The Hollywood superstar, 58, waved and smiled at onlookers after he got out his helicopter on a field near Pickering, North Yorkshire. Residents were star-struck to see the A-List celebrity record the seventh film in the Mission Impossible series in the quiet town.

Sarah Jones, who runs Pear Tree House Bed & Breakfast nearby, told Yorkshire Live of her joy.

She said: “It was very exciting, I wanted to see who it was.

“Tom Cruise is one of the few celebrities I could ever recognise so I was so excited to see him.

“I don’t think he’s ever been met by a group of dog walkers before. He was very friendly, he waved and said hello and said he was pleased to be here and said the weather was lovely.”

The actor was later seen driving a slick BMW in…