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