John Mills

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-02-22 (97 years old)

Deathday

2005-04-23

Place of Birth

The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK

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.

Acting

1997

Bean

as Chairman

1982

Gandhi

as Lord Chelmsford

1993

Frankenstein

as De Lacey

1978

The Big Sleep

as Inspector Carson

1986

When the Wind Blows

as Jim Bloggs (voice)

1969

Oh! What a Lovely War

as Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig

1985

Murder with Mirrors

as Lewis Serrocold

1956

War and Peace

as Platon Karataev

1975

The Human Factor

as Mike McAllister

1937

The Green Cockatoo

as Jim Connor

1998

Cats

as Gus the Theatre Cat

1987

Who's That Girl

as Montgomery Bell

1942

In Which We Serve

as Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake

1984

The Masks of Death

as Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator

1979

The Quatermass Conclusion

as Prof. Bernard Quatermass

1955

Above Us the Waves

as Commandant Fraser

1965

King Rat

as Smedley-Taylor

1965

Operation Crossbow

as General Boyd

1939

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

as Peter Colley as a Young Man

1978

1960

Tunes of Glory

as Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)

1959

Tiger Bay

as Superintendent Graham

1948

Scott of the Antarctic

as Captain R.F. Scott R.N.

1943

We Dive at Dawn

as Lt. Taylor RN

1951

1966

The Wrong Box

as Masterman Finsbury

1945

The Way to the Stars

as Pilot Officer Peter Penrose

1958

Ice Cold in Alex

as Captain Anson

1954

Hobson's Choice

as William Mossop

1970

Ryan's Daughter

as Michael

1955

1967

Chuka

as Colonel Stuart Valois

1964

The Chalk Garden

as Maitland

1972

Young Winston

as General Kitchner

1950

Morning Departure

as Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong

1958

Dunkirk

as Cpl Tubby Binns

1947

The October Man

as Jim Ackland

1983

Sahara

as Cambridge

1945

Waterloo Road

as Jim Colter

1968

Emma Hamilton

as Lord William Hamilton

1966

The Family Way

as Ezra Fitton

1944

This Happy Breed

as Billy Mitchell

1953

The Long Memory

as Phillip Davidson

1971

Dulcima

as Mr. Parker

1978

Dr. Strange

as Thomas Lindmer

1952

The Gentle Gunman

as Terence Sullivan

1941

Cottage to Let

as Flt·Lieut. Perry

1949

1990

Night of the Fox

as Brig. Dougal Munro

1955

The End of the Affair

as Albert Parkis

1956

The Baby and the Battleship

as Puncher Roberts

1958

I Was Monty's Double

as Major Harvey

1976

Trial by Combat

as Colonel Bertie Cook

1988

The Lady and the Highwayman

as Sir Lawrence Dobson

1961

The Singer Not the Song

as Father Michael Keogh

1969

Run Wild, Run Free

as The Moorman (Colonel)

1957

Town on Trial

as Supt. Mike Halloran

1957

The Vicious Circle

as Dr. Howard Latimer

1968

A Black Veil for Lisa

as Inspector Franz Bulon

1933

1962

Tiara Tahiti

as Lt. Col. Clifford Southey

1935

Royal Cavalcade

as Young Enlistee

1973

Oklahoma Crude

as Cleon Doyle

1962

The Valiant

as Captain Morgan

1942

1933

The Ghost Camera

as Ernest Elton

1965

1935

Car of Dreams

as Robert Miller

1937

O.H.M.S.

as Cpl. Bert Dawson

1955

Escapade

as John Hampden

1967

Africa: Texas Style!

as Wing Commander Hayes

1934

Those Were the Days

as Bobby Poskett

2002

1952

The Way to Wimbledon

as Self - Commentator

1947

So Well Remembered

as George Boswell

1972

1996

Hamlet

as Old King Norway

1993

The Big Freeze

as Dapper man

1961

Flame in the Streets

as Jacko Palmer

1977

The Devil's Advocate

as Monsignor Blaise Meredith

1939

1935

Brown on Resolution

as Albert Brown

1970

Adam's Woman

as Sir Philip MacDonald

1995

The Grotesque

as Sir Edward Cleghorn

1932

The Midshipmaid

as Golightly

1936

Tudor Rose

as Lord Guilford Dudley

1979

Zulu Dawn

as Sir Henry Bartle Frere

1934

Doctor's Orders

as Ronnie Blake

1941

Old Bill and Son

as Young Bill

1934

A Political Party

as Tony Smithers

1944

Victory Wedding

as Bill Clark

2003

1993

Harnessing Peacocks

as Bernard Quigley

1956

Around the World in Eighty Days

as London Carriage Driver

1989

Ending Up

as Bernard

1936

First Offence

as Johnnie Penrose

1961

The Parent Trap

as Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)

1934

The Lash

as Arthur Haughton

1942

The Young Mr. Pitt

as William Wilberforce

1994

Deadly Advice

as Jack the Ripper

1946

Land of Promise

as The Voice

1935

Blind Justice

as Ralph Summers

1940

All Hands

as Jack

1944

Information Please

as British Flyer

1945

Total War in Britain

as Narrator (voice)

2001

The Gentleman Thief

as Arthur Rosehip

Production

1966

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