John Mills
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Sir John Mills, CBE (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills; 22 February 1908 – 23 April 2005) was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. On screen, he often played people who are not at all exceptional, but become heroes because of their common sense, generosity and good judgement.
Known for
Credits
Who's That Girl (1987)
as Montgomery Bell
The Parent Trap (1961)
as Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
Bean (1997)
as Chairman
Gandhi (1982)
as Lord Chelmsford
Sahara (1983)
as Cambridge
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
as London Carriage Driver
War and Peace (1956)
as Platon Karataev
Hamlet (1996)
as Old King Norway
Great Expectations (1946)
as Pip
Cats (1998)
as Gus the Theatre Cat
The Colditz Story (1955)
as Pat Reid
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
as Father
Dr. Strange (1978)
as Thomas Lindmer
Ryan's Daughter (1970)
as Michael
Zulu Dawn (1979)
as Sir Henry Bartle Frere
Chuka (1967)
as Colonel Stuart Valois
Dunkirk (1958)
as Cpl Tubby Binns
The Big Sleep (1978)
as Inspector Carson
Young Winston (1972)
as General Kitchner
Operation Crossbow (1965)
as General Boyd
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
as Peter Colley as a Young Man
Tiger Bay (1959)
as Superintendent Graham
King Rat (1965)
as Smedley-Taylor
In Which We Serve (1942)
as Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake
When the Wind Blows (1986)
as Jim Bloggs (voice)
The History of Mr. Polly (1949)
as Alfred Polly
Bright Young Things (2003)
as Gentleman
The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
as Scudder
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)
as Self – Interviewee
Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
as Captain Anson
The Wrong Box (1966)
as Masterman Finsbury
Hobson's Choice (1954)
as William Mossop
Cottage to Let (1941)
as Flt·Lieut. Perry
This Happy Breed (1944)
as Billy Mitchell
The Chalk Garden (1964)
as Maitland
Tiara Tahiti (1962)
as Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
The Family Way (1966)
as Ezra Fitton
The Lady and the Highwayman (1988)
as Sir Lawrence Dobson
The Grotesque (1995)
as Sir Edward Cleghorn
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
as Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
Forever Ealing (2002)
as Self
Deadly Advice (1994)
as Jack the Ripper
Tudor Rose (1936)
as Lord Guilford Dudley
Ending Up (1989)
as Bernard
I Was Monty's Double (1958)
as Major Harvey
The End of the Affair (1955)
as Albert Parkis
Murder with Mirrors (1985)
as Lewis Serrocold
The Valiant (1962)
as Captain Morgan
Night of the Fox (1990)
as Brig. Dougal Munro
Brown on Resolution (1935)
as Albert Brown
Broadway Gondolier (1935)
Actor
The October Man (1947)
as Jim Ackland
Oklahoma Crude (1973)
as Cleon Doyle
Morning Departure (1950)
as Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong
The Letter (1956)
as Robert Crosbie
Tunes of Glory (1960)
as Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)
We Dive at Dawn (1943)
as Lt. Taylor RN
A Black Veil for Lisa (1968)
as Inspector Franz Bulon
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
as Canning
Emma Hamilton (1968)
as Lord William Hamilton
Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
as Captain R.F. Scott R.N.
The Devil's Advocate (1977)
as Monsignor Blaise Meredith
Escapade (1955)
as John Hampden
Trial by Combat (1976)
as Colonel Bertie Cook
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
as William Wilberforce
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio (1985)
as Self
Town on Trial (1957)
as Supt. Mike Halloran
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage (1988)
as Self (uncredited)
The Masks of Death (1984)
as Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator
Run Wild, Run Free (1969)
as The Moorman (Colonel)
Dulcima (1971)
as Mr. Parker
The Human Factor (1975)
as Mike McAllister
The Baby and the Battleship (1956)
as Puncher Roberts
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making (2002)
as Self (archive)
Mr. Denning Drives North (1951)
as Tom Denning
The Gentle Gunman (1952)
as Terence Sullivan
Africa: Texas Style! (1967)
as Wing Commander Hayes
So Well Remembered (1947)
as George Boswell
Frankenstein (1993)
as De Lacey
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (2000)
as Self
Above Us the Waves (1955)
as Commandant Fraser
Flame in the Streets (1961)
as Jacko Palmer
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959)
as Barney
The Quatermass Conclusion (1979)
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
The Way to the Stars (1945)
as Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
The Green Cockatoo (1937)
as Jim Connor
The Singer Not the Song (1961)
as Father Michael Keogh
The Truth About Spring (1965)
as Tommy Tyler
The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)
as Bassett
The Vicious Circle (1957)
as Dr. Howard Latimer
The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
as Bobby Jessop
It's Great to be Young! (1956)
as Dingle
Royal Cavalcade (1935)
as Young Enlistee
Adam's Woman (1970)
as Sir Philip MacDonald
O.H.M.S. (1937)
as Cpl. Bert Dawson
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough (2003)
Actor
The Long Memory (1953)
as Phillip Davidson
The Big Freeze (1993)
as Dapper man
The Gentleman Thief (2001)
as Arthur Rosehip
Waterloo Road (1945)
as Jim Colter
Those Were the Days (1934)
as Bobby Poskett
Old Bill and Son (1941)
as Young Bill
First Offence (1936)
as Johnnie Penrose
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi (1983)
as Self
The Lash (1934)
as Arthur Haughton
All Hands (1940)
as Jack
Harnessing Peacocks (1993)
as Bernard Quigley
The Ghost Camera (1933)
as Ernest Elton
Information Please (1944)
as British Flyer
The Big Blockade (1942)
as Tom
Escape to Paradise/Water Birds (1960)
Actor
Car of Dreams (1935)
as Robert Miller
Doctor's Orders (1934)
as Ronnie Blake
Victory Wedding (1944)
as Bill Clark
Blind Justice (1935)
as Ralph Summers
The Wind and the Bomb (1986)
Actor
Britannia of Billingsgate (1933)
as Fred Bolton
Charing Cross Road (1935)
as Tony
The Way to Wimbledon (1952)
as Self - Commentator
A Political Party (1934)
as Tony Smithers
Happy Family (1939)
as Fred
The Sky’s the Limit (1943)
as Tom
Land of Promise (1946)
as The Voice
The Midshipmaid (1932)
as Golightly
A Profile of In Which We Serve (2000)
as Interviewee
Total War in Britain (1945)
as Narrator (voice)