---
title: 'The Baby and the Battleship (1956)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jay Lewis'
released: '1956-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-baby-and-the-battleship-1956'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048974/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Baby and the Battleship (1956)

1956 · Comedy · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

The Baby and the Battleship is a colour 1956 British comedy film directed by Jay Lewis and starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and André Morell. It is based on the 1956 novel by Anthony Thorne with a screenplay by Richard De Roy, Gilbert Hackforth-Jones and Bryan Forbes. The Royal Navy provided much cooperation with sequences filmed aboard HMS Birmingham and in Malta.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jay Lewis](https://cinepixo.com/people/jay-lewis)
- **Screenplay:** [Jay Lewis](https://cinepixo.com/people/jay-lewis)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Humphrey Searle](https://cinepixo.com/people/humphrey-searle)
- **Producer:** [Antony Darnborough](https://cinepixo.com/people/antony-darnborough)
- **Director of Photography:** [Harry Waxman](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-waxman)

## Cast

- [Thorley Walters](https://cinepixo.com/people/thorley-walters)
- [Ferdy Mayne](https://cinepixo.com/people/ferdy-mayne)
- [Yvonne Romain](https://cinepixo.com/people/yvonne-romain)
- [John Le Mesurier](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-le-mesurier)
- [Lisa Gastoni](https://cinepixo.com/people/lisa-gastoni)
- [Michael Hordern](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-hordern)
- [Martin Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-miller)
- [John Mills](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-mills)
- [Gordon Jackson](https://cinepixo.com/people/gordon-jackson)
- [Duncan Lamont](https://cinepixo.com/people/duncan-lamont)
- [André Morell](https://cinepixo.com/people/andre-morell)
- [Richard Attenborough](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-attenborough)
- [Lionel Jeffries](https://cinepixo.com/people/lionel-jeffries)
- [Patrick Allen](https://cinepixo.com/people/patrick-allen)
- [Michael Howard](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-howard)

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