John Mills

Feb 22, 1908 - Apr 23, 2005 (97 years old) in The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK

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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.

Known For

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The Love Boat

Bertram MacDonald

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Tales of the Unexpected

Sam Morrissey

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Hotel

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Nanny and the Professor

Uncle Alfred

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The Danny Kaye Show

Self

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Talking Pictures

Self (archive footage)

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The Dame Edna Experience

Self

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Gandhi

Lord Chelmsford

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The Parent Trap

Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)

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Bean

Chairman

Credits

The Best of British Cinema Future

★ NR
Talking Pictures 2013

Self (archive footage)

★ 5
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff 2010

Self – Interviewee

★ 6.7
Bright Young Things 2003

Gentleman

★ 6.3
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough 2003

★ NR
Forever Ealing 2002

Self

★ 6.8
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making 2002

Self (archive)

★ NR
The Gentleman Thief 2001

Arthur Rosehip

★ NR
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories 2000

Self

★ NR
A Profile of In Which We Serve 2000

Interviewee

★ NR
Cats 1998

Gus the Theatre Cat

★ 7.3
Bean 1997

Chairman

★ 6.5
Hamlet 1996

Old King Norway

★ 7.3
The Grotesque 1995

Sir Edward Cleghorn

★ 5.4
Martin Chuzzlewit 1994

Mr. Chuffey

★ 7.5
Deadly Advice 1994

Jack the Ripper

★ 4.6
Frankenstein 1993

De Lacey

★ 6.6
Harnessing Peacocks 1993

Bernard Quigley

★ 4.5
The Big Freeze 1993

Dapper man

★ 6.2
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward 1992

Self

★ NR
Night of the Fox 1990

Brig. Dougal Munro

★ 6
Perfect Scoundrels 1990

Praeger

★ 6
A Tale of Two Cities 1989

Jarvis Lorry

★ 5
Around the World in 80 Days 1989

Faversham

★ 6.6
Ending Up 1989

Bernard

★ NR
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage 1988

Self (uncredited)

★ NR
The Lady and the Highwayman 1988

Sir Lawrence Dobson

★ 5.4
The Dame Edna Experience 1987

Self

★ 5
Who's That Girl 1987

Montgomery Bell

★ 5.5
Hold the Dream 1986

Henry Rossiter

★ 3
When the Wind Blows 1986

Jim Bloggs (voice)

★ 7.4
The Wind and the Bomb 1986

★ 7
Murder with Mirrors 1985

Lewis Serrocold

★ 6.5
A Woman of Substance 1985

Henry Rossiter

★ 7.1
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio 1985

Self

★ 6
The Masks of Death 1984

Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator

★ 5.6
Sahara 1983

Cambridge

★ 5.3
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi 1983

Self

★ NR
Gandhi 1982

Lord Chelmsford

★ 7.6
Hotel 1982

★ 6.8
Young at Heart 1980

Albert Collyer

★ NR
The Quatermass Conclusion 1979

Prof. Bernard Quatermass

★ 4.2
Quatermass 1979

Bernard Quatermass

★ 6.4
Zulu Dawn 1979

Sir Henry Bartle Frere

★ 6
Tales of the Unexpected 1979

Sam Morrissey

★ 6.7
Late Night Story 1978

self

★ NR
The Thirty Nine Steps 1978

Scudder

★ 6.7
Dr. Strange 1978

Thomas Lindmer

★ 5.9
The Big Sleep 1978

Inspector Carson

★ 5.9
The Devil's Advocate 1977

Monsignor Blaise Meredith

★ 6.5
The Love Boat 1977

Bertram MacDonald

★ 6.3
Trial by Combat 1976

Colonel Bertie Cook

★ 7.7
The Human Factor 1975

Mike McAllister

★ 5.7
The Zoo Gang 1974

Thomas "The Elephant" Devon

★ 7
Oklahoma Crude 1973

Cleon Doyle

★ 6.1
The American Film Institute Salute to ... 1973

Self

★ 6.3
Lady Caroline Lamb 1972

Canning

★ 5.8
Young Winston 1972

General Kitchner

★ 6.2
Dulcima 1971

Mr. Parker

★ 7.3
Ryan's Daughter 1970

Michael

★ 7.1
Adam's Woman 1970

Sir Philip MacDonald

★ 7.6
Nanny and the Professor 1970

Uncle Alfred

★ 6
Run Wild, Run Free 1969

The Moorman (Colonel)

