"realising charitable film projects such as 'Riding for The Disabled' (featuring HRH The Princess Royal), 'Outreach', 'The Spinal Injury Patient Film' (that won an international Telly Award in 2012), and 'Mobility and Enablement'. Glory Film Co. Glory Film Co. was established to produce the cinema film 'The Troop' which had a Royal Premiere at BAFTA in the presence of HRH The Princess Royal. Shot in 35mm CinemaScope the film features The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery and has a narrative introduction by Oscar-winning actor John Mills (""Ryan's Daughter""). The Troop was produced and directed by Marcus Dillistone. Associate producer was"
"(1970) — a complete departure from his usual style – Mills won an Best Supporting Actor Oscar. He was in ""Dulcima"" (1971) then had support roles in ""Young Winston"" (1972) for Attenborough, ""Lady Caroline Lamb"" (1972), and ""Oklahoma Crude"" (1973). On stage he did ""Veterans"" at the Royal Court, ""At the End of the Day"" (1973), ""The Good Companions"" (1974), ""Great Expectations"" (1975) and ""Separate Tables"" (1977). Also on the small screen, in 1974 he starred as Captain Tommy ""The Elephant"" Devon in the six-part television drama series ""The Zoo Gang"", about a group of former underground freedom fighters from"
"John Mills – ""Ryan's Daughter"" ""' Karen Black – ""Five Easy Pieces"" <br> ""' Maureen Stapleton – ""Airport"" ""' Peter Graves – """" ""' Flip Wilson – ""The Flip Wilson Show"" ""' Peggy Lipton – ""The Mod Squad"" ""' Mary Tyler Moore – ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"" ""' ""Medical Center"" ""' ""The Carol Burnett Show"" ""' James Brolin – ""Marcus Welby, M.D."" ""' Gail Fisher – ""Mannix"" 28th Golden Globe Awards The 28th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1970 films, were held on February 5, 1971. ""' George C. Scott – ""Patton"" ""'"
"World War II, with Brian Keith, Lilli Palmer and Barry Morse. In the late 1970s Mills could still get lead roles in films, as shown by ""The ""Human"" Factor"" (1975), ""Trial by Combat"" (1976), and ""The Devil's Advocate"" (1977). He had filmed supporting roles in ""The Big Sleep"" (1978) and ""The Thirty Nine Steps"" (1978). His most famous television role was probably as the title character in ""Quatermass"" for ITV in 1979. He followed this with a sitcom in ""Young at Heart"" (1980–82). On the big screen he was now mainly playing upper crust types as in ""Zulu Dawn"" (1979),"
"about one of her relatives who was a painter leading a hippie life on a barge. At fifty-six, his contribution as one of five camera operators on the landmark rock concert documentary ""Woodstock"" (1970) brought an Oscar and established his reputation as a filmmaker in the rock music industry. That achievement was followed by his cinematography on ""Johnny Cash in San Quentin"" (1969), ""Elvis on Tour"" (1972), ""Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen"" (1971), ""Soul to Soul"" (1971), ""Wattstax"" (1973), ""Let the Good Times Roll"" (1973), ""Save the Children"" (1973), ""The Grateful Dead"" (1977), Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz (1978),"
"work in this series and for her role in the film ""Avanti!"" in 1972. She won an Emmy Award for her performance in the television miniseries ""QB VII"" (1974). In 1983, Mills joined The Mirror Theater Ltd's Mirror Repertory Company, performing in repertory productions such as ""Rain"", ""Paradise Lost"", ""Inheritors"" and ""The Hasty Heart"" throughout their seasons. From 1999 until 2008, she had a role on the daytime drama series ""Passions"", for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award. Mills was born in London during World War II (1941), though her parents, actor Sir John Mills and playwright"
"were also involved in both films, including actress Kay Walsh, cinematographer Arthur Ibbetson and editor Anne V. Coates. James Kennaway, who adapted the screenplay from his novel, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, but lost to ""Elmer Gantry"". It also received numerous BAFTA nominations, including Best Film, Best British Film, Best British Screenplay and Best Actor nominations for both Guinness and Mills. The film was the official British entry at the 1960 Venice Film Festival, and John Mills won the Best Actor award there. That same year the film was named ""Best Foreign Film"" by the"
"O'Hara, and on television series such as ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E."", ""Ben Casey"" and ""12 O'Clock High"". The 1970s saw her working mostly in television, although she has stated that the highlight of her film career was the film ""Avanti!"" (1972), directed by Billy Wilder, in which she starred with Jack Lemmon, and for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1973.. Mills also appeared in a two-part 1987 episode of the TV series ""The Love Boat"" playing Barbara Danver, wife of Alan Danver, played by Dan Rowan, one half of the ""Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"" partnership. She"
