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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-02-22 (117 years old)

Place of Birth

The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK

John Mills

Biography:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

Acting

2013

Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)

2010

2003

Bright Young Things as Gentleman

2002

2001

The Gentleman Thief as Arthur Rosehip

2000

1998

Cats as Gus the Theatre Cat
Parkinson as Self

1997

Bean as Chairman

1996

Hamlet as Old King Norway

1995

The Grotesque as Sir Edward Cleghorn

1994

Deadly Advice as Jack the Ripper
Martin Chuzzlewit as Mr. Chuffey

1993

Frankenstein as De Lacey
The Big Freeze as Dapper man
Harnessing Peacocks as Bernard Quigley

1992

1990

Night of the Fox as Brig. Dougal Munro

1989

Ending Up as Bernard
A Tale of Two Cities as Jarvis Lorry

1988

The Lady and the Highwayman as Sir Lawrence Dobson

1987

Who's That Girl as Montgomery Bell

1986

When the Wind Blows as Jim Bloggs (voice)
Hold the Dream as Henry Rossiter

1985

Murder with Mirrors as Lewis Serrocold
A Woman of Substance as Henry Rossiter

1984

The Masks of Death as Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator

1983

Sahara as Cambridge

1982

Gandhi as Lord Chelmsford
Wogan as Self

1980

Young at Heart as Albert Collyer

1979

The Quatermass Conclusion as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Zulu Dawn as Sir Henry Bartle Frere
Tales of the Unexpected as Sam Morrissey
Quatermass as Bernard Quatermass
Tales of the Unexpected as William Perkins

1978

The Big Sleep as Inspector Carson
Dr. Strange as Thomas Lindmer

1977

The Devil's Advocate as Monsignor Blaise Meredith
The Love Boat as Bertram MacDonald

1976

Trial by Combat as Colonel Bertie Cook

1975

The Human Factor as Mike McAllister

1974

The Zoo Gang as Thomas "The Elephant" Devon

1973

Oklahoma Crude as Cleon Doyle

1972

Young Winston as General Kitchner

1971

Dulcima as Mr. Parker

1970

Ryan's Daughter as Michael
Adam's Woman as Sir Philip MacDonald
Nanny and the Professor as Uncle Alfred

1969

Oh! What a Lovely War as Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
Run Wild, Run Free as The Moorman (Colonel)

1968

Emma Hamilton as Lord William Hamilton
A Black Veil for Lisa as Inspector Franz Bulon

1967

Chuka as Colonel Stuart Valois
Africa: Texas Style! as Wing Commander Hayes

1966

The Wrong Box as Masterman Finsbury
The Family Way as Ezra Fitton

1965

King Rat as Smedley-Taylor
Operation Crossbow as General Boyd
The Truth About Spring as Tommy Tyler

1964

The Chalk Garden as Maitland

1963

1962

Tiara Tahiti as Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
The Valiant as Captain Morgan

1961

The Singer Not the Song as Father Michael Keogh
Flame in the Streets as Jacko Palmer
The Parent Trap as Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)

1960

Tunes of Glory as Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)

1959

Tiger Bay as Superintendent Graham

1958

Ice Cold in Alex as Captain Anson
Dunkirk as Cpl Tubby Binns
I Was Monty's Double as Major Harvey

1957

Town on Trial as Supt. Mike Halloran
The Vicious Circle as Dr. Howard Latimer

1956

War and Peace as Platon Karataev
The Baby and the Battleship as Puncher Roberts
Around the World in Eighty Days as London Carriage Driver

1955

Above Us the Waves as Commandant Fraser
The Colditz Story as Pat Reid
The End of the Affair as Albert Parkis
Escapade as John Hampden

1954

Hobson's Choice as William Mossop

1953

The Long Memory as Phillip Davidson

1952

The Gentle Gunman as Terence Sullivan
The Way to Wimbledon as Self - Commentator

1951

1950

Morning Departure as Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong

1949

The History of Mr. Polly as Alfred Polly

1948

Scott of the Antarctic as Captain R.F. Scott R.N.

1947

The October Man as Jim Ackland
So Well Remembered as George Boswell

1946

Land of Promise as The Voice

1945

The Way to the Stars as Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
Waterloo Road as Jim Colter
Total War in Britain as Narrator (voice)

1944

This Happy Breed as Billy Mitchell
Victory Wedding as Bill Clark
Information Please as British Flyer

1943

We Dive at Dawn as Lt. Taylor RN

1942

In Which We Serve as Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake
The Young Mr. Pitt as William Wilberforce

1941

Cottage to Let as Flt·Lieut. Perry
Old Bill and Son as Young Bill

1940

All Hands as Jack

1939

Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Peter Colley as a Young Man
Happy Family as Fred

1937

The Green Cockatoo as Jim Connor
O.H.M.S. as Cpl. Bert Dawson

1936

Tudor Rose as Lord Guilford Dudley
First Offence as Johnnie Penrose

1935

Royal Cavalcade as Young Enlistee
Car of Dreams as Robert Miller
Brown on Resolution as Albert Brown
Blind Justice as Ralph Summers

1934

Those Were the Days as Bobby Poskett
Doctor's Orders as Ronnie Blake
A Political Party as Tony Smithers
The Lash as Arthur Haughton

1933

The Ghost Camera as Ernest Elton

1932

The Midshipmaid as Golightly

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Production

1949

Directing

1965

Creator