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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 22, 1908
Died
April 23, 2005
Place of Birth
The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK
Also Known As
- Lewis Ernest Watts Mills
- Sir John Mills
- Sir John Mills, CBE
- Johnny Mills
- Джон Миллз
John Mills
1.2 Popularity
Biography
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
5.8
Self (archive footage)
Talking Pictures
2013
6.6
Self – Interviewee
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
6.2
Gentleman
Bright Young Things
2003
0.0
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003
6.8
Self
Forever Ealing
2002
0.0
Self (archive)
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
2002
6.0
Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
0.0
Arthur Rosehip
The Gentleman Thief
2001
0.0
Self
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
0.0
Interviewee
A Profile of In Which We Serve
2000
Credits
Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
2013
5.8
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Self – Interviewee
2010
6.6
Bright Young Things
as Gentleman
2003
6.2
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003
0.0
Forever Ealing
as Self
2002
6.8
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
as Self (archive)
2002
0.0
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self
2001
6.0
The Gentleman Thief
as Arthur Rosehip
2001
0.0
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
as Self
2000
0.0
A Profile of In Which We Serve
as Interviewee
2000
0.0
Cats
as Gus the Theatre Cat
1998
7.3
Parkinson
as Self
1998
0.0
Bean
as Chairman
1997
6.5
Hamlet
as Old King Norway
1996
7.3
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Clive Anderson All Talk
as Self
1996
0.0
The Grotesque
as Sir Edward Cleghorn
1995
5.1
Martin Chuzzlewit
as Mr. Chuffey
1994
8.0
Deadly Advice
as Jack the Ripper
1994
4.2
Frankenstein
as De Lacey
1993
6.6
Harnessing Peacocks
as Bernard Quigley
1993
3.7
The Big Freeze
as Dapper man
1993
6.2
Night of the Fox
as Brig. Dougal Munro
1990
6.0
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Perfect Scoundrels
as Praeger
1990
6.0
A Tale of Two Cities
as Jarvis Lorry
1989
5.0
Around the World in 80 Days
as Faversham
1989
6.7
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Ending Up
as Bernard
1989
0.0
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
as Self (uncredited)
1988
0.0
The Lady and the Highwayman
as Sir Lawrence Dobson
1988
5.1
The Dame Edna Experience
as Self
1987
4.0
Who's That Girl
as Montgomery Bell
1987
5.5
The Best of British Cinema
as Self - Narrator
1987
0.0
Hold the Dream
as Henry Rossiter
1986
2.5
When the Wind Blows
as Jim Bloggs (voice)
1986
7.4
The Wind and the Bomb
1986
7.0
Murder with Mirrors
as Lewis Serrocold
1985
6.5
A Woman of Substance
as Henry Rossiter
1985
7.1
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The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
as Self
1985
6.0
The Masks of Death
as Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator
1984
5.2
Sahara
as Cambridge
1983
5.7
🎬
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
as Self
1983
0.0
Gandhi
as Lord Chelmsford
1982
7.6
Hotel
1982
6.8
Wogan
as Self
1982
4.5
Young at Heart
as Albert Collyer
1980
0.0
Quatermass
as Bernard Quatermass
1979
6.6
The Quatermass Conclusion
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
1979
4.2
Zulu Dawn
as Sir Henry Bartle Frere
1979
6.1
Tales of the Unexpected
as Sam Morrissey
1979
6.7
Tales of the Unexpected
as William Perkins
1979
6.7
Tales of the Unexpected
as The Man
1979
6.7
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Late Night Story
as self
1978
0.0
The Thirty Nine Steps
as Scudder
1978
6.7
Dr. Strange
as Thomas Lindmer
1978
6.0
The Big Sleep
as Inspector Carson
1978
5.9
An Audience with...
as Self
1978
5.3
The Devil's Advocate
as Monsignor Blaise Meredith
1977
6.5
The Love Boat
as Bertram MacDonald
1977
6.3
Trial by Combat
as Colonel Bertie Cook
1976
7.7
The Human Factor
as Mike McAllister
1975
5.7
The Zoo Gang
as Thomas "The Elephant" Devon
1974
7.0
Oklahoma Crude
as Cleon Doyle
1973
6.1
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
Lady Caroline Lamb
as Canning
1972
5.6
Young Winston
as General Kitchner
1972
6.2
Dulcima
as Mr. Parker
1971
7.3
Adam's Woman
as Sir Philip MacDonald
1970
6.9
Ryan's Daughter
as Michael
1970
7.1
Nanny and the Professor
as Uncle Alfred
1970
6.0
Run Wild, Run Free
as The Moorman (Colonel)
1969
6.0
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
1969
6.7
Emma Hamilton
as Lord William Hamilton
1968
4.0
A Black Veil for Lisa
as Inspector Franz Bulon
1968
5.7
Dundee and the Culhane
as Dundee
1967
4.0
Chuka
as Colonel Stuart Valois
1967
6.2
Africa: Texas Style!
