John Mills

John Mills

  • Birthday: 1908-02-22
  • Deathday: 2005-04-23
  • Place of birth: The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK
  • Also know as: Lewis Ernest Watts Mills

Biography

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.

Filmography

Gandhi

1982

As Lord Chelmsford

Bean

1997

As Chairman

The Big Sleep

1978

As Inspector Carson

Frankenstein

1993

As De Lacey

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969

As Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig

When the Wind Blows

1986

As Jim Bloggs (voice)

Murder with Mirrors

1985

As Lewis Serrocold

War and Peace

1956

As Platon Karataev

The Human Factor

1975

As Mike McAllister

The Green Cockatoo

1937

As Jim Connor

Cats

1998

As Gus the Theatre Cat

Who's That Girl

1987

As Montgomery Bell

In Which We Serve

1942

As Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake

The Masks of Death

1984

As Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator

Above Us the Waves

1955

As Commandant Fraser

The Quatermass Conclusion

1979

As Prof. Bernard Quatermass

Great Expectations

1946

As Pip

King Rat

1965

As Smedley-Taylor

Operation Crossbow

1965

As General Boyd

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1939

As Peter Colley as a Young Man

The Thirty Nine Steps

1978

As Scudder

Tunes of Glory

1960

As Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)

Tiger Bay

1959

As Superintendent Graham

The Rocking Horse Winner

1949

As Bassett

Scott of the Antarctic

1948

As Captain R.F. Scott R.N.

We Dive at Dawn

1943

As Lt. Taylor RN

Mr. Denning Drives North

1951

As Tom Denning

The Wrong Box

1966

As Masterman Finsbury

The Way to the Stars

1945

As Pilot Officer Peter Penrose

The Young Mr. Pitt

1942

As William Wilberforce

Ice Cold in Alex

1958

As Captain Anson

Hobson's Choice

1954

As William Mossop

Ryan's Daughter

1970

As Michael

The Colditz Story

1955

As Pat Reid

Chuka

1967

As Colonel Stuart Valois

Morning Departure

1950

As Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong

The October Man

1947

As Jim Ackland

The Chalk Garden

1964

As Maitland

Dunkirk

1958

As Cpl Tubby Binns

Sahara

1983

As Cambridge

Waterloo Road

1945

As Jim Colter

Young Winston

1972

As General Kitchner

Emma Hamilton

1968

As Lord William Hamilton

The Long Memory

1953

As Phillip Davidson

Dr. Strange

1978

As Thomas Lindmer

Dulcima

1971

As Mr. Parker

The Gentle Gunman

1952

As Terence Sullivan

This Happy Breed

1944

As Billy Mitchell

The History of Mr. Polly

1949

As Alfred Polly

Night of the Fox

1990

As Brig. Dougal Munro

I Was Monty's Double

1958

As Major Harvey

The Lady and the Highwayman

1988

As Sir Lawrence Dobson

The End of the Affair

1955

As Albert Parkis

The Baby and the Battleship

1956

As Puncher Roberts

Trial by Combat

1976

As Colonel Bertie Cook

Run Wild, Run Free

1969

As The Moorman (Colonel)

The Singer Not the Song

1961

As Father Michael Keogh

Town on Trial

1957

As Supt. Mike Halloran

The Vicious Circle

1957

As Dr. Howard Latimer

A Black Veil for Lisa

1968

As Inspector Franz Bulon

Britannia of Billingsgate

1933

As Fred Bolton

The Family Way

1966

As Ezra Fitton

Tiara Tahiti

1962

As Lt. Col. Clifford Southey

Oklahoma Crude

1973

As Cleon Doyle

The Valiant

1962

As Captain Morgan

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

1942

As Bobby Jessop

The Ghost Camera

1933

As Ernest Elton

The Truth About Spring

1965

As Tommy Tyler

Africa: Texas Style!

1967

As Wing Commander Hayes

O.H.M.S.

1937

As Cpl. Bert Dawson

Escapade

1955

As John Hampden

Those Were the Days

1934

As Bobby Poskett

The Big Blockade

1942

As Tom

Lady Caroline Lamb

1972

As Canning

So Well Remembered

1947

As George Boswell

Bright Young Things

2003

As Gentleman

Hamlet

1996

As Old King Norway

The Big Freeze

1993

As Dapper man

Flame in the Streets

1961

As Jacko Palmer

The Devil's Advocate

1977

As Monsignor Blaise Meredith

Brown on Resolution

1935

As Albert Brown

Car of Dreams

1935

As Robert Miller

Adam's Woman

1970

As Sir Philip MacDonald

Swiss Family Robinson

1960

As Father

The Midshipmaid

1932

As Golightly

Tudor Rose

1936

As Lord Guilford Dudley

Cottage to Let

1941

As Flt·Lieut. Perry

Doctor's Orders

1934

As Ronnie Blake

Old Bill and Son

1941

As Young Bill

A Political Party

1934

As Tony Smithers

Harnessing Peacocks

1993

As Bernard Quigley

Ending Up

1989

As Bernard

Around the World in Eighty Days

1956

As London Carriage Driver

Charing Cross Road

1935

As Tony

The Parent Trap

1961

As Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)

The Lash

1934

As Arthur Haughton

Zulu Dawn

1979

As Sir Henry Bartle Frere

A Profile of In Which We Serve

2000

As Interviewee

Deadly Advice

1994

As Jack the Ripper

Land of Promise

1946

As The Voice

Blind Justice

1935

As Ralph Summers

All Hands

1940

As Jack

Information Please

1944

As British Flyer

Total War in Britain

1945

As Narrator (voice)

Forever Ealing

2002

As Self

The Way to Wimbledon

1952

As Self - Commentator

Royal Cavalcade

1935

As Young Enlistee

Happy Family

1939

As Fred

The Grotesque

1995

As Sir Edward Cleghorn

Production

The Rocking Horse Winner

1949

As Producer

Sky West and Crooked

1965

As Director

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