John Mills
Acting • Born 1908-02-22 – Died 2005-04-23
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.
Filmography
154 credits
Bean
Movie • 1997
Chairman
Gandhi
Movie • 1982
Lord Chelmsford
Frankenstein
Movie • 1993
De Lacey
The Big Sleep
Movie • 1978
Inspector Carson
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Movie • 2000
Self
When the Wind Blows
Movie • 1986
Jim Bloggs (voice)
Oh! What a Lovely War
Movie • 1969
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
Murder with Mirrors
Movie • 1985
Lewis Serrocold
War and Peace
Movie • 1956
Platon Karataev
The Human Factor
Movie • 1975
Mike McAllister
The Green Cockatoo
Movie • 1937
Jim Connor
Cats
Movie • 1998
Gus the Theatre Cat
Who's That Girl
Movie • 1987
Montgomery Bell
In Which We Serve
Movie • 1942
Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake
The Masks of Death
Movie • 1984
Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator
The Quatermass Conclusion
Movie • 1979
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Above Us the Waves
Movie • 1955
Commandant Fraser
King Rat
Movie • 1965
Smedley-Taylor
Operation Crossbow
Movie • 1965
General Boyd
Great Expectations
Movie • 1946
Pip
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Movie • 1939
Peter Colley as a Young Man
The Thirty Nine Steps
Movie • 1978
Scudder
Tunes of Glory
Movie • 1960
Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)
Tiger Bay
Movie • 1959
Superintendent Graham
The Rocking Horse Winner
Movie • 1949
Bassett
Scott of the Antarctic
Movie • 1948
Captain R.F. Scott R.N.
We Dive at Dawn
Movie • 1943
Lt. Taylor RN
Mr. Denning Drives North
Movie • 1951
Tom Denning
The Wrong Box
Movie • 1966
Masterman Finsbury
The Way to the Stars
Movie • 1945
Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
Ice Cold in Alex
Movie • 1958
Captain Anson
Hobson's Choice
Movie • 1954
William Mossop
Ryan's Daughter
Movie • 1970
Michael
The Colditz Story
Movie • 1955
Pat Reid
Chuka
Movie • 1967
Colonel Stuart Valois
The Chalk Garden
Movie • 1964
Maitland
Young Winston
Movie • 1972
General Kitchner
Morning Departure
Movie • 1950
Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong
Swiss Family Robinson
Movie • 1960
Father
Dunkirk
Movie • 1958
Cpl Tubby Binns
The October Man
Movie • 1947
Jim Ackland
Sahara
Movie • 1983
Cambridge
Waterloo Road
Movie • 1945
Jim Colter
Emma Hamilton
Movie • 1968
Lord William Hamilton
The Family Way
Movie • 1966
Ezra Fitton
This Happy Breed
Movie • 1944
Billy Mitchell
The Long Memory
Movie • 1953
Phillip Davidson
Dulcima
Movie • 1971
Mr. Parker
Dr. Strange
Movie • 1978
Thomas Lindmer
The Gentle Gunman
Movie • 1952
Terence Sullivan
Cottage to Let
Movie • 1941
Flt·Lieut. Perry
The History of Mr. Polly
Movie • 1949
Alfred Polly
Night of the Fox
Movie • 1990
Brig. Dougal Munro
The End of the Affair
Movie • 1955
Albert Parkis
The Baby and the Battleship
Movie • 1956
Puncher Roberts
I Was Monty's Double
Movie • 1958
Major Harvey
Trial by Combat
Movie • 1976
Colonel Bertie Cook
The Lady and the Highwayman
Movie • 1988
Sir Lawrence Dobson
The Singer Not the Song
Movie • 1961
Father Michael Keogh
Run Wild, Run Free
Movie • 1969
The Moorman (Colonel)
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Movie • 1959
Barney
Town on Trial
Movie • 1957
Supt. Mike Halloran
The Vicious Circle
Movie • 1957
Dr. Howard Latimer
A Black Veil for Lisa
Movie • 1968
Inspector Franz Bulon
Britannia of Billingsgate
Movie • 1933
Fred Bolton
Tiara Tahiti
Movie • 1962
Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
Royal Cavalcade
Movie • 1935
Young Enlistee
Oklahoma Crude
Movie • 1973
Cleon Doyle
The Valiant
Movie • 1962
Captain Morgan
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Movie • 1942
Bobby Jessop
The Ghost Camera
Movie • 1933
Ernest Elton
The Truth About Spring
Movie • 1965
Tommy Tyler
Car of Dreams
Movie • 1935
Robert Miller
O.H.M.S.
