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