Cast: John Mills
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring John Mills. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 104
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)...
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