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