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