
John Mills
Born February 22, 1908 · 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.
Notable Appearances
Movies
TV Shows

Wogan

Hotel

An Audience with...

Parkinson

The Danny Kaye Show

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Nanny and the Professor

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Talking Pictures

Martin Chuzzlewit

A Woman of Substance

Around the World in 80 Days

Quatermass

The Dame Edna Experience

Dundee and the Culhane

A Tale of Two Cities

Perfect Scoundrels

The Zoo Gang

The Best of British Cinema

Hold the Dream

Young at Heart
More Movies

The Wrong Box

The Thirty Nine Steps

Operation Crossbow

I Was Monty's Double

Above Us the Waves

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Scott of the Antarctic

King Rat

The Baby and the Battleship

Young Winston

Bright Young Things

The Masks of Death

The End of the Affair

Dunkirk

A Black Veil for Lisa

Night of the Fox

The Truth About Spring

Run Wild, Run Free

The Singer Not the Song

This Happy Breed

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage

Dr. Strange

Emma Hamilton

The Way to the Stars

The Chalk Garden

Tunes of Glory

Murder with Mirrors

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Oklahoma Crude

The Colditz Story

The Young Mr. Pitt

Trial by Combat

Forever Ealing

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

Flame in the Streets

Tiara Tahiti

The Family Way

Mr. Denning Drives North

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

The History of Mr. Polly

We Dive at Dawn

Broadway Gondolier

Deadly Advice

The Human Factor

The Vicious Circle

Tiger Bay

It's Great to be Young!

The Rocking Horse Winner

The Grotesque

O.H.M.S.

Escapade

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

The Long Memory

Dulcima

Old Bill and Son

Tudor Rose

Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making

Lady Caroline Lamb

Africa: Texas Style!

Frankenstein

Morning Departure

The Devil's Advocate

Cottage to Let

The October Man

Escape to Paradise/Water Birds

The Gentle Gunman

Brown on Resolution

The Quatermass Conclusion

So Well Remembered

Those Were the Days

Town on Trial

The Big Freeze

The Big Blockade

The Valiant

Waterloo Road

A Profile of In Which We Serve

First Offence

The Way to Wimbledon

Harnessing Peacocks

Land of Promise

The Ghost Camera

Royal Cavalcade

The Gentleman Thief

The Wind and the Bomb

The Green Cockatoo

Adam's Woman

Britannia of Billingsgate

A Political Party

The Midshipmaid

All Hands

Doctor's Orders

























