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John Mills

Sir John Mills CBE (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills) was a British actor who appeared in more than 100 motion pictures and dozens of stage plays and television programs during a career that spanned some seven decades. On screen he often played people who were not at all exceptional, but become heroes because of their common sense, generosity and good judgment.

Aliases
  • Sir John Mills
  • John Mills C.B.E.
English
Filmography
  • Born In North Elmham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
  • Born February 22, 1908
  • Died April 23, 2005
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Dr. Strange

1978
as Thomas Lindmer

Bean

1997
as Chairman

The Singer Not the Song

1961
as Father Michael Keogh

Britannia of Billingsgate

1933
as Fred Bolton

Gandhi

1982
as Lord Chelmsford

It's Great to be Young!

1956

Town on Trial

1957
as Supt. Mike Halloran

Dulcima

1971
as Mr. Parker

Young Winston

1972
as General Kitchner

The October Man

1947
as Jim Ackland

The Truth About Spring

1965
as Tommy Tyler

Pinewood: 80 Years of Movie Magic

2015
as Pip

Ice Cold in Alex

1958
as Captain Anson

Murder with Mirrors

1985
as Lewis Serrocold

The End of the Affair

1955
as Albert Parkis

Ryan's Daughter

1970
as Michael

The South Bank Show: Noel Coward

1992
as John Mills

Tiger Bay

1959
as Superintendent Graham

When the Wind Blows

1986
as Jim (voice)

The Baby and the Battleship

1957
as Puncher Roberts

The Big Freeze

1993
as Dapper Man

Night of the Fox

1990
as Brig. Dougal Munro

The Gentle Gunman

1952
as Terence Sullivan

Sahara

1983
as Cambridge

Harnessing Peacocks

1993
as Bernard Quigley

The Thirty Nine Steps

1978
as Scudder

Trial by Combat

1976
as Colonel Bertie Cook

Operation Crossbow

1965
as General Boyd

Mr. Denning Drives North

1951
as Tom Denning

The Gentleman Thief

2001
as Arthur Rosehip

Run Wild, Run Free

1969
as The Moorman (Colonel)

We Dive at Dawn

1943
as Lt. Taylor RN

The Lash

1934
as Arthur Haughton

Late Night Story

1978
as Himself - Reader

Morning Departure

1950
as Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong

Around the World in 80 Days

1956
as London Carriage Driver

The Midshipmaid

1932
as Golightly

Hobson's Choice

1954
as Willie Mossop

Charing Cross Road

1935
as Tony

King Rat

1965
as Smedley-Taylor

Africa: Texas Style!

1967
as Wing Commander Hayes

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

1942
as Bobby Jessop

The Colditz Story

1955
as Pat Reid

The Chalk Garden

1964
as Maitland

Martin Chuzzlewit

1994
as Mr. Chuffey

The Lady and the Highwayman

1989
as Sir Lawrence Dobson

Martin Chuzzlewit

1994
as Mr. Chuffey

Tudor Rose

1936
as Lord Guilford Dudley

Martin Chuzzlewit

1994
as Mr. Chuffey

Peace One Day

2004
as John Mills

Martin Chuzzlewit

1994
as Mr. Chuffey

The Wrong Box

1966
as Masterman Finsbury

So Well Remembered

1947
as George Boswell

Lady Caroline Lamb

1972
as Canning

The Family Way

1966
as Ezra Fitton

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1939
as Peter Colley - as a Young Man

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

1959
as Barney

A Black Veil for Lisa

1968
as Inspector Franz Bulon

In Which We Serve

1942
as Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake

Quatermass

1979
as Bernard Quatermass

Oklahoma Crude

1973
as Cleon Doyle

Escapade

1955
as John Hampden

Adam's Woman

1970
as Sir Philip MacDonald

The History of Mr. Polly

1949
as Alfred Polly

Frankenstein

1992
as De Lacey

Chuka

1967
as Colonel Stuart Valois

Bright Young Things

2003

The Valiant

1962
as Captain Morgan

This Happy Breed

1944
as Billy Mitchell

Forever Ealing

2002
as Self - Interviewee

Flame in the Streets

1961
as Jacko Palmer

The Way to the Stars

1945
as Pilot Officer Peter Penrose

I Was Monty's Double

1958
as Major Harvey

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969
as Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig

The Zoo Gang

1974

Broadway Gondolier

1935

The 'Human' Factor

1975
as Mike McAllister

Land of Promise

1946
as The Voice

The Ghost Camera

1933
as Ernest Elton

Brexit: The Movie

2016

Peter Cushing: A One Way Ticket to Hollywood

1989
as Dr.Watson

Waterloo Road

1945
as Jim Colter

Brown on Resolution

1935
as Albert Brown

Swiss Family Robinson

1960
as Father

Dundee and the Culhane

1967
as Dundee

Bombsight Stolen

1941
as Flt·Lieut. Perry

Tiara Tahiti

1962
as Lt. Col. Clifford Southey

Cats

1998
as Gus the Theatrical Cat

Zulu Dawn

1979
as Sir Henry Bartle Frere

Ending Up

1989
as Bernard

The Big Blockade

1942
as Tom

Emma Hamilton

1968
as Lord William Hamilton

Car of Dreams

1935
as Robert Miller

The Long Memory

1953
as Phillip Davidson

Hamlet

1996
as Old King Norway

O.H.M.S.

1937
as Cpl. Bert Dawson

Dunkirk

1958
as Cpl Tubby Bins

Old Bill and Son

1941
as Young Bill Busby

The Green Cockatoo

1937
as Jim Connor

Great Expectations

1946
as Pip

Tunes of Glory

1960
as Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)

The Quatermass Conclusion

1979
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass

War and Peace

1956
as Platon Karataev

The Masks of Death

1984
as Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator

Deadly Advice

1994
as Jack the Ripper

The Vicious Circle

1957
as Dr. Howard Latimer

Rhythm Parade

1942
as Member - The Mills Brothers

Above Us the Waves

1955
as Commandant Fraser

Scott of the Antarctic

1948
as Captain R.F. Scott R.N.

The Big Sleep

1978
as Inspektor Carson

The Young Mr. Pitt

1942
as William Wilberforce

Who's That Girl

1987
as Montgomery Bell

Director

Movie Sky West and Crooked 1965
Movie Female Mercenaries 1983

Producer

Movie Invasion: Planet Earth 2019

Guest Star

Episode Nanny and the Professor
The Human Fly 		1971
Episode Tales of the Unexpected
Galloping Foxley 		1980
Episode Hotel
Changes of Heart 		1986
Episode Tales of the Unexpected
Operation Safecrack 		1982
Episode Hollywood History
World War Two 		1970
Episode The Dame Edna Experience
John Mills, Rudolf Nureyev, Barry Humphries, Cynthia Payne 		1987
Episode Tales of the Unexpected
The Umbrella Man 		1980
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
John Mills 		1981