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- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- November 17, 1936
- Place of Birth
- Ashford, Kent, UK
- Died
- January 11, 1998
John Wells
Wells started in cabaret at Oxford and began his television career as a writer on That Was The Week That Was, the 1960s weekly satire show that launched the careers of David Frost and Millicent Martin, among others, and also appeared in the television programme Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, as well as in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball. Besides making cameo appearances in films such as Casino Royale (1967) and Rentadick (1972), television dramas like Casanova (1987), an episode of Lovejoy (1991) and comedy shows like Yes Minister, he also wrote television scripts and screenplays, such as Princess Caraboo (1994). In 1971, with John Fortune, he published the comedy classic A Melon for Ecstasy, about a man who consummates his love affair with a tree. Wells played the headmaster of Thursgood's Preparatory School in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979). Wells was one of the …
Filmography
tv100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023 · Self
movieBottom Mindless Violence
2004 · Doctor (archive footage)
tvChalk
1997 · Richard Nixon
moviePrincess Caraboo
1994 · Reverend Hunt, Writer
tvAbsolutely Fabulous
1992 · Uncle Humphrey
tvBottom
1991 · Doctor
tvHave I Got News for You
1990 · Self
tvCharlie Chalk
1988
movieConsuming Passions
1988
The Giftie
movieThe Giftie
1988 · Frank
Rude Health
tvRude Health
1987
movieCasanova
1987
tvFilthy Rich & Catflap
1987 · Judge
movieCinderella: The Shoe Must Go On
1986 · Denis, King Charming
tvLovejoy
1986 · Linden Walker
tvYes, Prime Minister
1986
movieRevolution
1985 · Corty
movieDutch Girls
1985 · Headmaster
movieLove's Labour's Lost
1985 · Holofernes
movieGreystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984 · Sir Evelyn Blount
movieAnyone for Denis
1982 · Denis Thatcher, Writer
tvAnyone for Denis?
1982 · Denis Thatcher
tvWogan
1982 · Self
movieThe Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982 · Self - Various Roles
movieFor Your Eyes Only
1981 · Denis Thatcher, esposo de la Primera Ministra
The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls
movieThe Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls
1980 · Pigeon (voice)
tvTinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979 · Headmaster
movieThe Light Princess
1978 · Bee (voice)
movieStones
1976 · Porton
Let's Sleep On it
movieLet's Sleep On it
1976
tvRumpole of the Bailey
1975 · Daniel Derwent
The End Of The Pier Show
tvThe End Of The Pier Show
1974 · Various Characters
tvPlayhouse
1974 · Porton
movieThe Cobblers of Umbridge
1973 · Writer
movieRentadick
1972 · Owltruss, Additional Dialogue
tvCountry Matters
1972 · Trooper Jordan
movieEvery Home Should Have One
1970 · Tolworth
tvQ...
1969
movie30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!
1968 · Honorable Gavin Hopton, Writer
tvOne Pair of Eyes
1967
movieCasino Royale
1967 · 'Q's' Assistant
movieThe Bobo
1967 · Pompadour Major Domo
The Flying Alberts (Brucey Lacey edit)
movieThe Flying Alberts (Brucey Lacey edit)
1965