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John Mills

Sir John Mills CBE (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills) was a British actor who appeared in more than 100 motion pictures and dozens of stage plays and television programs during a career that spanned some seven decades. On screen he often played people who were not at all exceptional, but become heroes because of their common sense, generosity and good judgment.

Aliases
  • Sir John Mills
  • John Mills C.B.E.
English
Filmography
  • Born In North Elmham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
  • Born February 22, 1908
  • Died April 23, 2005
  • On Other Sites IMDB TheMovieDB.com Wikipedia
  • Created April 5, 2019 by
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  • Modified June 12, 2023 by
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Brexit: The Movie

2016

Pinewood: 80 Years of Movie Magic

2015
as Pip

Peace One Day

2004
as John Mills

Bright Young Things

2003

Forever Ealing

2002
as Self - Interviewee

The Gentleman Thief

2001
as Arthur Rosehip

Cats

1998
as Gus the Theatrical Cat

Bean

1997
as Chairman

Hamlet

1996
as Old King Norway

Martin Chuzzlewit

1994
as Mr. Chuffey

Deadly Advice

1994
as Jack the Ripper

Martin Chuzzlewit

1994
as Mr. Chuffey

Martin Chuzzlewit

1994
as Mr. Chuffey

Martin Chuzzlewit

1994
as Mr. Chuffey

The Big Freeze

1993
as Dapper Man

Harnessing Peacocks

1993
as Bernard Quigley

Frankenstein

1992
as De Lacey

The South Bank Show: Noel Coward

1992
as John Mills

Night of the Fox

1990
as Brig. Dougal Munro

The Lady and the Highwayman

1989
as Sir Lawrence Dobson

Ending Up

1989
as Bernard

Peter Cushing: A One Way Ticket to Hollywood

1989
as Dr.Watson

Who's That Girl

1987
as Montgomery Bell

When the Wind Blows

1986
as Jim (voice)

Murder with Mirrors

1985
as Lewis Serrocold

The Masks of Death

1984
as Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator

Sahara

1983
as Cambridge

Gandhi

1982
as Lord Chelmsford

Quatermass

1979
as Bernard Quatermass

The Quatermass Conclusion

1979
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass

Zulu Dawn

1979
as Sir Henry Bartle Frere

The Big Sleep

1978
as Inspektor Carson

Dr. Strange

1978
as Thomas Lindmer

The Thirty Nine Steps

1978
as Scudder

Late Night Story

1978
as Himself - Reader

Trial by Combat

1976
as Colonel Bertie Cook

The 'Human' Factor

1975
as Mike McAllister

The Zoo Gang

1974

Oklahoma Crude

1973
as Cleon Doyle

Young Winston

1972
as General Kitchner

Lady Caroline Lamb

1972
as Canning

Dulcima

1971
as Mr. Parker

Adam's Woman

1970
as Sir Philip MacDonald

Ryan's Daughter

1970
as Michael

Run Wild, Run Free

1969
as The Moorman (Colonel)

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969
as Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig

Emma Hamilton

1968
as Lord William Hamilton

A Black Veil for Lisa

1968
as Inspector Franz Bulon

Dundee and the Culhane

1967
as Dundee

Africa: Texas Style!

1967
as Wing Commander Hayes

Chuka

1967
as Colonel Stuart Valois

The Wrong Box

1966
as Masterman Finsbury

The Family Way

1966
as Ezra Fitton

King Rat

1965
as Smedley-Taylor

The Truth About Spring

1965
as Tommy Tyler

Operation Crossbow

1965
as General Boyd

The Chalk Garden

1964
as Maitland

The Valiant

1962
as Captain Morgan

Tiara Tahiti

1962
as Lt. Col. Clifford Southey

Flame in the Streets

1961
as Jacko Palmer

The Singer Not the Song

1961
as Father Michael Keogh

Swiss Family Robinson

1960
as Father

Tunes of Glory

1960
as Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)

Tiger Bay

1959
as Superintendent Graham

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

1959
as Barney

I Was Monty's Double

1958
as Major Harvey

Ice Cold in Alex

1958
as Captain Anson

Dunkirk

1958
as Cpl Tubby Bins

Town on Trial

1957
as Supt. Mike Halloran

The Vicious Circle

1957
as Dr. Howard Latimer

The Baby and the Battleship

1957
as Puncher Roberts

It's Great to be Young!

1956

War and Peace

1956
as Platon Karataev

Around the World in 80 Days

1956
as London Carriage Driver

The Colditz Story

1955
as Pat Reid

The End of the Affair

1955
as Albert Parkis

Escapade

1955
as John Hampden

Above Us the Waves

1955
as Commandant Fraser

Hobson's Choice

1954
as Willie Mossop

The Long Memory

1953
as Phillip Davidson

The Gentle Gunman

1952
as Terence Sullivan

Mr. Denning Drives North

1951
as Tom Denning

Morning Departure

1950
as Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong

The History of Mr. Polly

1949
as Alfred Polly

Scott of the Antarctic

1948
as Captain R.F. Scott R.N.

So Well Remembered

1947
as George Boswell

The October Man

1947
as Jim Ackland

Land of Promise

1946
as The Voice

Great Expectations

1946
as Pip

Waterloo Road

1945
as Jim Colter

The Way to the Stars

1945
as Pilot Officer Peter Penrose

This Happy Breed

1944
as Billy Mitchell

We Dive at Dawn

1943
as Lt. Taylor RN

In Which We Serve

1942
as Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake

The Big Blockade

1942
as Tom

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

1942
as Bobby Jessop

The Young Mr. Pitt

1942
as William Wilberforce

Rhythm Parade

1942
as Member - The Mills Brothers

Old Bill and Son

1941
as Young Bill Busby

Bombsight Stolen

1941
as Flt·Lieut. Perry

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1939
as Peter Colley - as a Young Man

The Green Cockatoo

1937
as Jim Connor

O.H.M.S.

1937
as Cpl. Bert Dawson

Tudor Rose

1936
as Lord Guilford Dudley

Broadway Gondolier

1935

Charing Cross Road

1935
as Tony

Car of Dreams

1935
as Robert Miller

Brown on Resolution

1935
as Albert Brown

The Lash

1934
as Arthur Haughton

Britannia of Billingsgate

1933
as Fred Bolton

The Ghost Camera

1933
as Ernest Elton

The Midshipmaid

1932
as Golightly

Director

Movie Female Mercenaries 1983
Movie Sky West and Crooked 1965

Producer

Movie Invasion: Planet Earth 2019

Guest Star

Episode The Dame Edna Experience
John Mills, Rudolf Nureyev, Barry Humphries, Cynthia Payne 		1987
Episode Hotel
Changes of Heart 		1986
Episode Tales of the Unexpected
Operation Safecrack 		1982
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
John Mills 		1981
Episode Tales of the Unexpected
The Umbrella Man 		1980
Episode Tales of the Unexpected
Galloping Foxley 		1980
Episode Nanny and the Professor
The Human Fly 		1971
Episode Hollywood History
World War Two 		1970