John Mills
Acting
- Born:
- 1908-02-22
- Died:
- 2005-04-23
- Place of birth:
- The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK
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
Filmography
Talking Pictures
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Bright Young Things
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
Forever Ealing
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
The Gentleman Thief
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
A Profile of In Which We Serve
Cats
Parkinson
Bean
Hamlet
Clive Anderson All Talk
The Grotesque
Martin Chuzzlewit
Deadly Advice
Frankenstein
Harnessing Peacocks
The Big Freeze
Night of the Fox
Perfect Scoundrels
A Tale of Two Cities
Around the World in 80 Days
Ending Up
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
The Lady and the Highwayman
The Dame Edna Experience
Who's That Girl
Hold the Dream
The Best of British Cinema
When the Wind Blows
The Wind and the Bomb
Murder with Mirrors
A Woman of Substance
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
The Masks of Death
Sahara
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
Gandhi
Hotel
Wogan
Young at Heart
The Quatermass Conclusion
Quatermass
Zulu Dawn
Tales of the Unexpected
Late Night Story
The Thirty Nine Steps
Dr. Strange
The Big Sleep
The South Bank Show
An Audience with...
The Devil's Advocate
The Love Boat
Trial by Combat
The Human Factor
The Zoo Gang
Oklahoma Crude
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Lady Caroline Lamb
Young Winston
Dulcima
Ryan's Daughter
Adam's Woman
Nanny and the Professor
Run Wild, Run Free
Oh! What a Lovely War
Emma Hamilton
A Black Veil for Lisa
Dundee and the Culhane
Chuka
Africa: Texas Style!
The Family Way
The Wrong Box
King Rat
Operation Crossbow
The Truth About Spring
The Chalk Garden
The Danny Kaye Show
The Merv Griffin Show
Tiara Tahiti
The Valiant
Flame in the Streets
The Parent Trap
The Singer Not the Song
Swiss Family Robinson
Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
Tunes of Glory
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Tiger Bay
I Was Monty's Double
Ice Cold in Alex
Dunkirk
The Vicious Circle
Town on Trial
It's Great to be Young!
Around the World in 80 Days
The Letter
War and Peace
The Baby and the Battleship
Escapade
Above Us the Waves
The End of the Affair
The Colditz Story
Producers' Showcase
Hobson's Choice
The Long Memory
The Gentle Gunman
The Way to Wimbledon
Mr. Denning Drives North
Morning Departure
The Rocking Horse Winner
The History of Mr. Polly
Scott of the Antarctic
The October Man
So Well Remembered
Great Expectations
Land of Promise
The Way to the Stars
Waterloo Road
Total War in Britain
This Happy Breed
Information Please
Victory Wedding
We Dive at Dawn
The Sky’s the Limit
The Young Mr. Pitt
In Which We Serve
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
The Big Blockade
Cottage to Let
Old Bill and Son
All Hands
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Happy Family
The Green Cockatoo
O.H.M.S.
Tudor Rose
First Offence
Broadway Gondolier
Brown on Resolution
Royal Cavalcade
Blind Justice
Car of Dreams
Charing Cross Road
Doctor's Orders
The Lash
A Political Party
Those Were the Days
The Ghost Camera
Britannia of Billingsgate
The Midshipmaid