Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

154

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-02-22

Deathday

2005-04-23 (97 years old)

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

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

6.5%

Bean

Jul 3, 1997

7.6%

Gandhi

Dec 1, 1982

6.7%

Around the World in Eighty Days

Oct 17, 1956

7.3%

Hamlet

Dec 25, 1996

7.0%

The Parent Trap

May 13, 1961

7.3%

Great Expectations

Dec 26, 1946

6.9%

Swiss Family Robinson

Dec 21, 1960

7.4%

When the Wind Blows

Oct 24, 1986

6.7%

War and Peace

Aug 21, 1956

5.5%

Who's That Girl

Aug 7, 1987

6.3%

The Love Boat

Sep 24, 1977

7.3%

Cats

Oct 5, 1998

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Acting

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The Best of British Cinema

2013

Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)

2010

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Self – Interviewee

2003		Bright Young Things as Gentleman
2003		The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

2002		Forever Ealing as Self
2002		Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making as Self (archive)

2001		Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self
2001		The Gentleman Thief as Arthur Rosehip

2000		Sir John Mills' Moving Memories as Self
2000		A Profile of In Which We Serve as Interviewee

1998		Cats as Gus the Theatre Cat
1998		Parkinson as Self

1997

Bean as Chairman

1996		Hamlet as Old King Norway
1996		Clive Anderson All Talk as Self

1995

The Grotesque as Sir Edward Cleghorn

1994		Martin Chuzzlewit as Mr. Chuffey
1994		Deadly Advice as Jack the Ripper

1993		Frankenstein as De Lacey
1993		Harnessing Peacocks as Bernard Quigley
1993		The Big Freeze as Dapper man

1992

The South Bank Show: Noël Coward as Self

1990		Night of the Fox as Brig. Dougal Munro
1990		Perfect Scoundrels as Praeger

1989		A Tale of Two Cities as Jarvis Lorry
1989		Around the World in 80 Days as Faversham
1989		Ending Up as Bernard

1988		One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage as Self (uncredited)
1988		The Lady and the Highwayman as Sir Lawrence Dobson

1987		The Dame Edna Experience as Self
1987		Who's That Girl as Montgomery Bell

1986		Hold the Dream as Henry Rossiter
1986		When the Wind Blows as Jim Bloggs (voice)
1986		The Wind and the Bomb

1985		Murder with Mirrors as Lewis Serrocold
1985		A Woman of Substance as Henry Rossiter
1985		The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio as Self

1984

The Masks of Death as Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator

1983		Sahara as Cambridge
1983		Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi as Self

1982		Gandhi as Lord Chelmsford
1982		Hotel
1982		Wogan as Self

1980

Young at Heart as Albert Collyer

1979		Quatermass as Bernard Quatermass
1979		The Quatermass Conclusion as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
1979		Zulu Dawn as Sir Henry Bartle Frere
1979		Tales of the Unexpected as Sam Morrissey
1979		Tales of the Unexpected as William Perkins
1979		Tales of the Unexpected as The Man

1978		Late Night Story as self
1978		The Thirty Nine Steps as Scudder
1978		Dr. Strange as Thomas Lindmer
1978		The Big Sleep as Inspector Carson
1978		An Audience with... as Self

1977		The Devil's Advocate as Monsignor Blaise Meredith
1977		The Love Boat as Bertram MacDonald

1976

Trial by Combat as Colonel Bertie Cook

1975

The Human Factor as Mike McAllister

1974

The Zoo Gang as Thomas "The Elephant" Devon

1973		Oklahoma Crude as Cleon Doyle
1973		The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self

1972		Lady Caroline Lamb as Canning
1972		Young Winston as General Kitchner

1971

Dulcima as Mr. Parker

1970		Ryan's Daughter as Michael
1970		Adam's Woman as Sir Philip MacDonald
1970		Nanny and the Professor as Uncle Alfred

1969		Run Wild, Run Free as The Moorman (Colonel)
1969		Oh! What a Lovely War as Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig

