
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
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

The Best of British Cinema

Martin Chuzzlewit

The Zoo Gang

Dundee and the Culhane

Perfect Scoundrels

Quatermass

A Tale of Two Cities

Hold the Dream

Young at Heart
More Movies

The Thirty Nine Steps

Oh! What a Lovely War

This Happy Breed

The Lady and the Highwayman

Bright Young Things

The Colditz Story

Ice Cold in Alex

The Wrong Box

Dr. Strange

King Rat

Hobson's Choice

Scott of the Antarctic

The Big Sleep

A Black Veil for Lisa

Above Us the Waves

The Singer Not the Song

Young Winston

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Oklahoma Crude

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Murder with Mirrors

Brown on Resolution

The End of the Affair

The Masks of Death

The Truth About Spring

Tiger Bay

Emma Hamilton

Mr. Denning Drives North

Forever Ealing

The Baby and the Battleship

Tunes of Glory

We Dive at Dawn

The Chalk Garden

Lady Caroline Lamb

The Human Factor

The Way to the Stars

Night of the Fox

Trial by Combat

Tiara Tahiti

Waterloo Road

The Grotesque

The Family Way

The Long Memory

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

The Young Mr. Pitt

The Vicious Circle

Dulcima

The Way to Wimbledon

Morning Departure

Tudor Rose

It's Great to be Young!

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

Flame in the Streets

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

The History of Mr. Polly

The Gentle Gunman

Broadway Gondolier

Deadly Advice

The October Man

Frankenstein

Escape to Paradise/Water Birds

The Ghost Camera

The Quatermass Conclusion

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

The Rocking Horse Winner

Town on Trial

The Green Cockatoo

The Big Freeze

So Well Remembered

The Gentleman Thief

The Valiant

O.H.M.S.

Cottage to Let

One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage

Old Bill and Son

The Devil's Advocate

Doctor's Orders

A Profile of In Which We Serve

First Offence

Royal Cavalcade

Adam's Woman

The Midshipmaid

The Wind and the Bomb

Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making

Car of Dreams

Those Were the Days

Harnessing Peacocks

The Big Blockade

Britannia of Billingsgate

A Political Party

Land of Promise


























