at Walt Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
as Bobby JessopA professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to...
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All Hands
as JackFrom a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing...
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First Offence
as Johnnie PenroseAfter his father sells his car, an immature playboy steals it back, and gets involved with a...
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The Wind and the Bomb
as uncreditedThe making-of When the Wind Blows, featuring interviews with producer John Coates, director...
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The Love Boat
as Bertram MacDonaldPassengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...
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Hotel
as uncreditedHotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May...
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The Merv Griffin Show
as SelfThe Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran...
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Wogan
as SelfChat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable...
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Tales of the Unexpected
as Sam MorrisseyA British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...
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Tales of the Unexpected
as William PerkinsA British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...
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Tales of the Unexpected
as The ManA British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...
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An Audience with...
as SelfAn Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend...
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Around the World in 80 Days
as FavershamThe plot centres around Phileas Fogg making a £20,000 wager with three members of the Reform...
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A Woman of Substance
as Henry RossiterThe life of Emma Harte, from kitchen maid at the beginning of the twentieth century, to...
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Nanny and the Professor
as Uncle AlfredNanny and the Professor is an American fantasy situation comedy created by AJ Carothers and...
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Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as SelfJonathan Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from...
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Parkinson
as SelfMichael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show.
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The Danny Kaye Show
as SelfThe Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show hosted by Danny Kaye that aired on CBS from 1963...
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The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as SelfIn 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a...
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Martin Chuzzlewit
as Mr. ChuffeyWhen old Martin Chuzzlewit disinherits his grandson, he falls prey to a host of rapacious relatives.
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The Dame Edna Experience
as SelfThe Dame Edna Experience is a British television comedy talk-show hosted by Dame Edna Everage....
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Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)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 LorryA pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer,...
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Quatermass
as Bernard QuatermassIn the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his...
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Dundee and the Culhane
as DundeeDundee and the Culhane is an American Western television series starring John Mills and Sean...
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Hold the Dream
as Henry RossiterThe follow-up to A Woman of Substance with Emma Harte at age eighty in the last winter of her...
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The Zoo Gang
as Thomas "The Elephant" DevonSix resistance fighters, known by their animal-based code names, fought during World War II....
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Young at Heart
as Albert CollyerThe lives of married couple Albert and Ethel Collyer, after Albert, a pottery worker for 50...
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