John Mills
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 22, 1908, The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK
- Died
- April 23, 2005
- Movies
- 128
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2010 | Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff | Self – Interviewee |
| 2003 | Bright Young Things | Gentleman |
| 2003 | The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough | |
| 2002 | Forever Ealing | Self |
| 2002 | Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making | Self (archive) |
| 2001 | The Gentleman Thief | Arthur Rosehip |
| 2000 | Sir John Mills' Moving Memories | Self |
| 2000 | A Profile of In Which We Serve | Interviewee |
| 1998 | Cats | Gus the Theatre Cat |
| 1997 | Bean | Chairman |
| 1996 | Hamlet | Old King Norway |
| 1995 | The Grotesque | Sir Edward Cleghorn |
| 1994 | Deadly Advice | Jack the Ripper |
| 1993 | Frankenstein | De Lacey |
| 1993 | Harnessing Peacocks | Bernard Quigley |
| 1993 | The Big Freeze | Dapper man |
| 1990 | Night of the Fox | Brig. Dougal Munro |
| 1989 | Ending Up | Bernard |
| 1988 | One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage | Self (uncredited) |
| 1988 | The Lady and the Highwayman | Sir Lawrence Dobson |
| 1987 | Who's That Girl | Montgomery Bell |
| 1986 | When the Wind Blows | Jim Bloggs (voice) |
| 1986 | The Wind and the Bomb | |
| 1985 | Murder with Mirrors | Lewis Serrocold |
| 1985 | The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio | Self |
| 1984 | The Masks of Death | Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator |
| 1983 | Sahara | Cambridge |
| 1983 | Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi | Self |
| 1982 | Gandhi | Lord Chelmsford |
| 1979 | The Quatermass Conclusion | Prof. Bernard Quatermass |
| 1979 | Zulu Dawn | Sir Henry Bartle Frere |
| 1978 | The Thirty Nine Steps | Scudder |
| 1978 | Dr. Strange | Thomas Lindmer |
| 1978 | The Big Sleep | Inspector Carson |
| 1977 | The Devil's Advocate | Monsignor Blaise Meredith |
| 1976 | Trial by Combat | Colonel Bertie Cook |
| 1975 | The Human Factor | Mike McAllister |
| 1973 | Oklahoma Crude | Cleon Doyle |
| 1972 | Lady Caroline Lamb | Canning |
| 1972 | Young Winston | General Kitchner |
| 1971 | Dulcima | Mr. Parker |
| 1970 | Ryan's Daughter | Michael |
| 1970 | Adam's Woman | Sir Philip MacDonald |
| 1969 | Run Wild, Run Free | The Moorman (Colonel) |
| 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War | Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig |
| 1968 | Emma Hamilton | Lord William Hamilton |
| 1968 | A Black Veil for Lisa | Inspector Franz Bulon |
| 1967 | Chuka | Colonel Stuart Valois |
| 1967 | Africa: Texas Style! | Wing Commander Hayes |
| 1966 | The Family Way | Ezra Fitton |
| 1966 | The Wrong Box | Masterman Finsbury |
| 1965 | King Rat | Smedley-Taylor |
| 1965 | Operation Crossbow | General Boyd |
| 1965 | The Truth About Spring | Tommy Tyler |
| 1964 | The Chalk Garden | Maitland |
| 1962 | Tiara Tahiti | Lt. Col. Clifford Southey |
| 1962 | The Valiant | Captain Morgan |
| 1961 | Flame in the Streets | Jacko Palmer |
| 1961 | The Parent Trap | Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited) |
| 1961 | The Singer Not the Song | Father Michael Keogh |
| 1960 | Swiss Family Robinson | Father |
| 1960 | Escape to Paradise/Water Birds | |
| 1960 | Tunes of Glory | Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander) |
| 1959 | Summer of the Seventeenth Doll | Barney |
| 1959 | Tiger Bay | Superintendent Graham |
| 1958 | I Was Monty's Double | Major Harvey |
| 1958 | Ice Cold in Alex | Captain Anson |
| 1958 | Dunkirk | Cpl Tubby Binns |
| 1957 | The Vicious Circle | Dr. Howard Latimer |
| 1957 | Town on Trial | Supt. Mike Halloran |
| 1956 | It's Great to be Young! | Dingle |
| 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days | London Carriage Driver |
| 1956 | The Letter | Robert Crosbie |
| 1956 | War and Peace | Platon Karataev |
| 1956 | The Baby and the Battleship | Puncher Roberts |
| 1955 | Escapade | John Hampden |
| 1955 | Above Us the Waves | Commandant Fraser |
| 1955 | The End of the Affair | Albert Parkis |
| 1955 | The Colditz Story | Pat Reid |
| 1954 | Hobson's Choice | William Mossop |
| 1953 | The Long Memory | Phillip Davidson |
| 1952 | The Gentle Gunman | Terence Sullivan |
| 1952 | The Way to Wimbledon | Self - Commentator |
| 1951 | Mr. Denning Drives North | Tom Denning |
| 1950 | Morning Departure | Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong |
| 1949 | The Rocking Horse Winner | Bassett |
| 1949 | The History of Mr. Polly | Alfred Polly |
| 1948 | Scott of the Antarctic | Captain R.F. Scott R.N. |
| 1947 | The October Man | Jim Ackland |
| 1947 | So Well Remembered | George Boswell |
| 1946 | Great Expectations | Pip |
| 1946 | Land of Promise | The Voice |
| 1945 | The Way to the Stars | Pilot Officer Peter Penrose |
| 1945 | Waterloo Road | Jim Colter |
| 1945 | Total War in Britain | Narrator (voice) |
| 1944 | This Happy Breed | Billy Mitchell |
| 1944 | Information Please | British Flyer |
| 1944 | Victory Wedding | Bill Clark |
| 1943 | We Dive at Dawn | Lt. Taylor RN |
| 1943 | The Sky’s the Limit | Tom |
| 1942 | The Young Mr. Pitt | William Wilberforce |
| 1942 | In Which We Serve | Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake |
| 1942 | The Black Sheep of Whitehall | Bobby Jessop |
| 1942 | The Big Blockade | Tom |
| 1941 | Cottage to Let | Flt·Lieut. Perry |
| 1941 | Old Bill and Son | Young Bill |
| 1940 | All Hands | Jack |
| 1939 | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Peter Colley as a Young Man |
| 1939 | Happy Family | Fred |
| 1937 | The Green Cockatoo | Jim Connor |
| 1937 | O.H.M.S. | Cpl. Bert Dawson |
| 1936 | Tudor Rose | Lord Guilford Dudley |
| 1936 | First Offence | Johnnie Penrose |
| 1935 | Broadway Gondolier | |
| 1935 | Brown on Resolution | Albert Brown |
| 1935 | Royal Cavalcade | Young Enlistee |
| 1935 | Blind Justice | Ralph Summers |
| 1935 | Car of Dreams | Robert Miller |
| 1935 | Charing Cross Road | Tony |
| 1934 | Doctor's Orders | Ronnie Blake |
| 1934 | The Lash | Arthur Haughton |
| 1934 | A Political Party | Tony Smithers |
| 1934 | Those Were the Days | Bobby Poskett |
| 1933 | The Ghost Camera | Ernest Elton |
| 1933 | Britannia of Billingsgate | Fred Bolton |
| 1932 | The Midshipmaid | Golightly |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1966 | Sky West and Crooked | Director |
| 1949 | The Rocking Horse Winner | Producer |
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