John Mills
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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.
Appearances
6.5
Bean
Chairman
7.6
Gandhi
Lord Chelmsford
6.9
Frankenstein
De Lacey
5.9
The Big Sleep
Inspector Carson
7.0
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Self
7.5
When the Wind Blows
Jim Bloggs (voice)
6.7
Oh! What a Lovely War
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
6.5
Murder with Mirrors
Lewis Serrocold
6.6
War and Peace
Platon Karataev
5.8
The Human Factor
Mike McAllister
5.9
The Green Cockatoo
Jim Connor
7.2
Cats
Gus the Theatre Cat
5.5
Who's That Girl
Montgomery Bell
6.8
In Which We Serve
Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake
5.4
The Masks of Death
Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator
4.2
The Quatermass Conclusion
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
6.2
Above Us the Waves
Commandant Fraser
7.1
King Rat
Smedley-Taylor
6.7
Operation Crossbow
General Boyd
7.3
Great Expectations
Pip
7.4
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Peter Colley as a Young Man
6.8
The Thirty Nine Steps
Scudder
7.2
Tunes of Glory
Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)
7.2
Tiger Bay
Superintendent Graham
6.5
The Rocking Horse Winner
Bassett
7.2
Scott of the Antarctic
Captain R.F. Scott R.N.
6.4
We Dive at Dawn
Lt. Taylor RN
6.4
Mr. Denning Drives North
Tom Denning
6.4
The Wrong Box
Masterman Finsbury
6.1
The Way to the Stars
Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
7.3
Ice Cold in Alex
Captain Anson
7.4
Hobson's Choice
William Mossop
7.1
Ryan's Daughter
Michael
6.8
The Colditz Story
Pat Reid
6.3
Chuka
Colonel Stuart Valois
7.2
The Chalk Garden
Maitland
6.2
Young Winston
General Kitchner
6.9
Morning Departure
Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong
6.9
Swiss Family Robinson
Father
6.8
Dunkirk
Cpl Tubby Binns
6.2
The October Man
Jim Ackland
5.7
Sahara
Cambridge
6.1
Waterloo Road
Jim Colter
4.4
Emma Hamilton
Lord William Hamilton
6.7
The Family Way
Ezra Fitton
7.1
This Happy Breed
Billy Mitchell
6.7
The Long Memory
Phillip Davidson
7.3
Dulcima
Mr. Parker
6.0
Dr. Strange
Thomas Lindmer
6.5
The Gentle Gunman
Terence Sullivan
6.7
Cottage to Let
Flt·Lieut. Perry
7.6
The History of Mr. Polly
Alfred Polly
6.3
Night of the Fox
Brig. Dougal Munro
5.8
The End of the Affair
Albert Parkis
6.4
The Baby and the Battleship
Puncher Roberts
6.9
I Was Monty's Double
Major Harvey
7.8
Trial by Combat
Colonel Bertie Cook
5.1
The Lady and the Highwayman
Sir Lawrence Dobson
6.4
The Singer Not the Song
Father Michael Keogh
6.3
Run Wild, Run Free
The Moorman (Colonel)
6.8
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Barney
6.5
Town on Trial
Supt. Mike Halloran
6.5
The Vicious Circle
Dr. Howard Latimer
5.8
A Black Veil for Lisa
Inspector Franz Bulon
Britannia of Billingsgate
7.0
Britannia of Billingsgate
Fred Bolton
6.2
Tiara Tahiti
Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
8.0
Royal Cavalcade
Young Enlistee
6.1
Oklahoma Crude
Cleon Doyle
8.3
The Valiant
Captain Morgan
8.2
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Bobby Jessop
6.3
The Ghost Camera
Ernest Elton
6.9
The Truth About Spring
Tommy Tyler
6.1
Car of Dreams
Robert Miller
4.7
O.H.M.S.
Cpl. Bert Dawson
5.6
Escapade
John Hampden
9.0
Africa: Texas Style!
Wing Commander Hayes
8.3
Those Were the Days
Bobby Poskett
7.2
Forever Ealing
Self
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
6.7
The Big Blockade
Tom
The Way to Wimbledon
Self - Commentator
5.0
So Well Remembered
George Boswell
5.9
Lady Caroline Lamb
Canning
7.3
Hamlet
Old King Norway
6.7
The Big Freeze
Dapper man
6.3
Flame in the Streets
Jacko Palmer
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Self (uncredited)
7.3
The Devil's Advocate
Monsignor Blaise Meredith
The Sky’s the Limit
The Sky’s the Limit
Tom
Happy Family
Happy Family
Fred
6.3
Brown on Resolution
Albert Brown
6.9
Adam's Woman
Sir Philip MacDonald
6.0
Broadway Gondolier
5.4
The Grotesque
Sir Edward Cleghorn
7.0
The Midshipmaid
Golightly
8.1
Tudor Rose
Lord Guilford Dudley
6.1
Zulu Dawn
Sir Henry Bartle Frere
6.5
Doctor's Orders
Ronnie Blake
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
8.0
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Self
6.6
Old Bill and Son
Young Bill
9.0
A Political Party
Tony Smithers
Victory Wedding
8.0
Victory Wedding
Bill Clark
6.3
Bright Young Things
Gentleman
5.0
Harnessing Peacocks
Bernard Quigley
6.7
Around the World in 80 Days
London Carriage Driver
Ending Up
0.0
Ending Up
Bernard
8.0
First Offence
Johnnie Penrose
Charing Cross Road
7.0
Charing Cross Road
Tony
7.0
The Parent Trap
Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
The Lash
7.0
The Lash
Arthur Haughton
6.2
The Young Mr. Pitt
William Wilberforce
6.8
It's Great to be Young!
Dingle
A Profile of In Which We Serve
Interviewee
4.7
Deadly Advice
Jack the Ripper
8.0
Land of Promise
The Voice
Blind Justice
7.0
Blind Justice
Ralph Summers
8.0
All Hands
Jack
6.6
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Self – Interviewee
Information Please
Information Please
British Flyer
8.5
The Wind and the Bomb
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
Self
Total War in Britain
8.5
Total War in Britain
Narrator (voice)
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
Self (archive)
Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
The Gentleman Thief
Arthur Rosehip
6.1
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self
6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
Sam Morrissey
6.8
Hotel
6.6
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
6.4
Nanny and the Professor
Uncle Alfred
7.8
The Zoo Gang
Thomas "The Elephant" Devon
5.3
Dundee and the Culhane
Dundee
7.6
A Woman of Substance
Henry Rossiter
Clive Anderson All Talk
7.5
Clive Anderson All Talk
Self
Young at Heart
Albert Collyer
8.0
The Best of British Cinema
Self - Narrator
6.0
Perfect Scoundrels
Praeger
6.2
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
5.0
The Dame Edna Experience
Self
6.7
Around the World in 80 Days
Faversham
5.3
An Audience with...
Self
6.3
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
5.3
Wogan
Self
6.3
The Love Boat
Bertram MacDonald
6.8
Quatermass
Bernard Quatermass
7.0
The Danny Kaye Show
Self
6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
William Perkins
6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
The Man
Late Night Story
Late Night Story
self
Parkinson
Self
5.7
A Tale of Two Cities
Jarvis Lorry
Producers' Showcase
6.8
Producers' Showcase
Robert Crosbie
8.4
Martin Chuzzlewit
Mr Chuffey
4.4
Hold the Dream
Henry Rossiter