Highlighted works
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The orphan and the spinster, the marshland and the metropolis: Dickens’s vivid characters and locales receive the breath of cinematic life in David Lean’s cherished adaptation.
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In this wartime tribute to the courage of the British Navy, Noël Coward traces turbulent experiences across the ranks on an ill-fated destroyer.
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Anthony Asquith directs a Terence Rattigan screenplay in this classic, which explores marriage in an age when death was just around the corner.
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Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim and John Mills star in this comic thriller adapted from a stage hit.
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Despite a harsh critical response at the time of its release, Ryan’s Daughter is a triumph of sensual storytelling by David Lean.
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Robert Donat won an Oscar for best actor as the long-serving classics master in this sentimental saga of public-school duty and devotion.
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The icon of India’s independence movement was described in newsreels as “the little man”, but the ambition and scale of Richard Attenborough’s biopic are nothing short of colossal.
Filmography
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interviewee
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cast member
2010
Cameraman The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff
actor
2005
on-screen participant
2004
on-screen participant
2003
gentleman
2003
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough Part One
on-screen participant
2002
on-screen participant
2002
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross[10/05/2002]
guest
2002
guest
2001
[Subject of Film]
2001
Arthur Rosehip
2001
on-screen participant
2001
Larry & Vivien The Oliviers in Love
on-screen participant
2000
[Subject of Film]
2000
introduction
2000
Presenter, cinema award
2000
Open House with Gloria Hunniford[06/03/2000]
interviewee
2000
The Heaven and Earth Show[06/08/2000]
interviewee
2000
Open House with Gloria Hunniford[28/11/2000]
interviewee
2000
interviewee
2000
A Profile of in Which We Serve
interviewee
1999
Sir John Mills - Greater London Fund for the Blind
presenter
1999
narrator
1999
Persistence of Vision The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
interviewee
1999
An Audience with Cliff Richard
audience member
1999
on-screen participant
1999
archive interview footage
1998
Gus the Theatre Cat
1998
Des O'Connor Tonight[02/10/98]
Guest
1998
The Noël Coward Trilogy Captain Coward
interviewee
1997
chairman
1997
Old Norway
1996
[Subject of Film]
on-screen participant1996
Sir Edward Cleghorn
1996
interviewee
1995
BFI Fellowship 1995 Gala: Sir John Mills & Martin Scorsese
[Subject of Film]
1995
on-screen participant
1995
Guardian Interview: Sir John Mills
interviewee
1994
Jack the Ripper
1994
Mr Chuffey
1994
Mr Chuffey
1994
Mr Chuffey
1994
on-screen participant
1994
An Audience with Bob Monkhouse
Guest
1994
on-screen participant
1993
Bernard Quigley
1993
dapper man
1993
The Royal Television Society Hall of Fame
on-screen participant
1992
De Lacey
1992
Praeger
1992
"Action!..." Sir Richard Attenborough
interviewee
1992
on-screen participant
1992
Britain's Missing Movie Heritage
on-screen participant
1992
interviewee
1991
presenter
1991
cast member
1991
cast member
1991
This Is Your Life (Highlights from 1950s & 1960s)
on-screen participant
1990
presenter
1990
Bernard
1990
General Munro
1990
on-screen participant
1990
on-screen participant
1989
narrator
1989
narrator
1989
cast member
1989
The Royal Variety Performance [1989]
cast member
1989
Jules Verne's around the World in 80 Days
Faversham
1989
Laurence Olivier - A Service of Thanksgiving from Westminster Abbey
