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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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Filmography
all 150
Movies 124
TV Shows 26
self 22
Narrator 2
Director 1
Self
Talking Pictures (2013)
TV
Self – Interviewee
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)
Movie
Gentleman
Bright Young Things (2003)
Movie
Self
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough (2003)
Movie
Self
Forever Ealing (2002)
Movie
Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001)
TV
Self
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (2000)
Movie
Self
A Profile of In Which We Serve (2000)
Movie
Self
An Audience with Cliff Richard (1999)
Movie
Gus the Theatre Cat
Cats (1998)
Movie
Chairman
Bean (1997)
Movie
8.67
Old King Norway
Hamlet (1996)
Movie
Self
Clive Anderson All Talk (1996)
TV
Sir Edward Cleghorn
The Grotesque (1995)
Movie
Mr. Chuffey
Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)
TV
Jack the Ripper
Deadly Advice (1994)
Movie
De Lacey
Frankenstein (1993)
Movie
Bernard Quigley
Harnessing Peacocks (1993)
Movie
Dapper man
The Big Freeze (1993)
Movie
Self
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward (1992)
Movie
Brig. Dougal Munro
Night of the Fox (1990)
Movie
Praeger
Perfect Scoundrels (1990)
TV
Jarvis Lorry
A Tale of Two Cities (1989)
TV
Faversham
Around the World in 80 Days (1989)
TV
4
Bernard
Ending Up (1989)
Movie
Self (uncredited)
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage (1988)
Movie
Sir Lawrence Dobson
The Lady and the Highwayman (1988)
Movie
Self
The Dame Edna Experience (1987)
TV
Montgomery Bell
Who's That Girl (1987)
Movie
6
Henry Rossiter
Hold the Dream (1986)
TV
Jim Bloggs
When the Wind Blows (1986)
Movie
2
The Wind and the Bomb (1986)
Movie
Lewis Serrocold
Murder with Mirrors (1985)
Movie
Henry Rossiter
A Woman of Substance (1985)
TV
Self
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio (1985)
Movie
Doctor Watson
The Masks of Death (1984)
Movie
Cambridge
Sahara (1983)
Movie
Self
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi (1983)
Movie
Lord Chelmsford
Gandhi (1982)
Movie
4.44
Hotel (1982)
TV
6.35
Self
Wogan (1982)
TV
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Quatermass (1979)
TV
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
The Quatermass Conclusion (1979)
Movie
Sir Henry Bartle Frere
Zulu Dawn (1979)
Movie
Sam Morrissey / The Man / William Perkins
Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
TV
Self - Reader
Late Night Story (1978)
TV
Scudder
The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
Movie
Thomas Lindmer
Dr. Strange (1978)
Movie
5
Inspector Carson
The Big Sleep (1978)
Movie
Self
An Audience with... (1978)
TV
Monsignor Blaise Meredith
The Devil's Advocate (1977)
Movie
Bertram MacDonald
The Love Boat (1977)
TV
6.85
Young at Heart (1977)
TV
Colonel Bertie Cook
Trial by Combat (1976)
Movie
Mike McAllister
The Human Factor (1975)
Movie
Thomas 'The Elephant' Devon
The Zoo Gang (1974)
TV
Cleon
Oklahoma Crude (1973)
Movie
6
Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ... (1973)
TV
Canning
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
Movie
General Kitchner
Young Winston (1972)
Movie
1
Mr. Parker
Dulcima (1971)
Movie
Sir Philip MacDonald
Adam's Woman (1970)
Movie
Michael
Ryan's Daughter (1970)
Movie
Uncle Alfred
Nanny and the Professor (1970)
TV
5.3
The Moorman
Run Wild, Run Free (1969)
Movie
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
Movie
Lord William Hamilton
Emma Hamilton (1968)
Movie
Inspector Franz Bulon
A Black Veil for Lisa (1968)
Movie
Dundee
Dundee and the Culhane (1967)
TV
Col. Stuart Valois
Chuka (1967)
Movie
6
Wing Commander Hayes
Africa: Texas Style! (1967)
Movie
Ezra Fitton
The Family Way (1966)
Movie
Masterman Finsbury
The Wrong Box (1966)
Movie
Smedley-Taylor
King Rat (1965)
Movie
Director
Sky West and Crooked (1965)
Movie
General Boyd
Operation Crossbow (1965)
Movie
Tommy Tyler
The Truth About Spring (1965)
Movie
Maitland
The Chalk Garden (1964)
Movie
Self
The Danny Kaye Show (1963)
TV
Self
The Merv Griffin Show (1962)
TV
Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
Tiara Tahiti (1962)
Movie
Capt. Morgan
The Valiant (1962)
