John Mills — Actor (42)
Who's That Girl (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Who's That Girl
director: James Foley actor: Madonna / Griffin Dunne
other title: Quem é Essa Garota? / ¿Quién es esa chica?
An uptight New York City tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down one day when he's asked to escort a feisty free-spirited ex-convict who asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.
The Green Cockatoo (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Green Cockatoo
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
The Big Freeze (1993) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Big Freeze
director: Eric Sykes actor: Bob Hoskins / Eric Sykes
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.
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Young Mr. Pitt
director: Carol Reed actor: Robert Donat / Robert Morley
other title: Il nemico di Napoleone / The Young Mr Pitt
In 1783 England, King George III appoints William Pitt only 24 years old, as PM. When members of Parliament refuse to take Pitt seriously, he calls for a general election and wins. Pitt works to reform England, focusing on rebuilding the navy while across the sea in France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his conquest of Europe.
The Vicious Circle (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Vicious Circle
director: Gerald Thomas actor: John Mills / Derek Farr
other title: Il cerchio rosso del delitto / Interpol ruft Berlin
When Dr. Howard Latimer finds the German actress whom he had just met at the London Airport murdered in his flat, he is led into a world of murder, blackmail, and a fake passport scam.
The October Man (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The October Man
director: Roy Ward Baker actor: John Mills / Joan Greenwood
other title: Prigioniero della paura
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.
I Was Monty's Double (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
I Was Monty's Double
director: John Guillermin actor: John Mills / Cecil Parker
other title: La battaglia segreta di Montgomery / Montgomerys dobbeltgænger
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
Ice Cold in Alex (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB Skybridge
Ice Cold in Alex
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: John Mills / Sylvia Syms
other title: Birra ghiacciata ad Alessandria / Sob o Sol da África
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.
Operation Crossbow (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Operation Crossbow
other title: Operazione Crossbow / Operação Crossbow
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.
Tunes of Glory (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Tunes of Glory
director: Ronald Neame actor: Alec Guinness / John Mills
other title: Whisky e gloria / Uma Vez, Um Herói
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.
King Rat (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
King Rat
director: Bryan Forbes actor: George Segal / James Fox
other title: Qualcuno da odiare / Man kaldte ham King
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
We Dive at Dawn (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
We Dive at Dawn
director: Anthony Asquith actor: John Mills / Eric Portman
other title: La tigre del mare / Plongée à l'aube
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 that the crew won't be able to make it back to Britain before running out somewhere along the Danish coast. When it seems that their only option may be to blow up the submarine and try to escape to Denmark, seaman James Hobson hatches a plan...
O.H.M.S. (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
O.H.M.S.
director: Raoul Walsh actor: John Mills / Wallace Ford
other title: Au service de sa majesté / En el ejército de su majestad la reina
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.
Brown on Resolution (1935) [Movie] WikiData IMDb
Brown on Resolution
director: Walter Forde actor: Betty Balfour / John Mills
other title: Marin de Sa Majesté
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?
The Quatermass Conclusion (1979) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Quatermass Conclusion
director: Piers Haggard actor: John Mills / Barbara Kellerman
other title: Quatermass Conclusion - La Terra esplode / Quatermass Conclusion: La Terra esplode
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.
The Thirty Nine Steps (1978) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Thirty Nine Steps
director: Don Sharp actor: Robert Powell / David Warner
other title: I 39 scalini / Die 39 Stufen
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 framed for the death by the 'sleepers'. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder's death but by the agents who are headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government...