John Mills

Biography

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.

Known For

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

Personal Info

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