reading
1989
on-screen participant
1988
narrator
1988
narrator
1988
on-screen participant
1987
presenter
1987
narrator
1987
on-screen participant
1987
cast member
1987
Montgomery Bell
1987
The Dame Edna Experience![17/10/87]
Guest
1986
Presenter/narrator
1986
cast member
1986
voice of Jim Bloggs
1986
Henry Rossiter
1986
British Cinema: A Personal View Richard Attenborough Slates 56-60 John Mills Interview
Interviewee
1986
on-screen participant
1985
cast member
1985
Lewis Serrocold
1985
on-screen participant
1985
on-screen participant
1984
Jim Davidson's Falklands Special
narrator
1984
Doctor Watson
1984
A Woman of Substance: Episode 2
Henry Rossiter
1984
A Woman of Substance: Episode 3
Henry Rossiter
1984
A Woman of Substance: Episode 1
Henry Rossiter
1983
[Subject of Film]
1983
interviewee
1983
Cambridge
1983
on-screen participant
1982
Albert Collyer
1982
Sam Morrissey
1982
The Adventures of Little Lord Fauntleroy
cast member
1982
Albert Collyer
1982
Albert Collyer
1982
Albert Collyer
1982
Albert Collyer
1982
All Good Things Come to an End
Albert Collyer
1982
The Viceroy
1982
Golf The Bob Hope British Classic
on-screen participant
1981
Tommy Steele - A Handful of Songs
narrator
1981
Albert Collyer
1981
Albert Collyer
1981
Everything in the Garden's Lovely
Albert Collyer
1981
Albert Collyer
1981
I Do Like to Be beside the Seaside
Albert Collyer
1981
Albert Collyer
1981
Albert Collyer
1981
cast member
1981
on-screen participant
1980
Albert Collyer
1980
Albert Collyer
1980
Albert Collyer
1980
William Perkins
1980
The Man
1980
And They Said It Wouldn't Last
Albert Collyer
1980
Albert Collyer
1980
on-screen participant
1980
interviewee
1979
Read by
1979
Declarations of War Brent's Deus ex Machina
Read by
1979
Declarations of War A New Way to Say Goodnight
Read by
1979
Declarations of War Paper Casualty
Read by
1979
Read by
1979
Quatermass
1979
Quatermass
1979
Quatermass
1979
Quatermass
1979
Sir Henry Bartle Frere
1978
introduction
1978
Professor Bernard Quatermass
1978
cast member
1978
cast member
1978
colonel Scudder
1978
Inspector Jim Carson
1978
appearance
1977
cast member
1977
Blaise Meredith
1977
cast member
1977
Guest
1977
on-screen participant
1976
introduction
1976
Bertie Cook
1976
on-screen participant
1975
Mike McAllister
1974
Tommy Devon
1973
Cleon Doyle
1972
Canning
1972
General Kitchener
1971
Mr Parker
1971
British Screen Awards A Gala Night for Television and Film
on-screen participant
1970
Sir Philip MacDonald
1970
Michael Doole
1970
on-screen participant
1970
interviewee
1969
The Moorman
1969
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
1968
Franz Bulov
1968
LADY HAMILTON - ZWISCHEN SCHMACH UND LIEBE
Lord William Hamilton
1967
Dundee
1967
Wing Commander Hayes
1967
Colonel Stuart Valois
1966
Directed by
1966
presenter
1966
commentator
1966
Ezra Fitton
1966
Masterman Finsbury
1966
Lionel Jeffries Home Movies Collection Film 16
on-screen participant
1965
Tommy Tyler
1965
General Boyd
1965
cast member
1965
Colonel George Smedley-Taylor
1964
John Mills Collection Film 33 - The Truth about Spring
Photography
appearance1964
John Mills Collection Film 32 - King Rat
Photography
appearance1964
John Mills Collection Film 35 - Sky West and Crooked/Family Scenes
Photography
appearance1964
commentator
1964
Maitland
1962
John Mills Collection Film 25 - Tiara Tahiti
Photography
appearance1962
John Mills Collection Film 27 - India
Photography
appearance1962
John Mills Collection Film 28 - The Moon-spinners/farm
Photography
appearance1962
John Mills Collection Film 34 - Far East
Photography
appearance1962
Inspector Fallon
1962
Captain Robert Morgan
1962
Lt. Col. Clifford F. Southey
1962
on-screen participant
1961
John Mills Collection Film 4 - The Truth about Spring/Cap D'ail
Photography
appearance1961
John Mills Collection Film 29 - New York
Photography
appearance1961
John Mills Collection Film 31 - Crete/Family Scenes/Pisa
Photography
appearance1961
