John Mills
Born in The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK — Feb 22 1908• Died Apr 23 2005
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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.
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John Mills's Credits
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The Love Boat
Bertram MacDonald
Hotel
Tales of the Unexpected
Sam Morrissey
The Danny Kaye Show
Self
Nanny and the Professor
Uncle Alfred
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
Producers' Showcase
Robert Crosbie
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
A Woman of Substance
Henry Rossiter
Gandhi
Lord Chelmsford
Bean
Chairman
The Parent Trap
Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
Martin Chuzzlewit
Mr Chuffey
Hamlet
Old King Norway
Quatermass
Bernard Quatermass
Perfect Scoundrels
Praeger
The Zoo Gang
Thomas "The Elephant" Devon
Around the World in 80 Days
Faversham
Around the World in 80 Days
London Carriage Driver
Hold the Dream
Henry Rossiter
The Dame Edna Experience
Self
The Big Sleep
Inspector Carson
Dundee and the Culhane
Dundee
War and Peace
Platon Karataev
Cats
Gus the Theatre Cat
Young at Heart
Albert Collyer
Young Winston
General Kitchner
Oh! What a Lovely War
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
A Tale of Two Cities
Jarvis Lorry
Great Expectations
Pip
Tiger Bay
Superintendent Graham
Dunkirk
Cpl Tubby Binns
Operation Crossbow
General Boyd
Bright Young Things
Gentleman
The Best of British Cinema
Self - Narrator
The Baby and the Battleship
Puncher Roberts
Chuka
Colonel Stuart Valois
Zulu Dawn
Sir Henry Bartle Frere
Swiss Family Robinson
Father
Hobson's Choice
William Mossop
The Wrong Box
Masterman Finsbury
Dr. Strange
Thomas Lindmer
Sahara
Cambridge
Who's That Girl
Montgomery Bell
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Peter Colley as a Young Man
King Rat
Smedley-Taylor
The Lady and the Highwayman
Sir Lawrence Dobson
Oklahoma Crude
Cleon Doyle
Ryan's Daughter
Michael
Dulcima
Mr. Parker
The Thirty Nine Steps
Scudder
Deadly Advice
Jack the Ripper
Scott of the Antarctic
Captain R.F. Scott R.N.
The Colditz Story
Pat Reid
In Which We Serve
Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake
We Dive at Dawn
Lt. Taylor RN
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Self – Interviewee
Trial by Combat
Colonel Bertie Cook
Tiara Tahiti
Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Self
When the Wind Blows
Jim Bloggs (voice)
So Well Remembered
George Boswell
Tunes of Glory
Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)
The Family Way
Ezra Fitton
The October Man
Jim Ackland
Ice Cold in Alex
Captain Anson
This Happy Breed
Billy Mitchell
Lady Caroline Lamb
Canning
Cottage to Let
Flt·Lieut. Perry
The End of the Affair
Albert Parkis
The Human Factor
Mike McAllister
The Big Blockade
Tom
Flame in the Streets
Jacko Palmer
Ending Up
Bernard
Murder with Mirrors
Lewis Serrocold
The History of Mr. Polly
Alfred Polly
The Valiant
Captain Morgan
The Grotesque
Sir Edward Cleghorn
Tudor Rose
Lord Guilford Dudley
Forever Ealing
Self
Night of the Fox
Brig. Dougal Munro
The Way to the Stars
Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
I Was Monty's Double
Major Harvey
First Offence
Johnnie Penrose
The Big Freeze
Dapper man
Old Bill and Son
Young Bill
The Chalk Garden
Maitland
Adam's Woman
Sir Philip MacDonald
The Green Cockatoo
Jim Connor
Royal Cavalcade
Young Enlistee
The Rocking Horse Winner
Bassett
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Self (uncredited)
Mr. Denning Drives North
Tom Denning
Morning Departure
Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong
The Truth About Spring
Tommy Tyler
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
Self
The Masks of Death
Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator
Harnessing Peacocks
Bernard Quigley
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
The Gentle Gunman
Terence Sullivan
Town on Trial
Supt. Mike Halloran
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Self
Car of Dreams
Robert Miller
The Singer Not the Song
Father Michael Keogh
The Vicious Circle
Dr. Howard Latimer
The Quatermass Conclusion
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Broadway Gondolier
Above Us the Waves
Commandant Fraser
Emma Hamilton
Lord William Hamilton
A Black Veil for Lisa
Inspector Franz Bulon
Africa: Texas Style!
Wing Commander Hayes
Waterloo Road
Jim Colter
The Young Mr. Pitt
William Wilberforce
The Devil's Advocate
Monsignor Blaise Meredith
The Midshipmaid
Golightly
The Ghost Camera
Ernest Elton
Frankenstein
De Lacey
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Barney
It's Great to be Young!
Dingle
Escapade
John Hampden
All Hands
Jack
The Sky’s the Limit
Tom
Doctor's Orders
Ronnie Blake
Happy Family
Fred
Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
Run Wild, Run Free
The Moorman (Colonel)
Late Night Story
self
Brown on Resolution
Albert Brown
O.H.M.S.
Cpl. Bert Dawson
Those Were the Days
Bobby Poskett
The Long Memory
Phillip Davidson
Sky West and Crooked
Directing
Britannia of Billingsgate
Fred Bolton
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
Self (archive)
Victory Wedding
Bill Clark
Land of Promise
The Voice
Blind Justice
Ralph Summers
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Bobby Jessop
Information Please
British Flyer
A Profile of In Which We Serve
Interviewee
The Gentleman Thief
Arthur Rosehip
The Lash
Arthur Haughton
Charing Cross Road
Tony
Total War in Britain
Narrator (voice)
A Political Party
Tony Smithers
The Wind and the Bomb
The Way to Wimbledon
Self - Commentator