John Mills

John Mills

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.

On screen

  • Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
  • The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
  • Bright Young Things
  • Forever Ealing
  • Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
  • The Gentleman Thief
  • Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
  • A Profile of In Which We Serve
  • Cats
  • Bean
  • Hamlet
  • The Grotesque
  • Deadly Advice
  • Frankenstein
  • The Big Freeze
  • Harnessing Peacocks
  • Night of the Fox
  • The Lady and the Highwayman
  • One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
  • Who's That Girl
  • When the Wind Blows
  • The Wind and the Bomb
  • Murder with Mirrors
  • The Masks of Death
  • Sahara
  • Gandhi
  • The Quatermass Conclusion
  • Zulu Dawn
  • The Big Sleep
  • The Thirty Nine Steps
  • Dr. Strange
  • The Devil's Advocate
  • Trial by Combat
  • The Human Factor
  • Oklahoma Crude
  • Young Winston
  • Lady Caroline Lamb
  • Dulcima
  • Ryan's Daughter
  • Adam's Woman
  • Oh! What a Lovely War
  • Run Wild, Run Free
  • Emma Hamilton
  • A Black Veil for Lisa
  • Chuka
  • Africa: Texas Style!
  • The Wrong Box
  • The Family Way
  • King Rat
  • Operation Crossbow
  • The Truth About Spring
  • The Chalk Garden
  • Tiara Tahiti
  • The Valiant
  • The Singer Not the Song
  • Flame in the Streets
  • The Parent Trap
  • Tunes of Glory
  • Swiss Family Robinson
  • Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
  • Tiger Bay
  • Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
  • Ice Cold in Alex
  • Dunkirk
  • I Was Monty's Double
  • Town on Trial
  • The Vicious Circle
  • War and Peace
  • The Baby and the Battleship
  • Around the World in 80 Days
  • It's Great to be Young!
  • Above Us the Waves
  • The Colditz Story
  • The End of the Affair
  • Escapade
  • Hobson's Choice
  • The Long Memory
  • The Gentle Gunman
  • The Way to Wimbledon
  • Mr. Denning Drives North
  • Morning Departure
  • The Rocking Horse Winner
  • The History of Mr. Polly
  • Scott of the Antarctic
  • The October Man
  • So Well Remembered
  • Great Expectations
  • Land of Promise
  • The Way to the Stars
  • Waterloo Road
  • This Happy Breed
  • We Dive at Dawn
  • In Which We Serve
  • The Black Sheep of Whitehall
  • The Big Blockade
  • The Young Mr. Pitt
  • Cottage to Let
  • Old Bill and Son
  • All Hands
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  • The Green Cockatoo
  • O.H.M.S.
  • Tudor Rose
  • First Offence
  • Royal Cavalcade
  • Car of Dreams
  • Brown on Resolution
  • Broadway Gondolier
  • Those Were the Days
  • Doctor's Orders
  • A Political Party
  • The Ghost Camera
  • The Midshipmaid

Behind the camera

  • Sky West and Crooked

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