Biography
Mary Millington shared the screen with the Sex Pistols in their film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle. During the 1970s she stood as the leading presence in British adult films, completing many features and short loops while recording vocals for multiple erotic audio projects in the decade’s later years. One of those releases, “Mary Millington Talks Dirty,” appears on the Trunk label’s Flexisex compilation of scarce pornographic flexidiscs.
Born Mary Ruth Quilter, she first modeled under the name Mary Maxted in the final years of the 1960s. Scottish filmmaker John Lindsay discovered her early in the next decade and produced a number of her loops. The initial one, Miss Bohrloch, earned the Golden Phallus Award at the Amsterdam Wet Dream Festival in 1970. She later collaborated with directors Russel Gay and Harrison Marks. In 1975 publisher David Sullivan made her the central figure of his Whitehouse magazine, titled after anti-obscenity campaigner Mary Whitehouse, who is also referenced on Pink Floyd’s Animals album. Sullivan gave her the surname Millington, implying a sisterly connection to the magazine’s editor, Doreen Millington.
She swiftly became the United Kingdom’s most photographed and popular glamour model and soon crossed into mainstream cinema with a run of soft-core comedies. Come Play with Me, released in 1977, ranked among the most commercially successful British films ever made. Additional titles included Eskimo Nell, The David Galaxy Affair, The Playbirds, and Queen of the Blues. Her prominence drew sustained official attention, and her final years involved repeated clashes with tax authorities and police raids. Ultimately overwhelmed, she died by suicide on August 19, 1979, shortly after finishing her work on the Sex Pistols project.
Born Mary Ruth Quilter, she first modeled under the name Mary Maxted in the final years of the 1960s. Scottish filmmaker John Lindsay discovered her early in the next decade and produced a number of her loops. The initial one, Miss Bohrloch, earned the Golden Phallus Award at the Amsterdam Wet Dream Festival in 1970. She later collaborated with directors Russel Gay and Harrison Marks. In 1975 publisher David Sullivan made her the central figure of his Whitehouse magazine, titled after anti-obscenity campaigner Mary Whitehouse, who is also referenced on Pink Floyd’s Animals album. Sullivan gave her the surname Millington, implying a sisterly connection to the magazine’s editor, Doreen Millington.
She swiftly became the United Kingdom’s most photographed and popular glamour model and soon crossed into mainstream cinema with a run of soft-core comedies. Come Play with Me, released in 1977, ranked among the most commercially successful British films ever made. Additional titles included Eskimo Nell, The David Galaxy Affair, The Playbirds, and Queen of the Blues. Her prominence drew sustained official attention, and her final years involved repeated clashes with tax authorities and police raids. Ultimately overwhelmed, she died by suicide on August 19, 1979, shortly after finishing her work on the Sex Pistols project.