From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Chairman
Bean
Lord Chelmsford
Gandhi
De Lacey
Frankenstein
Inspector Carson
The Big Sleep
Self
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Jim Bloggs (voice)
When the Wind Blows
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
Oh! What a Lovely War
Lewis Serrocold
Murder with Mirrors
Platon Karataev
War and Peace
Mike McAllister
The Human Factor
Jim Connor
The Green Cockatoo
Gus the Theatre Cat
Cats
Montgomery Bell
Who's That Girl
Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake
In Which We Serve
Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator
The Masks of Death
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
The Quatermass Conclusion
Commandant Fraser
Above Us the Waves
Smedley-Taylor
King Rat
General Boyd
Operation Crossbow
Pip
Great Expectations
Peter Colley as a Young Man
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Scudder
The Thirty Nine Steps
Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)
Tunes of Glory
Superintendent Graham
Tiger Bay
Bassett
The Rocking Horse Winner
Captain R.F. Scott R.N.
Scott of the Antarctic
Lt. Taylor RN
We Dive at Dawn
Tom Denning
Mr. Denning Drives North
Masterman Finsbury
The Wrong Box
Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
The Way to the Stars
Captain Anson
Ice Cold in Alex
William Mossop
Hobson's Choice
Michael
Ryan's Daughter
Pat Reid
The Colditz Story
Colonel Stuart Valois
Chuka
Maitland
The Chalk Garden
General Kitchner
Young Winston
Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong
Morning Departure
Father
Swiss Family Robinson
Cpl Tubby Binns
Dunkirk
Jim Ackland
The October Man
Cambridge
Sahara
Jim Colter
Waterloo Road
Lord William Hamilton
Le calde notti di Lady Hamilton
Ezra Fitton
The Family Way
Billy Mitchell
This Happy Breed
Phillip Davidson
The Long Memory
Mr. Parker
Dulcima
Thomas Lindmer
Dr. Strange
Terence Sullivan
The Gentle Gunman
Flt·Lieut. Perry
Cottage to Let
Alfred Polly
The History of Mr. Polly
Brig. Dougal Munro
Night of the Fox
Albert Parkis
The End of the Affair
Puncher Roberts
The Baby and the Battleship
Major Harvey
I Was Monty's Double
Colonel Bertie Cook
Trial by Combat
Sir Lawrence Dobson
The Lady and the Highwayman
Father Michael Keogh
The Singer Not the Song
The Moorman (Colonel)
Run Wild, Run Free
Barney
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Supt. Mike Halloran
Town on Trial
Dr. Howard Latimer
The Vicious Circle
Inspector Franz Bulon
La morte non ha sesso
Fred Bolton
Britannia of Billingsgate
Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
Tiara Tahiti
Young Enlistee
Royal Cavalcade
Cleon Doyle
Oklahoma Crude
Captain Morgan
The Valiant
Bobby Jessop
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Ernest Elton
The Ghost Camera
Tommy Tyler
The Truth About Spring
Robert Miller
Car of Dreams
Cpl. Bert Dawson
O.H.M.S.
John Hampden
Escapade
Wing Commander Hayes
Africa: Texas Style!
Bobby Poskett
Those Were the Days
Self
Forever Ealing
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
Tom
The Big Blockade
Self - Commentator
The Way to Wimbledon
George Boswell
So Well Remembered
Canning
Lady Caroline Lamb
Old King Norway
Hamlet
Dapper man
The Big Freeze
Jacko Palmer
Flame in the Streets
Self (uncredited)
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Monsignor Blaise Meredith
Des Teufels Advokat
Tom
The Sky’s the Limit
Fred
Happy Family
Albert Brown
Brown on Resolution
Sir Philip MacDonald
Adam's Woman
Broadway Gondolier
Sir Edward Cleghorn
The Grotesque
Golightly
The Midshipmaid
Lord Guilford Dudley
Tudor Rose
Sir Henry Bartle Frere
Zulu Dawn
Ronnie Blake
Doctor's Orders
Self
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Self
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward
Young Bill
Old Bill and Son
Tony Smithers
A Political Party
Bill Clark
Victory Wedding
Gentleman
Bright Young Things
Bernard Quigley
Harnessing Peacocks
London Carriage Driver
Around the World in Eighty Days
Bernard
Ending Up
Johnnie Penrose
First Offence
Tony
Charing Cross Road
Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
The Parent Trap
Arthur Haughton
The Lash
William Wilberforce
The Young Mr. Pitt
Dingle
It's Great to be Young!
Interviewee
A Profile of In Which We Serve
Jack the Ripper
Deadly Advice
The Voice
Land of Promise
Ralph Summers
Blind Justice
Jack
All Hands
Self – Interviewee
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
British Flyer
Information Please
The Wind and the Bomb
Self
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
Narrator (voice)
Total War in Britain
Self (archive)
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
Arthur Rosehip
The Gentleman Thief
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
126
Gender
Male
Birthday
1908-02-22
Place of Birth
The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK
Also Known As
Lewis Ernest Watts Mills