John Mills

ActorDirectorProducer Feb 22 (died age 97) The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK 1932–2013 (81 year career)

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Biography

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.

Known For

Film

Gandhi

Lord Chelmsford

Film

Bean

Chairman

Film

Hamlet

Old King Norway

Film

When the Wind Blows

Jim Bloggs (voice)

Film

Great Expectations

Pip

Film

The Parent Trap

Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)

Film

Around the World in 80 Days

London Carriage Driver

Film

Swiss Family Robinson

Father

Filmography

Acting (153)

Movies (125)

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

2010

as Self – Interviewee

6.6

Bright Young Things

2003

as Gentleman

6.2

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

2003

Forever Ealing

2002

as Self

6.8

Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making

2002

as Self (archive)

The Gentleman Thief

2001

as Arthur Rosehip

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

2000

as Self

A Profile of In Which We Serve

2000

as Interviewee

Cats

1998

as Gus the Theatre Cat

Bean

as Chairman

Hamlet

as Old King Norway

The Grotesque

as Sir Edward Cleghorn

Deadly Advice

as Jack the Ripper

Harnessing Peacocks

as Bernard Quigley

Frankenstein

as De Lacey

The Big Freeze

as Dapper man

Night of the Fox

as Brig. Dougal Munro

6.0

Ending Up

1989

as Bernard

The Lady and the Highwayman

1988

as Sir Lawrence Dobson

5.1

One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage

1988

as Self (uncredited)

Who's That Girl

1987

as Montgomery Bell

5.5

The Wind and the Bomb

1986

7.0

When the Wind Blows

1986

as Jim Bloggs (voice)

7.5

Murder with Mirrors

1985

as Lewis Serrocold

6.5

The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio

1985

as Self

6.0

The Masks of Death

1984

as Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator

5.2

Sahara

1983

as Cambridge

5.7

Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi

1983

as Self

Gandhi

1982

as Lord Chelmsford

7.6

Zulu Dawn

1979

as Sir Henry Bartle Frere

6.1

The Quatermass Conclusion

1979

as Prof. Bernard Quatermass

4.2

Dr. Strange

1978

as Thomas Lindmer

6.0

The Thirty Nine Steps

as Scudder

The Big Sleep

as Inspector Carson

The Devil's Advocate

as Monsignor Blaise Meredith

6.5

Trial by Combat

1976

as Colonel Bertie Cook

The Human Factor

as Mike McAllister

Oklahoma Crude

as Cleon Doyle

Young Winston

as General Kitchner

Lady Caroline Lamb

as Canning

Dulcima

as Mr. Parker

Ryan's Daughter

as Michael

Adam's Woman

as Sir Philip MacDonald

6.9

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969

as Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig

6.7

Run Wild, Run Free

1969

as The Moorman (Colonel)

6.0

A Black Veil for Lisa

1968

as Inspector Franz Bulon

5.7

Emma Hamilton

1968

as Lord William Hamilton

4.0

Chuka

1967

as Colonel Stuart Valois

6.3

Africa: Texas Style!

1967

as Wing Commander Hayes

The Family Way

1966

as Ezra Fitton

6.5

The Wrong Box

1966

as Masterman Finsbury

King Rat

as Smedley-Taylor

Operation Crossbow

as General Boyd

The Truth About Spring

as Tommy Tyler

The Chalk Garden

as Maitland

Tiara Tahiti

as Lt. Col. Clifford Southey

6.0

The Valiant

1962

as Captain Morgan

7.5

The Singer Not the Song

1961

as Father Michael Keogh

6.3

The Parent Trap

1961

as Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)

7.0

Flame in the Streets

1961

as Jacko Palmer

5.9

Swiss Family Robinson

1960

as Father

6.9

Tunes of Glory

1960

as Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)

7.1

Escape to Paradise/Water Birds

1960

Tiger Bay

1959

as Superintendent Graham

7.2

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

as Barney

Ice Cold in Alex

as Captain Anson

Dunkirk

as Cpl Tubby Binns

I Was Monty's Double

as Major Harvey

The Vicious Circle

as Dr. Howard Latimer

6.4

Town on Trial

1957

as Supt. Mike Halloran

6.5

Around the World in 80 Days

1956

as London Carriage Driver

6.6

War and Peace

1956

as Platon Karataev

6.6

The Baby and the Battleship

1956

as Puncher Roberts

6.0

It's Great to be Young!