Movie • 1937
Cpl. Bert Dawson
Escapade
Movie • 1955
John Hampden
Africa: Texas Style!
Movie • 1967
Wing Commander Hayes
Those Were the Days
Movie • 1934
Bobby Poskett
Forever Ealing
Movie • 2002
Self
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
Movie • 2003
The Big Blockade
Movie • 1942
Tom
The Way to Wimbledon
Movie • 1952
Self - Commentator
So Well Remembered
Movie • 1947
George Boswell
Lady Caroline Lamb
Movie • 1972
Canning
Hamlet
Movie • 1996
Old King Norway
The Big Freeze
Movie • 1993
Dapper man
Flame in the Streets
Movie • 1961
Jacko Palmer
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Movie • 1988
Self (uncredited)
The Devil's Advocate
Movie • 1977
Monsignor Blaise Meredith
The Sky’s the Limit
Movie • 1943
Tom
Happy Family
Movie • 1939
Fred
Brown on Resolution
Movie • 1935
Albert Brown
Adam's Woman
Movie • 1970
Sir Philip MacDonald
Broadway Gondolier
Movie • 1935
The Grotesque
Movie • 1995
Sir Edward Cleghorn
The Midshipmaid
Movie • 1932
Golightly
Tudor Rose
Movie • 1936
Lord Guilford Dudley
Zulu Dawn
Movie • 1979
Sir Henry Bartle Frere
Doctor's Orders
Movie • 1934
Ronnie Blake
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Movie • 1985
Self
Old Bill and Son
Movie • 1941
Young Bill
A Political Party
Movie • 1934
Tony Smithers
Victory Wedding
Movie • 1944
Bill Clark
Bright Young Things
Movie • 2003
Gentleman
Harnessing Peacocks
Movie • 1993
Bernard Quigley
Around the World in 80 Days
Movie • 1956
London Carriage Driver
Ending Up
Movie • 1989
Bernard
First Offence
Movie • 1936
Johnnie Penrose
Charing Cross Road
Movie • 1935
Tony
The Parent Trap
Movie • 1961
Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
The Lash
Movie • 1934
Arthur Haughton
The Young Mr. Pitt
Movie • 1942
William Wilberforce
It's Great to be Young!
Movie • 1956
Dingle
A Profile of In Which We Serve
Movie • 2000
Interviewee
Deadly Advice
Movie • 1994
Jack the Ripper
Land of Promise
Movie • 1946
The Voice
Blind Justice
Movie • 1935
Ralph Summers
All Hands
Movie • 1940
Jack
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Movie • 2010
Self – Interviewee
Information Please
Movie • 1944
British Flyer
The Wind and the Bomb
Movie • 1986
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
Movie • 1983
Self
Total War in Britain
Movie • 1945
Narrator (voice)
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
Movie • 2002
Self (archive)
Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
Movie • 1960
The Gentleman Thief
Movie • 2001
Arthur Rosehip
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV • 2001
Self
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Sam Morrissey
Hotel
TV • 1982
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
Nanny and the Professor
TV • 1970
Uncle Alfred
The Zoo Gang
TV • 1974
Thomas "The Elephant" Devon
Dundee and the Culhane
TV • 1967
Dundee
A Woman of Substance
TV • 1985
Henry Rossiter
Clive Anderson All Talk
TV • 1996
Self
Young at Heart
TV • 1980
Albert Collyer
The Best of British Cinema
TV • 1987
Self - Narrator
Perfect Scoundrels
TV • 1990
Praeger
Talking Pictures
TV • 2013
Self (archive footage)
The Dame Edna Experience
TV • 1987
Self
Around the World in 80 Days
TV • 1989
Faversham
An Audience with...
TV • 1978
Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Bertram MacDonald
Quatermass
TV • 1979
Bernard Quatermass
The Danny Kaye Show
TV • 1963
Self
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
William Perkins
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
The Man
Late Night Story
TV • 1978
self
Parkinson
TV • 1998
Self
A Tale of Two Cities
TV • 1989
Jarvis Lorry
Producers' Showcase
TV • 1954
Robert Crosbie
Martin Chuzzlewit
TV • 1994
Mr Chuffey
Hold the Dream
TV • 1987
Henry Rossiter