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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.
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actor
Known For
Who's That Girl
(1987)
Montgomery Bell
Gandhi
(1982)
Lord Chelmsford
Dunkirk
(1958)
Cpl Tubby Binns
Bean
(1997)
Chairman
Great Expectations
(1946)
Pip
The Parent Trap
(1961)
Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
War and Peace
(1956)
Platon Karataev
Ryan's Daughter
(1970)
Michael
Swiss Family Robinson
(1960)
Father
Hamlet
(1996)
Old King Norway
Around the World in Eighty Days
(1956)
London Carriage Driver
Zulu Dawn
(1979)
Sir Henry Bartle Frere
Operation Crossbow
(1965)
General Boyd
Cats
(1998)
Gus the Theatre Cat
Ice Cold in Alex
(1958)
Captain Anson
The Colditz Story
(1955)
Pat Reid
Full Filmography
Acting
The Midshipmaid
(1932)
Golightly
The Ghost Camera
(1933)
Ernest Elton
Britannia of Billingsgate
(1933)
Fred Bolton
Those Were the Days
(1934)
Bobby Poskett
The Lash
(1934)
Arthur Haughton
A Political Party
(1934)
Tony Smithers
Doctor's Orders
(1934)
Ronnie Blake
Charing Cross Road
(1935)
Tony
Royal Cavalcade
(1935)
Young Enlistee
Blind Justice
(1935)
Ralph Summers
Broadway Gondolier
(1935)
Car of Dreams
(1935)
Robert Miller
Brown on Resolution
(1935)
Albert Brown
Tudor Rose
(1936)
Lord Guilford Dudley
The Green Cockatoo
(1937)
Jim Connor
O.H.M.S.
(1937)
Cpl. Bert Dawson
Happy Family
(1939)
Fred
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(1939)
Peter Colley as a Young Man
All Hands
(1940)
Jack
Old Bill and Son
(1941)
Young Bill
Cottage to Let
(1941)
Flt·Lieut. Perry
In Which We Serve
(1942)
Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
(1942)
Bobby Jessop
The Big Blockade
(1942)
Tom
The Young Mr. Pitt
(1942)
William Wilberforce
The Sky’s the Limit
(1943)
Tom
We Dive at Dawn
(1943)
Lt. Taylor RN
Victory Wedding
(1944)
Bill Clark
This Happy Breed
(1944)
Billy Mitchell
Information Please
(1944)
British Flyer
Total War in Britain
(1945)
Narrator (voice)
The Way to the Stars
(1945)
Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
Waterloo Road
(1945)
Jim Colter
Great Expectations
(1946)
Pip
Land of Promise
(1946)
The Voice
So Well Remembered
(1947)
George Boswell
The October Man
(1947)
Jim Ackland
Scott of the Antarctic
(1948)
Captain R.F. Scott R.N.
The Rocking Horse Winner
(1949)
Bassett
The History of Mr. Polly
(1949)
Alfred Polly
Morning Departure
(1950)
Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong
Mr. Denning Drives North
(1951)
Tom Denning
The Gentle Gunman
(1952)
Terence Sullivan
The Way to Wimbledon
(1952)
Self - Commentator
The Long Memory
(1953)
Phillip Davidson
Hobson's Choice
(1954)
William Mossop
The Colditz Story
(1955)
Pat Reid
Escapade
(1955)
John Hampden
Above Us the Waves
(1955)
Commandant Fraser
The End of the Affair
(1955)
Albert Parkis
War and Peace
(1956)
Platon Karataev
Around the World in Eighty Days
(1956)
London Carriage Driver
It's Great to be Young!
(1956)
Dingle
The Baby and the Battleship
(1956)
Puncher Roberts
The Vicious Circle
(1957)
Dr. Howard Latimer
Town on Trial
(1957)
Supt. Mike Halloran
Dunkirk
(1958)
Cpl Tubby Binns
Ice Cold in Alex
(1958)
Captain Anson
I Was Monty's Double
(1958)
Major Harvey
Tiger Bay
(1959)
Superintendent Graham
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
(1959)
Barney
Tunes of Glory
(1960)
Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)
Swiss Family Robinson
(1960)
Father
The Parent Trap
(1961)
Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
The Singer Not the Song
(1961)
Father Michael Keogh
Flame in the Streets
(1961)
Jacko Palmer
Tiara Tahiti
(1962)
Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
The Valiant
(1962)
Captain Morgan
The Chalk Garden
(1964)
Maitland
Operation Crossbow
(1965)
General Boyd
King Rat
(1965)
Smedley-Taylor
The Truth About Spring
(1965)
Tommy Tyler
The Family Way
(1966)
Ezra Fitton
The Wrong Box
(1966)
Masterman Finsbury
Chuka
(1967)
Colonel Stuart Valois
Africa: Texas Style!
(1967)
Wing Commander Hayes
A Black Veil for Lisa
(1968)
Inspector Franz Bulon
Emma Hamilton
(1968)
Lord William Hamilton
Run Wild, Run Free
(1969)
The Moorman (Colonel)
Oh! What a Lovely War
(1969)
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
Adam's Woman
(1970)
Sir Philip MacDonald
Ryan's Daughter
(1970)
Michael
Dulcima
(1971)
Mr. Parker
Young Winston
(1972)
General Kitchner
Lady Caroline Lamb
(1972)
Canning
Oklahoma Crude
(1973)
Cleon Doyle
The Human Factor
(1975)
Mike McAllister
Trial by Combat
(1976)
Colonel Bertie Cook
The Devil's Advocate
(1977)
Monsignor Blaise Meredith
Dr. Strange
(1978)
Thomas Lindmer
The Thirty Nine Steps
(1978)
Scudder
The Big Sleep
(1978)
Inspector Carson
Zulu Dawn
(1979)
Sir Henry Bartle Frere
The Quatermass Conclusion
(1979)
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Gandhi
(1982)
Lord Chelmsford
Sahara
(1983)
Cambridge
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
(1983)
Self
The Masks of Death
(1984)
Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator
Murder with Mirrors
(1985)
Lewis Serrocold
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
(1985)
Self
The Wind and the Bomb
(1986)
When the Wind Blows
(1986)
Jim Bloggs (voice)
Who's That Girl
(1987)
Montgomery Bell
The Lady and the Highwayman
(1988)
Sir Lawrence Dobson
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
(1988)
Self (uncredited)
Ending Up
(1989)
Bernard
Night of the Fox
(1990)
Brig. Dougal Munro
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward
(1992)
Self
Harnessing Peacocks
(1993)
Bernard Quigley
The Big Freeze
(1993)
Dapper man
Frankenstein
(1993)
De Lacey
Deadly Advice
(1994)
Jack the Ripper
The Grotesque
(1995)
Sir Edward Cleghorn
Hamlet
(1996)
Old King Norway
Bean
(1997)
Chairman
Cats
(1998)
Gus the Theatre Cat
A Profile of In Which We Serve
(2000)
Interviewee
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
(2000)
Self
Forever Ealing
(2002)
Self
Bright Young Things
(2003)
Gentleman
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
(2003)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
(2010)
Self – Interviewee
Production
Directing