as Dingle

The Colditz Story

as Pat Reid

Escapade

as John Hampden

Above Us the Waves

as Commandant Fraser

The End of the Affair

as Albert Parkis

Hobson's Choice

as William Mossop

The Long Memory

as Phillip Davidson

The Way to Wimbledon

as Self - Commentator

The Gentle Gunman

1952

as Terence Sullivan

6.2

Mr. Denning Drives North

1951

as Tom Denning

6.0

Morning Departure

1950

as Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong

6.8

The Rocking Horse Winner

1949

as Bassett

6.5

The History of Mr. Polly

1949

as Alfred Polly

7.4

Scott of the Antarctic

1948

as Captain R.F. Scott R.N.

The October Man

as Jim Ackland

So Well Remembered

as George Boswell

Land of Promise

as The Voice

Great Expectations

as Pip

Total War in Britain

as Narrator (voice)

The Way to the Stars

as Pilot Officer Peter Penrose

Waterloo Road

as Jim Colter

This Happy Breed

as Billy Mitchell

Information Please

as British Flyer

Victory Wedding

1944

as Bill Clark

The Sky’s the Limit

1943

as Tom

We Dive at Dawn

1943

as Lt. Taylor RN

6.4

In Which We Serve

1942

as Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake

6.8

The Young Mr. Pitt

1942

as William Wilberforce

5.7

The Big Blockade

1942

as Tom

6.0

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

as Bobby Jessop

Cottage to Let

as Flt·Lieut. Perry

Old Bill and Son

as Young Bill

All Hands

as Jack

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

as Peter Colley as a Young Man

7.4

Happy Family

1939

as Fred

The Green Cockatoo

as Jim Connor

O.H.M.S.

as Cpl. Bert Dawson

Tudor Rose

as Lord Guilford Dudley

8.1

First Offence

1936

as Johnnie Penrose

Brown on Resolution

as Albert Brown

Car of Dreams

as Robert Miller

Broadway Gondolier

Charing Cross Road

as Tony

Royal Cavalcade

1935

as Young Enlistee

Blind Justice

1935

as Ralph Summers

A Political Party

1934

as Tony Smithers

The Lash

as Arthur Haughton

Doctor's Orders

as Ronnie Blake

Those Were the Days

as Bobby Poskett

Britannia of Billingsgate

as Fred Bolton

The Ghost Camera

as Ernest Elton

The Midshipmaid

as Golightly

Television (28)

Talking Pictures

2013

as Self (archive footage)

5.8

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

2001

as Self

6.0

Parkinson

1998

as Self

Clive Anderson All Talk

1996

as Self

Martin Chuzzlewit

as Mr. Chuffey

Martin Chuzzlewit

as Mr Chuffey

Perfect Scoundrels

as Praeger

Around the World in 80 Days

as Faversham

A Tale of Two Cities

as Jarvis Lorry

The Dame Edna Experience

1987

as Self

4.0

The Best of British Cinema

1987

as Self - Narrator

Hold the Dream

as Henry Rossiter

A Woman of Substance

as Henry Rossiter

Wogan

as Self

Hotel

Young at Heart

as Albert Collyer

Tales of the Unexpected

1979

as William Perkins

6.7

Quatermass

1979

as Bernard Quatermass

An Audience with...

as Self

Late Night Story

as self

The Love Boat

1977

as Bertram MacDonald

6.3

The Zoo Gang

1974

as Thomas "The Elephant" Devon

7.0

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

1973

as Self

6.3

Nanny and the Professor

1970

as Uncle Alfred

6.0

Dundee and the Culhane

as Dundee

The Danny Kaye Show

as Self

The Merv Griffin Show

as Self

Producers' Showcase

as Robert Crosbie

Crew (2)

Movies (2)

Sky West and Crooked

1966

Director

5.4

The Rocking Horse Winner

1949

Producer

6.5