Movie
Jacko Palmer
Flame in the Streets (1961)
Movie
Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
The Parent Trap (1961)
Movie
5.07
Father Michael Keogh
The Singer Not the Song (1961)
Movie
Father Robinson
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Movie
4
Lt. Col. Basil Barrow
Tunes of Glory (1960)
Movie
Barney
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959)
Movie
Superintendent Graham
Tiger Bay (1959)
Movie
Major Harvey
I Was Monty's Double (1958)
Movie
Captain Anson
Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
Movie
Corporal 'Tubby' Binns
Dunkirk (1958)
Movie
Dr. Howard Latimer
The Vicious Circle (1957)
Movie
Supt. Mike Halloran
Town on Trial (1957)
Movie
Dingle
It's Great to be Young! (1956)
Movie
London Carriage Driver
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Movie
4.67
Platon Karataev
War and Peace (1956)
Movie
Puncher Roberts
The Baby and the Battleship (1956)
Movie
John Hampden
Escapade (1955)
Movie
Cmdr. Fraser
Above Us the Waves (1955)
Movie
Albert Parkis
The End of the Affair (1955)
Movie
Pat Reid
The Colditz Story (1955)
Movie
William Mossop
Hobson's Choice (1954)
Movie
Phillip Davidson
The Long Memory (1953)
Movie
Terence Sullivan
The Gentle Gunman (1952)
Movie
Self - Commentator
The Way to Wimbledon (1952)
Movie
Tom Denning
Mr. Denning Drives North (1951)
Movie
Lieut. Commander Armstrong
Morning Departure (1950)
Movie
Bassett
The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)
Movie
Alfred Polly
The History of Mr. Polly (1949)
Movie
Captain R.F. Scott R.N.
Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
Movie
6
Jim Ackland
The October Man (1947)
Movie
George Boswell
So Well Remembered (1947)
Movie
Pip
Great Expectations (1946)
Movie
5.67
The Voice
Land of Promise (1946)
Movie
Peter Penrose
The Way to the Stars (1945)
Movie
8
Jim Colter
Waterloo Road (1945)
Movie
Narrator
Total War in Britain (1945)
Movie
Billy Mitchell
This Happy Breed (1944)
Movie
British Flyer
Information Please (1944)
Movie
Captain - Lt. Taylor, R.N.
We Dive at Dawn (1943)
Movie
Tom
The Sky’s the Limit (1943)
Movie
William Wilberforce
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
Movie
Ordinary Seaman Shorty Blake
In Which We Serve (1942)
Movie
Bobby Jessop
The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
Movie
Tom
The Big Blockade (1942)
Movie
Flt·Lieut. Perry
Cottage to Let (1941)
Movie
Young Bill Busby
Old Bill and Son (1941)
Movie
Jack
All Hands (1940)
Movie
Peter Colley as a Young Man
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Movie
Fred
Happy Family (1939)
Movie
Jim Connor
The Green Cockatoo (1937)
Movie
Cpl. Bert Dawson
O.H.M.S. (1937)
Movie
Lord Guilford Dudley
Tudor Rose (1936)
Movie
Broadway Gondolier (1935)
Movie
Albert Brown
Brown on Resolution (1935)
Movie
Young Enlistee
Royal Cavalcade (1935)
Movie
Ralph Summers
Blind Justice (1935)
Movie
Robert Miller
Car of Dreams (1935)
Movie
Tony
Charing Cross Road (1935)
Movie
Ronnie Blake
Doctor's Orders (1934)
Movie
Arthur Haughton
The Lash (1934)
Movie
Tony Smithers
A Political Party (1934)
Movie
Bobby Poskett
Those Were the Days (1934)
Movie
Ernest Elton
The Ghost Camera (1933)
Movie
Fred Bolton
Britannia of Billingsgate (1933)
Movie
Golightly
The Midshipmaid (1932)
Movie
John Mills
The Big Broadcast (1932)
Movie
Lewis Serrocold
Murder with Mirrors
TV
Narrator
The Best of British Cinema
TV
Ratings
Average 5.8
Based on 725 Thousand movie and tv ratings over time
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1908-02-22
Deathday2005-04-23 (97 years old)
Birth NameLewis Ernest Watts Mills
Birth PlaceWatts Naval School, United Kingdom
Height170-centimeter
RelationshipsAileen Raymond (1932-03-12 - 1941-01-01), Mary Hayley Bell (1941-01-16 - 2005-01-01)
ChildrenJuliet Mills, Hayley Mills
SiblingsAnnette Mills
RelativesCrispian Mills, Susie Blake, Molly Blake
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known AsLewis Ernest Watts Mills, Sir John Mills, Sir John Mills, CBE, Johnny Mills, Джон Миллз
AwardsCommander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, Disney Legends, Knight Bachelor, Silver Shell for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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