John Mills Collection Film 30 - Summer Magic/Japan
Photography
appearance1961
Jacko Palmer
1961
Father Michael Keogh
1961
Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow
1960
father
1960
on-screen participant
1959
John Mills Collection Film 21 - Disneyland
Photography
appearance1959
John Mills Collection Film 22 - Swiss Family Robinson
Photography
appearance1959
John Mills Collection Film 24 - Pollyanna
Photography
appearance1959
John Mills Collection Film 26 - Farm/Cricket
Photography
appearance1959
Major Harvey
1959
Superintendent Graham
1959
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Barney
1958
[Subject of Film]
1958
John Mills Collection Film 17 - Ice Cold in Alex
Photography
appearance1958
John Mills Collection Film 20 - Australia
Photography
appearance1958
John Mills Collection Film 10 - Swiss Family Robinson/The Singer Not the Song/The Valiant
Photography
appearance1958
Captain Anson
1958
Corporal 'Tabby' Binns
1957
John Mills Collection Film 16 - Farm/Holidays
Photography
appearance1957
John Mills Collection Film 19 - Tiger Bay/I Was Monty's Double
Photography
appearance1957
John Mills Collection Film 1 - Dunkirk
Photography
appearance1957
John Mills Collection Film 2 - Ice Cold in Alex
Photography
appearance1957
Dr Howard Latimer
1957
Superintendent Mike Halloran
1956
John Mills Collection Film 18 - Winter Holiday
Photography
appearance1956
John Mills Collection Film 23 - Dunkirk/Family Scenes
Photography
appearance1956
John Mills Collection Film 15 - Dunkirk/Farm
Photography
appearance1956
Dingle
1956
"Puncher" Roberts
1956
Platon Karatsev
1956
Around the World in Eighty Days
London cabby
1955
Pat Reid
1955
John Hampden
1955
Commander Frazer
1955
Albert Parkis
1955
Lionel Jeffries Home Movies Collection Film 35
on-screen participant
1954
John Mills Collection Film 36 - Sky West and Crooked/Holidays
Photography
appearance1954
William 'Willie' Mossop
1954
Lionel Jeffries Home Movies Collection Film 29
on-screen participant
1953
Philip Davidson
1952
commentator
1952
Terence Sullivan
1952
Tom Denning
1951
John Mills Collection Film 3 - Coronation/Boating/Polo
Photography
appearance1951
John Mills Collection Film 12 - Majorca/Boating/Polo
Photography
appearance1951
John Mills Collection Film 14 - Farm/Switzerland
Photography
appearance1951
on-screen participant
1950
Produced by
Bassett1950
John Mills Collection Film 5 - Polo/Family Scenes
Photography
appearance1950
Lieutenant Commander Peter Armstrong
1950
cast member
1949
Producer
Alfred Polly1949
John Mills Collection Film 9 - Boating Holiday
Photography
appearance1949
John Mills Collection Film 11 - Boating/Skiing/Polo
Photography
appearance1949
Narrative spoken by
1948
Director
on-screen participant1948
Captain Robert Falcon Scott RN
1947
John Mills Collection Film 7 - Winter Holiday
Photography
appearance1947
John Mills Collection Film 8 - Morning Departure/Fulmer/Woolacombe
Photography
appearance1947
John Mills Collection Film 13 - Scott of the Antarctic/Holidays
Photography
appearance1947
Jim Ackland
1947
Pip
1947
George Boswell
1946
Land of Promise An Argument about Our Homes and Houses
'The Voice'
1946
on-screen participant
1945
John Mills Collection Film 6 - Portofino/Family Scenes
Photography
appearance1945
Jim Colter
1945
Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
1944
Bill Clark
1944
cast member
1944
Billy Mitchell
1943
Tom
1943
Lt Freddie Taylor, captain
1942
Ordinary Seaman Shorty Blake
1942
Bobby Jessop
1942
William Wilberforce
1942
Tom, Royal Air Force
1941
Young Bill Busby
1941
Flight-Lieutenant George Perry
1940
Jim Connor
1940
Jack
1939
Fred
1939
Peter Colley (as a young man)
1937
Bert Dawson
1936
Tony
1936
Johnnie Penrose
1936
Lord Guildford Dudley
1935
Albert Brown
1935
Robert Miller
1935
young enlistee
1934
Arthur Haughton
1934
Peter Farrell
1934
Ronnie Blake
1934
Tony Smithers
1934
Ralph Summers
1934
Bobby
1933
Ernest Elton
1933
Fred Bolton
1933
Midshipman Golightly