Mary Millington

Career

Born Mary Ruth Quilter in Kenton, Middlesex, Mary Millington moved from glamour modelling into hardcore film around 1970, winning the Golden Phallus at Amsterdam’s Wet Dream Film Festival for Miss Bohrloch that year. She adopted the Millington stage name in 1974 when introduced to the publisher David Sullivan, and starred in the softcore feature Come Play with Me (1977), which ran in British cinemas for a record theatrical stretch under the pre-1984 classification system this article covers. She opened her own sex shop in Tooting, south London, in 1978, appeared in the Sex Pistols film The Great Rock ’n’ Roll Swindle in 1980, and campaigned publicly for pornography law reform through the English Collective of Prostitutes. She died by overdose on 19 August 1979, aged 33, and was included in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography in 2004. That ODNB entry — titled "Millington, Mary [real name Mary Ruth Quilter; married name Mary Ruth Maxted] (1945–1979), sex worker and actress," published 23 September 2004 — independently confirms her real name and birth year against a genuinely independent, editorially reviewed national biographical reference rather than a Wikipedia-only claim.

Signature: The performer whose career and death predate every piece of the regulatory framework this article is built around — the Video Recordings Act came five years after she died — and who is still cited in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as a result.

Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0

Full award record1 entries

• 1970Wet Dream Film Festival — Golden Phallus (Miss Bohrloch)

Best known for

Beyond performing

• Operated Mary Millington’s International Sex Centre, Tooting (1978)

Mainstream credits

• The Great Rock ’n’ Roll Swindle (1980)
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry (2004)

Official links

Official site

Ranked alongside

• Sophie Dee
• Danny D
• Keiran Lee
• Ella Hughes
• Georgie Lyall
• Tanya Tate

Sources and verification2 sources

Last audited 22 August 2026 · Wikipedia — Mary Millington · Oxford Dictionary of National Biography — Millington, Mary

Not yet confirmed:

• Wet Dream Film Festival has no independent English Wikipedia coverage of its own; the Golden Phallus award is sourced to her own Wikipedia article and is not independently itemised in the ODNB entry, which is subscription-gated beyond its header