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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
Gandhi
(1982)
Lord Chelmsford
Dunkirk
(1958)
Cpl Tubby Binns
Who's That Girl
(1987)
Montgomery Bell
Bean
(1997)
Chairman
Hamlet
(1996)
Old King Norway
The Parent Trap
(1961)
Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
War and Peace
(1956)
Platon Karataev
Great Expectations
(1946)
Pip
Around the World in Eighty Days
(1956)
London Carriage Driver
Swiss Family Robinson
(1960)
Father
Cats
(1998)
Gus the Theatre Cat
Sahara
(1983)
Cambridge
Zulu Dawn
(1979)
Sir Henry Bartle Frere
Ryan's Daughter
(1970)
Michael
Oh! What a Lovely War
(1969)
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
Operation Crossbow
(1965)
General Boyd
Full Filmography
Acting
The Midshipmaid
(1932)
Golightly
Britannia of Billingsgate
(1933)
Fred Bolton
The Ghost Camera
(1933)
Ernest Elton
Those Were the Days
(1934)
Bobby Poskett
Doctor's Orders
(1934)
Ronnie Blake
A Political Party
(1934)
Tony Smithers
The Lash
(1934)
Arthur Haughton
Brown on Resolution
(1935)
Albert Brown
Car of Dreams
(1935)
Robert Miller
Broadway Gondolier
(1935)
Charing Cross Road
(1935)
Tony
Blind Justice
(1935)
Ralph Summers
Royal Cavalcade
(1935)
Young Enlistee
Tudor Rose
(1936)
Lord Guilford Dudley
The Green Cockatoo
(1937)
Jim Connor
O.H.M.S.
(1937)
Cpl. Bert Dawson
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(1939)
Peter Colley as a Young Man
Happy Family
(1939)
Fred
All Hands
(1940)
Jack
Cottage to Let
(1941)
Flt·Lieut. Perry
Old Bill and Son
(1941)
Young Bill
In Which We Serve
(1942)
Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake
The Young Mr. Pitt
(1942)
William Wilberforce
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
(1942)
Bobby Jessop
The Big Blockade
(1942)
Tom
We Dive at Dawn
(1943)
Lt. Taylor RN
The Sky’s the Limit
(1943)
Tom
This Happy Breed
(1944)
Billy Mitchell
Information Please
(1944)
British Flyer
Victory Wedding
(1944)
Bill Clark
The Way to the Stars
(1945)
Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
Waterloo Road
(1945)
Jim Colter
Total War in Britain
(1945)
Narrator (voice)
Great Expectations
(1946)
Pip
Land of Promise
(1946)
The Voice
The October Man
(1947)
Jim Ackland
So Well Remembered
(1947)
George Boswell
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
Above Us the Waves
(1955)
Commandant Fraser
The Colditz Story
(1955)
Pat Reid
The End of the Affair
(1955)
Albert Parkis
Escapade
(1955)
John Hampden
War and Peace
(1956)
Platon Karataev
The Baby and the Battleship
(1956)
Puncher Roberts
Around the World in Eighty Days
(1956)
London Carriage Driver
It's Great to be Young!
(1956)
Dingle
Town on Trial
(1957)
Supt. Mike Halloran
The Vicious Circle
(1957)
Dr. Howard Latimer
Ice Cold in Alex
(1958)
Captain Anson
Dunkirk
(1958)
Cpl Tubby Binns
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 Singer Not the Song
(1961)
Father Michael Keogh
Flame in the Streets
(1961)
Jacko Palmer
The Parent Trap
(1961)
Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
Tiara Tahiti
(1962)
Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
The Valiant
(1962)
Captain Morgan
The Chalk Garden
(1964)
Maitland
King Rat
(1965)
Smedley-Taylor
Operation Crossbow
(1965)
General Boyd
The Truth About Spring
(1965)
Tommy Tyler
The Wrong Box
(1966)
Masterman Finsbury
The Family Way
(1966)
Ezra Fitton
Chuka
(1967)
Colonel Stuart Valois
Africa: Texas Style!
(1967)
Wing Commander Hayes
Emma Hamilton
(1968)
Lord William Hamilton
A Black Veil for Lisa
(1968)
Inspector Franz Bulon
Oh! What a Lovely War
(1969)
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
Run Wild, Run Free
(1969)
The Moorman (Colonel)
Ryan's Daughter
(1970)
Michael
Adam's Woman
(1970)
Sir Philip MacDonald
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
The Big Sleep
(1978)
Inspector Carson
The Thirty Nine Steps
(1978)
Scudder
Dr. Strange
(1978)
Thomas Lindmer
The Quatermass Conclusion
(1979)
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Zulu Dawn
(1979)
Sir Henry Bartle Frere
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
When the Wind Blows
(1986)
Jim Bloggs (voice)
The Wind and the Bomb
(1986)
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
Frankenstein
(1993)
De Lacey
The Big Freeze
(1993)
Dapper man
Harnessing Peacocks
(1993)
Bernard Quigley
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