Cast: John Mills

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring John Mills. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Ryan's Daughter

1970 · Movie · 206 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Sarah Miles · Robert Mitchum · Christopher Jones · Trevor Howard

Plot Set during the Irish Rebellion of 1916, it tells the story of Charles Shaughnessy (Robert Mitchum), a kind and gentle widower, who falls in love with and marries the much...

7.8

6K votes

7.8

6K votes

Hamlet

1996 · Movie · 242 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Kenneth Branagh

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Derek Jacobi · Kate Winslet · Julie Christie

Plot When Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) returns from his studies to find his father dead, and his mother married to his uncle, he grows suspicious. After being visited by his dead father...

7.4

8K votes

7.4

8K votes

Gandhi

1982 · Movie · 188 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Attenborough

Cast Ben Kingsley · Roshan Seth · Martin Sheen · Ian Charleson

Plot Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Fed...

7.4

39K votes

7.4

39K votes

Great Expectations

1946 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast John Mills · Valerie Hobson · Martita Hunt · Alec Guinness

Plot Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

War and Peace

1956 · Movie · 208 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Henry Fonda · Mel Ferrer · Vittorio Gassman

Plot Set against the backdrop of Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, King Vidor's adaptation of the Tolstoy sprawling classic stars Henry Fonda as Pierre Bezhukov. Despite the vast scope of the...

7.3

10K votes

7.3

10K votes

Hobson's Choice

1953 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Charles Laughton · John Mills · Brenda De Banzie · Daphne Anderson

Plot David Lean backs up vicious wit with tender romance in this thrilling adaptation of Harold Brighouse's play. As Henry Hobson, a tyrannical bootshop owner, Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty)...

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7.3

1K votes

7.3

1K votes

Goodbye Mr. Chips

1939 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Robert Donat · Greer Garson · John Mills · Terry Kilburn

Plot An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage that transformed his life.

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Tiger Bay

1959 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast John Mills · Horst Buchholz · Hayley Mills · Yvonne Mitchell

Plot A 12 year old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.

7.0

290 votes

7.0

290 votes

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

2010 · Documentary · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Craig McCall

Cast Jack Cardiff · Martin Scorsese · Kirk Douglas · Lauren Bacall

Plot In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the...

7.0

105 votes

7.0

105 votes

This Happy Breed

1944 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Robert Newton · Celia Johnson · Stanley Holloway · John Mills

Plot Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort...

6.9

639 votes

6.9

639 votes

Desert Attack (Ice-Cold in Alex)

1958 · Movie · 132 min. · United Kingdom

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast John Mills · Sylvia Syms · Anthony Quayle · Harry Andrews

Plot 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...

6.8

147 votes

6.8

147 votes

Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series)

1979 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Graham Evans · John Gorrie · Alan Gibson · Herbert Wise

Cast Roald Dahl · John Houseman · Andrew Ray · Joan Collins

Plot TV Series (1979-1988). 9 seasons. 112 episodes. A British anthology of mystery, suspense, horror and black comedy, highlighted by plot twists and surprise endings (in the early seasons, all by...

6.8

49 votes

6.8

49 votes

King Rat

1965 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast George Segal · Tom Courtenay · James Fox · Patrick O'Neal

Plot George Segal is the mastermind of all black market operations in a Japanese prison camp. He is called "King Rat" because of his breeding of rodents to serve as food...

6.8

172 votes

6.8

172 votes

The Vicious Circle

1957 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast John Mills · Derek Farr · Noelle Middleton · Wilfrid Hyde-White

Plot 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...

6.7

31 votes

6.7

31 votes

The October Man

1947 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast John Mills · Joan Greenwood · Edward Chapman · Kay Walsh

Plot 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...

6.7

37 votes

6.7

37 votes

Tunes of Glory

1960 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Alec Guinness · John Mills · Dennis Price · Kay Walsh

Plot 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...

6.6

310 votes

6.6

310 votes

The Way to the Stars

1945 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Michael Redgrave · John Mills · Rosamund John · Douglass Montgomery

Plot 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...

6.6

27 votes

6.6

27 votes

It's Great to Be Young!

1956 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cyril Frankel

Cast John Mills · Cecil Parker · John Salew · Elizabeth Kentish

Plot Mr. Dingle is the popular music teacher in an English school, but when the headmaster threatens to close down the school band (partly because of Dingle's fondness of more modern...

6.6

60 votes

6.6

60 votes

The Thirty-Nine Steps (The 39 Steps)

1978 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Don Sharp

Cast Robert Powell · John Mills · David Warner · Karen Dotrice

Plot Robert Powell is Richard Hannay, the man who unwittingly becomes embroiled in a dastardly Prussian plot to assassinate the Greek Prime Minister. Framed for murder, Hannay must flee to Scotland...

6.5

506 votes

6.5

506 votes

Around the World in 80 Days

1956 · Movie · 167 min. · United States

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast David Niven · Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" · Charles Boyer · Robert Newton

Plot English nobleman Phileas Fogg, a very strict and emotionless man, gets wound up in a bet at his gentlemen's club: He has to prove that it is possible to travel...

6.5

8K votes

6.5

8K votes