John Wells

Biography

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 original contributors to the satirical magazine Private Eye and contributed to Mrs Wilson's Diary, the long-running spoof journal of the wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson. From 1979 he repeated that success with Dear Bill, a series of letters (co-written with Richard Ingrams) supposedly sent by …

Movies & TV Shows

1. For Your Eyes Only (1981) — Denis Thatcher, esposo de la Primera Ministra
2. Casino Royale (1967) — Q's Assistant
3. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) — Sir Evelyn Blount
4. Absolutely Fabulous (1992) — Uncle Humphrey
5. Bottom (1991) — Doctor
6. Yes, Prime Minister (1986)
7. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) — Headmaster
8. Revolution (1985) — Corty
9. Have I Got News for You (1990) — Self
10. Lovejoy (1986) — Linden Walker
11. 100 Years of Warner Bros. (2023) — Self
12. Princess Caraboo (1994) — Reverend Hunt
13. Filthy Rich & Catflap (1987) — Judge
14. Rumpole of the Bailey (1975) — Daniel Derwent
15. Every Home Should Have One (1970) — Tolworth
16. Rentadick (1972) — Owltruss
17. Casanova (1987)
18. Charlie Chalk (1988)
19. Dutch Girls (1985) — Headmaster
20. Wogan (1982) — Self
21. The Bobo (1967) — Pompadour Major Domo
22. The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1982) — Self - Various Roles
23. 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia! (1968) — Honorable Gavin Hopton
24. Q... (1969)
25. Chalk (1997) — Richard Nixon
26. Country Matters (1972) — Trooper Jordan
27. Consuming Passions (1988)
28. Love's Labour's Lost (1985) — Holofernes
29. The Light Princess (1978) — Bee (voice)
30. Cinderella: The Shoe Must Go On (1986) — Denis, King Charming
31. Anyone for Denis (1982) — Denis Thatcher
32. Stones (1976) — Porton
33. Bottom Mindless Violence (2004) — Doctor (archive footage)
34. Playhouse (1974) — Porton
35. One Pair of Eyes (1967)
36. Let's Sleep On it (1976)
37. The Flying Alberts (Brucey Lacey edit) (1965)
38. The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls (1980) — Pigeon (voice)
39. The Giftie (1988) — Frank
40. Rude Health (1987)