John Mills
Acting
Born: February 22, 1908 · The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK
Died: April 23, 2005 (aged 97)
Highest Rated
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
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
Hamlet
1996
The Parent Trap
1961
Great Expectations
1946
Swiss Family Robinson
1960
When the Wind Blows
1986
War and Peace
1956
Who's That Girl
1987
The Love Boat
1977
Cats
1998
Photos (3)
Movies (107)
Who's That Girl
Montgomery Bell
The Parent Trap
Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
Bean
Chairman
Around the World in 80 Days
London Carriage Driver
Gandhi
Lord Chelmsford
War and Peace
Platon Karataev
Great Expectations
Pip
Swiss Family Robinson
Father
Sahara
Cambridge
Hamlet
Old King Norway
When the Wind Blows
Jim Bloggs (voice)
Cats
Gus the Theatre Cat
The Chalk Garden
Maitland
The Big Sleep
Inspector Carson
Chuka
Colonel Stuart Valois
Operation Crossbow
General Boyd
Ryan's Daughter
Michael
Hobson's Choice
William Mossop
Dr. Strange
Thomas Lindmer
Brown on Resolution
Albert Brown
Zulu Dawn
Sir Henry Bartle Frere
King Rat
Smedley-Taylor
Ice Cold in Alex
Captain Anson
Oh! What a Lovely War
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
The Wrong Box
Masterman Finsbury
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Peter Colley as a Young Man
In Which We Serve
Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake
Young Winston
General Kitchner
Oklahoma Crude
Cleon Doyle
Murder with Mirrors
Lewis Serrocold
The Lady and the Highwayman
Sir Lawrence Dobson
Bright Young Things
Gentleman
Run Wild, Run Free
The Moorman (Colonel)
This Happy Breed
Billy Mitchell
The Colditz Story
Pat Reid
Tunes of Glory
Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)
Tiger Bay
Superintendent Graham
The Thirty Nine Steps
Scudder
Dunkirk
Cpl Tubby Binns
Tiara Tahiti
Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
The Grotesque
Sir Edward Cleghorn
Above Us the Waves
Commandant Fraser
I Was Monty's Double
Major Harvey
Flame in the Streets
Jacko Palmer
A Black Veil for Lisa
Inspector Franz Bulon
Scott of the Antarctic
Captain R.F. Scott R.N.
The Family Way
Ezra Fitton
The Human Factor
Mike McAllister
Cottage to Let
Flt·Lieut. Perry
Night of the Fox
Brig. Dougal Munro
We Dive at Dawn
Lt. Taylor RN
The Baby and the Battleship
Puncher Roberts
Escapade
John Hampden
Emma Hamilton
Lord William Hamilton
The End of the Affair
Albert Parkis
The Truth About Spring
Tommy Tyler
Frankenstein
De Lacey
The Masks of Death
Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator
Lady Caroline Lamb
Canning
The Way to the Stars
Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
The Wind and the Bomb
1986
Deadly Advice
Jack the Ripper
The Singer Not the Song
Father Michael Keogh
The Gentle Gunman
Terence Sullivan
The October Man
Jim Ackland
Mr. Denning Drives North
Tom Denning
Harnessing Peacocks
Bernard Quigley
Waterloo Road
Jim Colter
Morning Departure
Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong
Town on Trial
Supt. Mike Halloran
Trial by Combat
Colonel Bertie Cook
Broadway Gondolier
1935
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Barney
Dulcima
Mr. Parker
The Green Cockatoo
Jim Connor
Old Bill and Son
Young Bill
The Quatermass Conclusion
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
The Ghost Camera
Ernest Elton
The Valiant
Captain Morgan
Adam's Woman
Sir Philip MacDonald
The Young Mr. Pitt
William Wilberforce
Tudor Rose
Lord Guilford Dudley
The Long Memory
Phillip Davidson
Land of Promise
The Voice
The History of Mr. Polly
Alfred Polly
Africa: Texas Style!
Wing Commander Hayes
The Rocking Horse Winner
Bassett
The Devil's Advocate
Monsignor Blaise Meredith
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003
The Midshipmaid
Golightly
Those Were the Days
Bobby Poskett
The Big Blockade
Tom
It's Great to be Young!
Dingle
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Bobby Jessop
The Big Freeze
Dapper man
So Well Remembered
George Boswell
The Vicious Circle
Dr. Howard Latimer
Royal Cavalcade
Young Enlistee
Car of Dreams
Robert Miller
Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
1960
O.H.M.S.
Cpl. Bert Dawson
First Offence
Johnnie Penrose
All Hands
Jack
A Political Party
Tony Smithers
The Gentleman Thief
Arthur Rosehip
A Profile of In Which We Serve
Interviewee
Doctor's Orders
Ronnie Blake
TV Shows (16)
The Love Boat
Bertram MacDonald · 1 eps
Hotel
1 eps
Tales of the Unexpected
Sam Morrissey · 1 eps
Tales of the Unexpected
William Perkins · 1 eps
Tales of the Unexpected
The Man · 1 eps
Nanny and the Professor
Uncle Alfred · 1 eps
A Woman of Substance
Henry Rossiter · 3 eps
Around the World in 80 Days
Faversham · 3 eps
Hold the Dream
Henry Rossiter · 4 eps
Martin Chuzzlewit
Mr Chuffey · 3 eps
Perfect Scoundrels
Praeger · 1 eps
Dundee and the Culhane
Dundee · 13 eps
The Zoo Gang
Thomas "The Elephant" Devon · 6 eps
Quatermass
Bernard Quatermass · 4 eps
Young at Heart
Albert Collyer · 19 eps
A Tale of Two Cities
Jarvis Lorry · 2 eps
Self / Appearances (16)
The Merv Griffin Show
Self · 1 eps
Wogan
Self · 1 eps
Parkinson
Self · 1 eps
An Audience with...
Self · 1 eps
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self · 1 eps
The Danny Kaye Show
Self · 1 eps
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self · 1 eps
The Dame Edna Experience
Self · 1 eps
The Best of British Cinema
Self - Narrator · 48 eps
Forever Ealing
Self
The Way to Wimbledon
Self - Commentator
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Self – Interviewee
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Self
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Self (uncredited)
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
Self (archive)
