From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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
Movies
- Bean
1997
- Gandhi
1982
- Frankenstein
1993
- The Big Sleep
1978
- Sir John Mills' Moving ...
2000
- When the Wind Blows
1986
- Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
- Murder with Mirrors
1985
- War and Peace
1956
- The Human Factor
1975
- The Green Cockatoo
1937
- Cats
1998
- Who's That Girl
1987
- In Which We Serve
1942
- The Masks of Death
1984
- The Quatermass Conclusi...
1979
- Above Us the Waves
1955
- King Rat
1965
- Operation Crossbow
1965
- Great Expectations
1946
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939
- The Thirty Nine Steps
1978
- Tunes of Glory
1960
- Tiger Bay
1959
- The Rocking Horse Winner
1949
- Scott of the Antarctic
1948
- We Dive at Dawn
1943
- Mr. Denning Drives North
1951
- The Wrong Box
1966
- The Way to the Stars
1945
- Ice Cold in Alex
1958
- Hobson's Choice
1954
- Ryan's Daughter
1970
- The Colditz Story
1955
- Chuka
1967
- The Chalk Garden
1964
- Young Winston
1972
- Morning Departure
1950
- Swiss Family Robinson
1960
- Dunkirk
1958
- The October Man
1947
- Sahara
1983
- Waterloo Road
1945
- Le calde notti di Lady ...
1968
- The Family Way
1966
- This Happy Breed
1944
- The Long Memory
1953
- Dulcima
1971
- Dr. Strange
1978
- The Gentle Gunman
1952
- Cottage to Let
1941
- The History of Mr. Polly
1949
- Night of the Fox
1990
- The End of the Affair
1955
- The Baby and the Battle...
1956
- I Was Monty's Double
1958
- Trial by Combat
1976
- The Lady and the Highwa...
1988
- The Singer Not the Song
1961
- Run Wild, Run Free
1969
- Summer of the Seventeen...
1959
- Town on Trial
1957
- The Vicious Circle
1957
- La morte non ha sesso
1968
- Britannia of Billingsga...
1933
- Tiara Tahiti
1962
- Royal Cavalcade
1935
- Oklahoma Crude
1973
- The Valiant
1962
- The Black Sheep of Whit...
1942
- The Ghost Camera
1933
- The Truth About Spring
1965
- Car of Dreams
1935
- O.H.M.S.
1937
- Escapade
1955
- Africa: Texas Style!
1967
- Those Were the Days
1934
- Forever Ealing
2002
- The Many Lives of Richa...
2003
- The Big Blockade
1942
- The Way to Wimbledon
1952
- So Well Remembered
1947
- Lady Caroline Lamb
1972
- Hamlet
1996
- The Big Freeze
1993
- Flame in the Streets
1961
- One More Audience with ...
1988
- Des Teufels Advokat
1977
- The Sky’s the Limit
1943
- Happy Family
1939
- Brown on Resolution
1935
- Adam's Woman
1970
- Broadway Gondolier
1935
- The Grotesque
1995
- The Midshipmaid
1932
- Tudor Rose
1936
- Zulu Dawn
1979
- Doctor's Orders
1934
- The Golden Gong: The St...
1985
- The South Bank Show: No...
1992
- Old Bill and Son
1941
- A Political Party
1934
- Victory Wedding
1944
- Bright Young Things
2003
- Harnessing Peacocks
1993
- Around the World in Eig...
1956
- Ending Up
1989
- First Offence
1936
- Charing Cross Road
1935
- The Parent Trap
1961
- The Lash
1934
- The Young Mr. Pitt
1942
- It's Great to be Young!
1956
- A Profile of In Which W...
2000
- Deadly Advice
1994
- Land of Promise
1946
- Blind Justice
1935
- All Hands
1940
- Cameraman: The Life and...
2010
- Information Please
1944
- The Wind and the Bomb
1986
- Mr. Attenborough and Mr...
1983
- Total War in Britain
1945
- Swiss Family Robinson: ...
2002
- Escape to Paradise/Wate...
1960
- The Gentleman Thief
2001
TV Shows
- Friday Night with Jonat...
2001
- Tales of the Unexpected
1979
- Hotel
1982
- The Merv Griffin Show
1962
- Nanny and the Professor
1970
- The Zoo Gang
1974
- Dundee and the Culhane
1967
- A Woman of Substance
1985
- Clive Anderson All Talk
1996
- Young at Heart
1980
- The Best of British Cin...
- Perfect Scoundrels
1990
- Talking Pictures
2013
- The Dame Edna Experience
1987
- Hold the Dream
1986
- Around the World in 80 ...
1989
- An Audience with...
1978
- The American Film Insti...
1973
- Wogan
1982
- A Tale of Two Cities
1989
- Martin Chuzzlewit
1994
- The Love Boat
1977
- Quatermass
1979
- The Danny Kaye Show
1963
- Tales of the Unexpected
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected
1979
- Late Night Story
1978
- Parkinson
1998