as Wing Commander Hayes
1967
0.0
The Family Way
as Ezra Fitton
1966
6.5
The Wrong Box
as Masterman Finsbury
1966
6.5
King Rat
as Smedley-Taylor
1965
7.1
Operation Crossbow
as General Boyd
1965
6.7
The Truth About Spring
as Tommy Tyler
1965
6.7
The Chalk Garden
as Maitland
1964
7.1
The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
1963
6.3
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
Tiara Tahiti
as Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
1962
6.0
The Valiant
as Captain Morgan
1962
7.5
Flame in the Streets
as Jacko Palmer
1961
5.9
The Parent Trap
as Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
1961
7.0
The Singer Not the Song
as Father Michael Keogh
1961
6.3
Swiss Family Robinson
as Father
1960
6.9
Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
1960
0.0
Tunes of Glory
as Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)
1960
7.1
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
as Barney
1959
6.3
Tiger Bay
as Superintendent Graham
1959
7.2
I Was Monty's Double
as Major Harvey
1958
6.9
Ice Cold in Alex
as Captain Anson
1958
7.3
Dunkirk
as Cpl Tubby Binns
1958
6.8
The Vicious Circle
as Dr. Howard Latimer
1957
6.4
Town on Trial
as Supt. Mike Halloran
1957
6.5
It's Great to be Young!
as Dingle
1956
6.2
Around the World in 80 Days
as London Carriage Driver
1956
6.6
War and Peace
as Platon Karataev
1956
6.7
The Baby and the Battleship
as Puncher Roberts
1956
6.0
Escapade
as John Hampden
1955
5.2
Above Us the Waves
as Commandant Fraser
1955
6.1
The End of the Affair
as Albert Parkis
1955
5.7
The Colditz Story
as Pat Reid
1955
6.8
🎬
Producers' Showcase
as Robert Crosbie
1954
6.5
Hobson's Choice
as William Mossop
1954
7.4
The Long Memory
as Phillip Davidson
1953
6.6
The Gentle Gunman
as Terence Sullivan
1952
6.2
The Way to Wimbledon
as Self - Commentator
1952
0.0
Mr. Denning Drives North
as Tom Denning
1951
6.0
Morning Departure
as Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong
1950
6.8
The Rocking Horse Winner
as Bassett
1949
6.5
The History of Mr. Polly
as Alfred Polly
1949
7.4
Scott of the Antarctic
as Captain R.F. Scott R.N.
1948
7.2
The October Man
as Jim Ackland
1947
6.2
So Well Remembered
as George Boswell
1947
5.0
Great Expectations
as Pip
1946
7.3
Land of Promise
as The Voice
1946
0.0
The Way to the Stars
as Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
1945
6.0
Waterloo Road
as Jim Colter
1945
5.9
🎬
Total War in Britain
as Narrator (voice)
1945
10.0
This Happy Breed
as Billy Mitchell
1944
7.2
🎬
Information Please
as British Flyer
1944
0.0
🎬
Victory Wedding
as Bill Clark
1944
0.0
We Dive at Dawn
as Lt. Taylor RN
1943
6.4
🎬
The Sky’s the Limit
as Tom
1943
0.0
The Young Mr. Pitt
as William Wilberforce
1942
5.7
In Which We Serve
as Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake
1942
6.8
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
as Bobby Jessop
1942
7.8
The Big Blockade
as Tom
1942
6.5
Cottage to Let
as Flt·Lieut. Perry
1941
6.6
Old Bill and Son
as Young Bill
1941
6.5
All Hands
as Jack
1940
8.0
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
as Peter Colley as a Young Man
1939
7.4
🎬
Happy Family
as Fred
1939
0.0
The Green Cockatoo
as Jim Connor
1937
5.8
O.H.M.S.
as Cpl. Bert Dawson
1937
3.5
Tudor Rose
as Lord Guilford Dudley
1936
8.1
First Offence
as Johnnie Penrose
1936
0.0
Broadway Gondolier
1935
5.4
Brown on Resolution
as Albert Brown
1935
5.8
Royal Cavalcade
as Young Enlistee
1935
0.0
🎬
Blind Justice
as Ralph Summers
1935
0.0
Car of Dreams
as Robert Miller
1935
5.7
🎬
Charing Cross Road
as Tony
1935
0.0
Doctor's Orders
as Ronnie Blake
1934
6.0
🎬
The Lash
as Arthur Haughton
1934
6.5
A Political Party
as Tony Smithers
1934
0.0
Those Were the Days
as Bobby Poskett
1934
7.5
The Ghost Camera
as Ernest Elton
1933
6.2
🎬
Britannia of Billingsgate
as Fred Bolton
1933
5.5
The Midshipmaid
as Golightly
1932
0.0