"""City That Never Sleeps"" (1953), and that of Uncle Bawley in ""Giant"" (1956), which also features Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean. Wills was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role as Davy Crockett's companion ""Beekeeper"" in the film ""The Alamo"" (1960). However, his aggressive campaign for the award was considered tasteless by many, including the film's star/director/producer John Wayne, who publicly apologized for Wills. Wills' publicity agent, W.S. ""Bow-Wow"" Wojciechowicz, accepted blame for the ill-advised effort, claiming that Wills had known nothing about it. The Oscar was instead won by Peter Ustinov for"
"They are buried in St. Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Denham. Mills was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1960. In 1976 he was knighted by the Queen. In 1999, at 91 years of age, Mills became the oldest joining member of the entertainment charitable fraternity, the Grand Order of Water Rats. In 2002, he received a Fellowship of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), their highest award, and was named a Disney Legend by the Walt Disney Company. For a number of years, British film exhibitors voted him among the top"
"the box office in Britain. Bill Anderson, one of Walt Disney's producers, saw ""Tiger Bay"" and suggested that Mills be given the lead role in ""Pollyanna"". The role of the orphaned ""glad girl"" who moves in with her aunt catapulted Mills to stardom in the United States and earned her a special Academy Award (the last person to receive the Juvenile Oscar). Because Mills could not be present to receive the trophy, Annette Funicello accepted it for her. Disney subsequently cast Mills as twins Sharon and Susan who reunite their divorced parents in ""The Parent Trap"". In the film, Mills"
"two seasons, in 1970 and 1971. When it moved from a timeslot near ""The Partridge Family"" and ""The Brady Bunch"", two hugely successful sitcoms, to a different night of the week, ratings fell eventually leading to its cancellation. In 1974, she won an Emmy Award for ""Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Special"" for her performance in the miniseries adaptation of ""QB VII"". During the 1974–75 television season, she also had a recurring role as Dr. Claire Hanley on NBC's ""Born Free"". In 1980, Mills returned to the stage, starring in ""The Elephant Man"","
"Reginald Mills Reginald ""Reggie"" Mills (15 September 1912 – July 1990) was an English film editor and one-time film director with more than thirty feature film credits. Among his prominent films are ""The Red Shoes"" (1948), for which he received his only Academy Award nomination, ""The Servant"" (1963), and ""Romeo and Juliet"" (1968). Mills graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in modern languages in 1934. He was the assistant to David Lean (then an editor) on two films directed by Paul Czinner, ""As You Like It"" (1936) and ""Dreaming Lips"" (1937). Mills then worked for Publicity Films at Merton"
"The October Man The October Man is a 1947 mystery film/film noir starring John Mills and Joan Greenwood, written by novelist Eric Ambler, who also produced. A man is suspected of murder, and due to the lingering effects of a brain injury sustained in an earlier accident and after intense police investigation, he himself begins to doubt whether he is innocent or not. When a bus crashes due to faulty steering, passenger Jim Ackland (John Mills) sustains a serious brain injury and a young girl under his care is killed. Guilt ridden, he attempts suicide twice during his recovery. He"
"""Great Expectations"" (1946) and ""Ice Cold in Alex"" (1958), and had won an Academy Award for his role in ""Ryan's Daughter"" (1970). Mills, whose only previous television credit at the time was ""The Zoo Gang"" (1974), was reluctant to take the part but was persuaded by his wife, who liked the script. Following ""Quatermass"" he appeared in ""Gandhi"" (1982), ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" (1994) and ""Hamlet"" (1996), working right up to his death in 2005. Joe Kapp was played by Simon MacCorkindale, who had previously appeared in ""Baby"", one of the episodes of Nigel Kneale's ""Beasts"" series. MacCorkindale was delighted with the"
"her performance gaining her an Oscar nomination and an Oscar win for John Mills, and the film making a substantial profit. In Terence Pettigrew's biography of Trevor Howard, Miles describes the filming of ""Ryan's Daughter"" in Ireland in 1969. She recalls, ""My main memory is of sitting on a hilltop in a caravan at six in the morning in the rain. There was no other actor or member of the crew around me. I would sit there getting mad, waiting for either the rain to stop or someone to arrive. Film-acting is so horrifically belittling."" On 11 February 1973, while"
