Personal Info
John Wells
Acting
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 screenpla…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Bottom Mindless Violence
as Doctor (archive footage)
Princess Caraboo
as Reverend Hunt
Consuming Passions
The Giftie
as Frank
Cinderella: The Shoe Must Go On
as Denis, King Charming
Revolution
as Corty
Dutch Girls
as Headmaster
Love's Labour's Lost
as Holofernes
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Sir Evelyn Blount
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
as Self - Various Roles
TV Shows
100 Years of Warner Bros.
as Self · 2 ep.
Chalk
as Richard Nixon · 12 ep.
Absolutely Fabulous
as Uncle Humphrey · 1 ep.
Bottom
as Doctor · 1 ep.
Have I Got News for You
as Self · 2 ep.
Charlie Chalk
13 ep.
Filthy Rich & Catflap
as Judge · 1 ep.
Rude Health
14 ep.
Lovejoy
as Linden Walker · 1 ep.
Yes, Prime Minister
1 ep.