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