"""Gandhi"" (1982), and ""Sahara"" (1983). He performed ""Goodbye Mr Chips"" on stage (1982) followed by ""Little Lies"" (1983). In 1986 he did ""The Petition"" at the National and the following year did ""Pygmalion"" on Broadway. He provided a voice for ""When the Wind Blows"" (1986) and supported Madonna in ""Who's That Girl"" (1987). His best roles were on TV in ""Harnessing Peacocks"" (1993) and ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" (1994). Mills also starred as """" in the filmed version of the musical ""Cats"" in 1998. In 2000, Mills released his extensive home cine-film footage in a documentary film entitled ""Sir John Mills' Moving"
"the other men: having sex with the right girl, and who he and the others consider the right girl, Jenny. Take a Girl Like You (film) Take a Girl Like You is a 1970 British comedy film directed by Jonathan Miller and starring Hayley Mills, Oliver Reed and Noel Harrison. Based on the 1960 novel ""Take a Girl Like You"" by Kingsley Amis, it was adapted by George Melly. A television adaptation was broadcast in 2000. Mills plays Jenny, a good girl who comes to a small British town to start a simple life. Soon she becomes the center of"
"offending no one. The film received three nominations at the 65th Academy Awards: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing. The film also won two Golden Globes, Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical and Best Actor – Comedy or Musical for Robbins. Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) is a Hollywood studio executive dating story editor Bonnie Sherow (Cynthia Stevenson). He hears story pitches from screenwriters and decides which have the potential to be made into films, green-lighting only 12 out of 50,000 submissions every year. His job is threatened when up-and-coming story executive Larry Levy (Peter Gallagher) begins working"
"11 Academy Award nominations. It again won Best Picture. Coppola won Best Director and Robert DeNiro won best supporting actor for his portrayal of a young Vito Corleone. The lesson of the films' successes was not wasted on Hollywood. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the studios issued a steady flow of films about Italian American gangsters and the Mafia. Some of these were critically acclaimed. Scorsese's ""Goodfellas"" about Henry Hill's life and relationship with the Lucchese and Gambino crime families, was nominated for 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director and won the award for Best Supporting Actor"
"with enough material for a soundtrack album. One of the songs, ""Flesh and Blood,"" even became a number one country hit in 1971. The soundtrack featured three songs not heard in the film (""This Town"", ""Face of Despair"" and ""The World's gonna Fall On You""). I Walk the Line (film) I Walk the Line is a 1970 American Drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld. It tells the story of Sheriff Henry Tawes (Peck) who develops a relationship with a girl in town Alma McCain (Weld). The screenplay, written by Alvin Sargent, is an"
"an Oscar nomination in 1969 for Best Supporting Actress, despite appearing on-screen for about six minutes. She received a second Oscar nomination for her slightly larger role (eight minutes) as Best Supporting Actress in 1975 for her role in ""Farewell, My Lovely"". In 1978, Miles was given a cameo role in the Indian suspense film ""Shalimar"". She appeared in the 1982 film version of Agatha Christie's ""Evil Under the Sun"", portraying a Broadway producer, one of her more mainstream film roles. She played real estate agent Dolores in the Oliver Stone film ""Wall Street"" (1987), a role she would reprise"
"Juliet Mills Juliet Maryon Mills (born 21 November 1941) is a British-American actress. She is the daughter of actor Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell and the eldest of three siblings; her younger siblings are actress Hayley Mills and director Jonathan Mills. Mills began her career as a child actress and was nominated for a Tony Award for her stage performance in ""Five Finger Exercise"" in 1960. She progressed to film work and then to television, playing the lead role on the sitcom ""Nanny and the Professor"" in the early 1970s. She received Golden Globe Award nominations for her"
"film ""A Soldier's Story"" and for his Academy Award-nominated performance in the film ""Ragtime"". Substance abuse problems led to fewer Rollins' appearances on the series, and he eventually was fired. The Tibbs family was written out of the series. All novels were written by John Ball. Virgil Tibbs Virgil Tibbs is one of the two fictional main characters in John Ball's 1965 novel ""In the Heat of the Night"". He is also the protagonist in six sequels to that novel. On screen, Tibbs is the protagonist in the Oscar-winning 1967 film ""In the Heat of the Night"" and in its"
"by Claire Harding. Jack Wild Jack Wild (30 September 1952 – 1 March 2006) was an English actor and singer, best known for his debut role as the Artful Dodger in ""Oliver!,"" (1968) for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor as well as Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. Wild is also known for his roles as Jimmy in the NBC children's television series ""H.R. Pufnstuf"" (1969) and in the accompanying 1970 feature film as well as Much the Miller's Son in """" (1991). Wild was born into a working class family in Royton, Lancashire. He"
