
John Mills
Born February 22, 1908 · The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Gandhi

Bean

Around the World in 80 Days

Great Expectations

The Parent Trap

Sahara

War and Peace

Hamlet

Who's That Girl

I Was Monty's Double

Escapade

Cats

When the Wind Blows

Run Wild, Run Free

Swiss Family Robinson

Operation Crossbow

Ryan's Daughter

Africa: Texas Style!

Oh! What a Lovely War

Zulu Dawn

Dunkirk

Ice Cold in Alex
TV Shows

Hotel

Tales of the Unexpected

Parkinson

An Audience with...

The Danny Kaye Show

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

The BAFTA Awards

Nanny and the Professor

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Talking Pictures

A Woman of Substance

The Dame Edna Experience

Around the World in 80 Days

Martin Chuzzlewit

The Best of British Cinema

The Zoo Gang

Perfect Scoundrels

Dundee and the Culhane

Quatermass

Hold the Dream

A Tale of Two Cities

Young at Heart
More Movies

The Big Sleep

In Which We Serve

King Rat

Hobson's Choice

Above Us the Waves

The Wrong Box

The Thirty Nine Steps

The Colditz Story

Dr. Strange

The Lady and the Highwayman

Chuka

Scott of the Antarctic

Bright Young Things

This Happy Breed

Emma Hamilton

The End of the Affair

The Masks of Death

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Young Winston

Brown on Resolution

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

A Black Veil for Lisa

Forever Ealing

Murder with Mirrors

The Way to the Stars

The Truth About Spring

Oklahoma Crude

Night of the Fox

Tiger Bay

Tunes of Glory

The Singer Not the Song

The Baby and the Battleship

The Young Mr. Pitt

Mr. Denning Drives North

Trial by Combat

We Dive at Dawn

The Family Way

Lady Caroline Lamb

The Vicious Circle

The Chalk Garden

The Human Factor

Tiara Tahiti

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

The Way to Wimbledon

Flame in the Streets

The Ghost Camera

The Long Memory

Morning Departure

Dulcima

The Gentle Gunman

It's Great to be Young!

The Grotesque

Town on Trial

The Big Freeze

Deadly Advice

One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage

Waterloo Road

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

Frankenstein

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

The Green Cockatoo

The History of Mr. Polly

Broadway Gondolier

The Big Blockade

So Well Remembered

The Devil's Advocate

Harnessing Peacocks

Royal Cavalcade

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making

Those Were the Days

Tudor Rose

The Quatermass Conclusion

O.H.M.S.

Old Bill and Son

Escape to Paradise/Water Birds

Cottage to Let

The Rocking Horse Winner

The Midshipmaid

The October Man

The Valiant

A Profile of In Which We Serve

First Offence

The Gentleman Thief

Adam's Woman

Doctor's Orders

The Wind and the Bomb

Car of Dreams

Britannia of Billingsgate

Land of Promise

A Political Party




