John Mills
Birthday
1908/02/22
Day of death
2005/04/23 (97 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK
Also know as
Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, Sir John Mills, Sir John Mills, CBE, Johnny Mills, Джон Миллз
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
(2000) Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
as Self
(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
(1946) Great Expectations
as Pip
(1939) Goodbye, Mr. Chips
as Peter Colley as a Young Man
(1978) The Thirty Nine Steps
as Scudder
(1960) Tunes of Glory
as Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)
(1959) Tiger Bay
as Superintendent Graham
(1949) The Rocking Horse Winner
as Bassett
(1948) Scott of the Antarctic
as Captain R.F. Scott R.N.
(1943) We Dive at Dawn
as Lt. Taylor RN
(1951) Mr. Denning Drives North
as Tom Denning
(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) The Colditz Story
as Pat Reid
(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
(1960) Swiss Family Robinson
as Father
(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) The History of Mr. Polly
as Alfred Polly
(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)
(1959) Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
as Barney
(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) Britannia of Billingsgate
as Fred Bolton
(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) The Black Sheep of Whitehall
as Bobby Jessop
(1933) The Ghost Camera
as Ernest Elton
(1965) The Truth About Spring
as Tommy Tyler
(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) Forever Ealing
as Self
(2003) The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
as ---
(1942) The Big Blockade
as Tom
(1952) The Way to Wimbledon
as Self - Commentator
(1947) So Well Remembered
as George Boswell
(1972) Lady Caroline Lamb
as Canning
(1996) Hamlet
as Old King Norway
(1993) The Big Freeze
as Dapper man
(1961) Flame in the Streets
as Jacko Palmer
(1988) One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
as Self (uncredited)
(1977) The Devil's Advocate
as Monsignor Blaise Meredith
(1943) The Sky’s the Limit
as Tom
(1939) Happy Family
as Fred
(1935) Brown on Resolution
as Albert Brown
(1970) Adam's Woman
as Sir Philip MacDonald
(1935) Broadway Gondolier
as ---
(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
(1985) The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
as Self
(1992) The South Bank Show: Noël Coward
as Self
(1941) Old Bill and Son
as Young Bill
(1934) A Political Party
as Tony Smithers
(1944) Victory Wedding
as Bill Clark
(2003) Bright Young Things
as Gentleman
(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
(1935) Charing Cross Road
as Tony
(1961) The Parent Trap
as Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
(1934) The Lash
as Arthur Haughton
(1942) The Young Mr. Pitt
as William Wilberforce
(1956) It's Great to be Young!
as Dingle
(2000) A Profile of In Which We Serve
as Interviewee
(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
(2010) Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Self – Interviewee
(1944) Information Please
as British Flyer
(1986) The Wind and the Bomb
as ---
(1983) Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
as Self
(1945) Total War in Britain
as Narrator (voice)
(2002) Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
as Self (archive)
(1960) Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
as ---
(2001) Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self
(1979) Tales of the Unexpected
as Sam Morrissey
(1982) Hotel
as ---
(1962) The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
(1970) Nanny and the Professor
as Uncle Alfred
(1974) The Zoo Gang
as Thomas "The Elephant" Devon
(1967) Dundee and the Culhane
as Dundee
(1985) A Woman of Substance
as Henry Rossiter
(1996) Clive Anderson All Talk
as Self
(1980) Young at Heart
as Albert Collyer
The Best of British Cinema
as ---
(1990) Perfect Scoundrels
as Praeger
(2013) Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
(1987) The Dame Edna Experience
as Self
(1986) Hold the Dream
as Henry Rossiter
(1989) Around the World in 80 Days
as Faversham
(1978) An Audience with...
as Self
(1973) The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
(1982) Wogan
as Self
(1989) A Tale of Two Cities
as Jarvis Lorry
(1994) Martin Chuzzlewit
as Mr. Chuffey
(1977) The Love Boat
as Bertram MacDonald
(1979) Quatermass
as Bernard Quatermass
(1963) The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
(1979) Tales of the Unexpected
as William Perkins
(1979) Tales of the Unexpected
as The Man
(1978) Late Night Story
as self
(1998) Parkinson
as Self