"John Mills (Samuel L. Jackson), her foster father, also serves as her proud mentor. Shepard finds that she might once again have to prove herself in a department that takes no prisoners. In addition, Shepard's parents were both killed in the 1970s when she was young as a result of her father murdering her mother's extra-marital lovers then Shepard's mother and himself, an event which scarred her in the past and caused Mills to foster her. When Bob Sherman (Jim Hechim), a minor criminal and one of Shepard's former one-night stands is brutally murdered, Shepard and her new partner, Mike"
"role in David O. Russell's film ""Joy"", which was released in December 2015. Also in 2015, she starred in the holiday comedy-drama, ""12 Gifts of Christmas"". In 2017, Mills was cast in the role of Daisy Werthan in the Colony Theatre's production of Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, ""Driving Miss Daisy"". Mills has never married. She has one daughter, Chloe, whom she adopted in late 1994 when Chloe was four days old. Outside of acting, Mills released ""The Eyes Have It"" in 1986, an instructional video for achieving several different make-up looks. She went on to release her own line"
"In addition to directing ""Pollock"", Harris also directed the western ""Appaloosa"" (2008). In television, Harris is notable for his roles as Miles Roby in the miniseries ""Empire Falls"" (2005) and as United States Senator John McCain in the television movie ""Game Change"" (2012), the latter of which earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. He currently stars as the Man in Black in the HBO science fiction-western series ""Westworld"" (2016–present), for which he earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Harris was"
"Awards 2000 Motion Picture Sound Editors (Golden Reel Awards) 2000 People's Choice Awards 2001 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (Nebula Award) 2000 Screen Actors Guild Awards 4th Golden Satellite Awards The Green Mile (film) The Green Mile is a 1999 American fantasy crime drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and adapted from Stephen King’s 1996 novel of the same name. The film stars Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecomb and Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey, with supporting roles by David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, and James Cromwell. The film also features Dabbs Greer in his final film,"
"Commissioner skirts the obvious and pivots on the unexpected; in the best tradition of detective stories The 1975 film version of ""Report to the Commissioner"", featuring Richard Gere in his screen debut with a minor supporting role, was made after ""the movie rights were snapped up by a motion picture industry starved for clever suspense stories."" James Mills (author) James Mills (born 1932) is an American novelist, screenwriter and journalist. Mills wrote two New York Times bestsellers, ""Report to the Commissioner"", a novel, and ""The Underground Empire"", a study of international narcotics trafficking. As a result, he testified before a"
"the Best Actor Oscar for ""Save the Tiger"" (1973), becoming the first actor to achieve this rare double (the only other actors to have done so are Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington). He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film ""Missing"" in 1982, and for his roles in ""Some Like It Hot"" (1959), ""The Apartment"" (1960), ""Days of Wine and Roses"" (1962), ""The China Syndrome"" (1979), for which he was also awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and ""Tribute"" (1980). He won another"
"Jack Wild Jack Wild (30 September 1952 – 1 March 2006) was an English actor and singer, best known for his debut role as the Artful Dodger in ""Oliver!,"" (1968) for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor as well as Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. Wild is also known for his roles as Jimmy in the NBC children's television series ""H.R. Pufnstuf"" (1969) and in the accompanying 1970 feature film as well as Much the Miller's Son in """" (1991). Wild was born into a working class family in Royton, Lancashire. He moved to Hounslow,"
"eventually married in 1971. She then starred as the protagonist of ""Pretty Polly"" (1968), opposite famous Indian film actor Shashi Kapoor in Singapore. Mills made another movie for Boulting, the controversial horror thriller ""Twisted Nerve"" in 1968, along with her ""Family Way"" co-star Hywel Bennett. She made a comedy, ""Take a Girl Like You"" (1970) with Oliver Reed, and made her West End debut in ""The Wild Duck"" in 1970. She worked for Boutling again on ""Mr. Forbush and the Penguins"" (1971), replacing the original female lead. In 1972 Mills again acted opposite Hywel Bennett in ""Endless Night"" along with"