John Mills
Department: 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.
Known For
Bean
1997
Gandhi
1982
Frankenstein
1993
The Big Sleep
1978
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
When the Wind Blows
1986
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
Murder with Mirrors
1985
War and Peace
1956
The Human Factor
1975
The Green Cockatoo
1937
Cats
1998
Who's That Girl
1987
In Which We Serve
1942
The Masks of Death
1984
The Quatermass Conclusion
1979
Above Us the Waves
1955
King Rat
1965
Operation Crossbow
1965
Great Expectations
1946
The Thirty Nine Steps
1978
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939
Tunes of Glory
1960
Tiger Bay
1959
The Rocking Horse Winner
1949
Scott of the Antarctic
1948
We Dive at Dawn
1943
Mr. Denning Drives North
1951
The Wrong Box
1966
The Way to the Stars
1945
Ice Cold in Alex
1958
Hobson's Choice
1954
Ryan's Daughter
1970
The Colditz Story
1955
Chuka
1967
The Chalk Garden
1964
Young Winston
1972
Morning Departure
1950
Swiss Family Robinson
1960
Dunkirk
1958
The October Man
1947
Sahara
1983
Waterloo Road
1945
Emma Hamilton
1968
The Family Way
1966
This Happy Breed
1944
The Long Memory
1953
Dulcima
1971
Dr. Strange
1978
The Gentle Gunman
1952
Cottage to Let
1941
The History of Mr. Polly
1949
Night of the Fox
1990
The End of the Affair
1955
The Baby and the Battleship
1956
I Was Monty's Double
1958
Trial by Combat
1976
The Lady and the Highwayman
1988
The Singer Not the Song
1961
Run Wild, Run Free
1969
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
1959
Town on Trial
1957
The Vicious Circle
1957
A Black Veil for Lisa
1968
Britannia of Billingsgate
1933
Tiara Tahiti
1962
Royal Cavalcade
1935
Oklahoma Crude
1973
The Valiant
1962
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
1942
The Ghost Camera
1933
The Truth About Spring
1965
Car of Dreams
1935
O.H.M.S.
1937
Escapade
1955
Africa: Texas Style!
1967
Those Were the Days
1934
Forever Ealing
2002
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003
The Big Blockade
1942
The Way to Wimbledon
1952
So Well Remembered
1947
Lady Caroline Lamb
1972
Hamlet
1996
The Big Freeze
1993
Flame in the Streets
1961
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1988
The Devil's Advocate
1977
The Sky’s the Limit
1943
Happy Family
1939
Brown on Resolution
1935
Adam's Woman
1970
Broadway Gondolier
1935
The Grotesque
1995
The Midshipmaid
1932
Tudor Rose
1936
Zulu Dawn
1979
Doctor's Orders
1934
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
1985
Old Bill and Son
1941
A Political Party
1934
Victory Wedding
1944
Bright Young Things
2003
Harnessing Peacocks
1993
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
Ending Up
1989
First Offence
1936
Charing Cross Road
1935
The Parent Trap
1961
The Lash
1934
The Young Mr. Pitt
1942
It's Great to be Young!
1956
A Profile of In Which We Serve
2000
Deadly Advice
1994
Land of Promise
1946
Blind Justice
1935
All Hands
1940
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
Information Please
1944
The Wind and the Bomb
1986
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
1983
Total War in Britain
1945
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
2002
Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
1960
The Gentleman Thief
2001
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Hotel
1982
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Nanny and the Professor
1970
The Zoo Gang
1974
Dundee and the Culhane
1967
A Woman of Substance
1985
Clive Anderson All Talk
1996
Young at Heart
1980
The Best of British Cinema
1987
Perfect Scoundrels
1990
Talking Pictures
2013
The Dame Edna Experience
1987
Around the World in 80 Days
1989
An Audience with...
1978
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Wogan
1982
The Love Boat
1977
Quatermass
1979
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Late Night Story
1978
Parkinson
1998
A Tale of Two Cities
1989
Producers' Showcase
1954
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994
Hold the Dream
1987