1968		Emma Hamilton as Lord William Hamilton
1968		A Black Veil for Lisa as Inspector Franz Bulon

1967		Dundee and the Culhane as Dundee
1967		Chuka as Colonel Stuart Valois
1967		Africa: Texas Style! as Wing Commander Hayes

1966		The Family Way as Ezra Fitton
1966		The Wrong Box as Masterman Finsbury

1965		King Rat as Smedley-Taylor
1965		Operation Crossbow as General Boyd
1965		The Truth About Spring as Tommy Tyler

1964

The Chalk Garden as Maitland

1963

The Danny Kaye Show as Self

1962		The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1962		Tiara Tahiti as Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
1962		The Valiant as Captain Morgan

1961		Flame in the Streets as Jacko Palmer
1961		The Parent Trap as Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
1961		The Singer Not the Song as Father Michael Keogh

1960		Swiss Family Robinson as Father
1960		Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
1960		Tunes of Glory as Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)

1959		Summer of the Seventeenth Doll as Barney
1959		Tiger Bay as Superintendent Graham

1958		I Was Monty's Double as Major Harvey
1958		Ice Cold in Alex as Captain Anson
1958		Dunkirk as Cpl Tubby Binns

1957		The Vicious Circle as Dr. Howard Latimer
1957		Town on Trial as Supt. Mike Halloran

1956		It's Great to be Young! as Dingle
1956		Around the World in Eighty Days as London Carriage Driver
1956		War and Peace as Platon Karataev
1956		The Baby and the Battleship as Puncher Roberts

1955		Escapade as John Hampden
1955		Above Us the Waves as Commandant Fraser
1955		The End of the Affair as Albert Parkis
1955		The Colditz Story as Pat Reid

1954

Hobson's Choice as William Mossop

1953

The Long Memory as Phillip Davidson

1952		The Gentle Gunman as Terence Sullivan
1952		The Way to Wimbledon as Self - Commentator

1951

Mr. Denning Drives North as Tom Denning

1950

Morning Departure as Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong

1949		The Rocking Horse Winner as Bassett
1949		The History of Mr. Polly as Alfred Polly

1948

Scott of the Antarctic as Captain R.F. Scott R.N.

1947		The October Man as Jim Ackland
1947		So Well Remembered as George Boswell

1946		Great Expectations as Pip
1946		Land of Promise as The Voice

1945		The Way to the Stars as Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
1945		Waterloo Road as Jim Colter
1945		Total War in Britain as Narrator (voice)

1944		This Happy Breed as Billy Mitchell
1944		Information Please as British Flyer
1944		Victory Wedding as Bill Clark

1943		We Dive at Dawn as Lt. Taylor RN
1943		The Sky’s the Limit as Tom

1942		The Young Mr. Pitt as William Wilberforce
1942		In Which We Serve as Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake
1942		The Black Sheep of Whitehall as Bobby Jessop
1942		The Big Blockade as Tom

1941		Cottage to Let as Flt·Lieut. Perry
1941		Old Bill and Son as Young Bill

1940

All Hands as Jack

1939		Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Peter Colley as a Young Man
1939		Happy Family as Fred

1937		The Green Cockatoo as Jim Connor
1937		O.H.M.S. as Cpl. Bert Dawson

1936		Tudor Rose as Lord Guilford Dudley
1936		First Offence as Johnnie Penrose

1935		Broadway Gondolier
1935		Brown on Resolution as Albert Brown
1935		Royal Cavalcade as Young Enlistee
1935		Blind Justice as Ralph Summers
1935		Car of Dreams as Robert Miller
1935		Charing Cross Road as Tony

1934		Doctor's Orders as Ronnie Blake
1934		The Lash as Arthur Haughton
1934		A Political Party as Tony Smithers
1934		Those Were the Days as Bobby Poskett

1933		The Ghost Camera as Ernest Elton
1933		Britannia of Billingsgate as Fred Bolton

1932

The Midshipmaid as Golightly

Creator

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The Best of British Cinema as Creator

Directing

1965

Sky West and Crooked as Director

Production

1949

The Rocking Horse Winner as Producer