★ 6
Oh! What a Lovely War 1969

Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig

★ 6.7
Emma Hamilton 1968

Lord William Hamilton

★ 4.4
A Black Veil for Lisa 1968

Inspector Franz Bulon

★ 5.9
Dundee and the Culhane 1967

Dundee

★ 4
Chuka 1967

Colonel Stuart Valois

★ 6.2
Africa: Texas Style! 1967

Wing Commander Hayes

★ NR
The Family Way 1966

Ezra Fitton

★ 6.7
The Wrong Box 1966

Masterman Finsbury

★ 6.5
King Rat 1965

Smedley-Taylor

★ 7
Operation Crossbow 1965

General Boyd

★ 6.7
The Truth About Spring 1965

Tommy Tyler

★ 7
The Chalk Garden 1964

Maitland

★ 7.1
The Danny Kaye Show 1963

Self

★ 6.3
Tiara Tahiti 1962

Lt. Col. Clifford Southey

★ 5.6
The Valiant 1962

Captain Morgan

★ 7.5
Flame in the Streets 1961

Jacko Palmer

★ 5.8
The Parent Trap 1961

Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)

★ 7
The Singer Not the Song 1961

Father Michael Keogh

★ 6.8
Swiss Family Robinson 1960

Father

★ 6.9
Escape to Paradise/Water Birds 1960

★ NR
Tunes of Glory 1960

Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)

★ 7.1
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 1959

Barney

★ 6.3
Tiger Bay 1959

Superintendent Graham

★ 7.2
I Was Monty's Double 1958

Major Harvey

★ 6.8
Ice Cold in Alex 1958

Captain Anson

★ 7.3
Dunkirk 1958

Cpl Tubby Binns

★ 6.8
The Vicious Circle 1957

Dr. Howard Latimer

★ 6.4
Town on Trial 1957

Supt. Mike Halloran

★ 6.5
It's Great to be Young! 1956

Dingle

★ 6.2
Around the World in Eighty Days 1956

London Carriage Driver

★ 6.7
War and Peace 1956

Platon Karataev

★ 6.7
The Baby and the Battleship 1956

Puncher Roberts

★ 6
Escapade 1955

John Hampden

★ 5.2
Above Us the Waves 1955

Commandant Fraser

★ 6.1
The End of the Affair 1955

Albert Parkis

★ 5.8
The Colditz Story 1955

Pat Reid

★ 6.7
Hobson's Choice 1954

William Mossop

★ 7.3
The Long Memory 1953

Phillip Davidson

★ 6.6
The Gentle Gunman 1952

Terence Sullivan

★ 6.2
The Way to Wimbledon 1952

Self - Commentator

★ NR
Mr. Denning Drives North 1951

Tom Denning

★ 6
Morning Departure 1950

Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong

★ 6.6
The Rocking Horse Winner 1949

Bassett

★ 6.6
The History of Mr. Polly 1949

Alfred Polly

★ 7.4
Scott of the Antarctic 1948

Captain R.F. Scott R.N.

★ 7.1
The October Man 1947

Jim Ackland

★ 6.2
So Well Remembered 1947

George Boswell

★ 5.2
Great Expectations 1946

Pip

★ 7.3
Land of Promise 1946

The Voice

★ NR
The Way to the Stars 1945

Pilot Officer Peter Penrose

★ 5.9
Waterloo Road 1945

Jim Colter

★ 6
Total War in Britain 1945

Narrator (voice)

★ NR
This Happy Breed 1944

Billy Mitchell

★ 7.1
Information Please 1944

British Flyer

★ NR
Victory Wedding 1944

Bill Clark

★ NR
We Dive at Dawn 1943

Lt. Taylor RN

★ 6.4
The Sky’s the Limit 1943

Tom

★ NR
The Young Mr. Pitt 1942

William Wilberforce

★ 5.7
In Which We Serve 1942

Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake

★ 6.8
The Black Sheep of Whitehall 1942

Bobby Jessop

★ 7.2
The Big Blockade 1942

Tom

★ 6.5
Cottage to Let 1941

Flt·Lieut. Perry

★ 6.7
Old Bill and Son 1941

Young Bill

★ 6.5
All Hands 1940

Jack

★ NR
Goodbye, Mr. Chips 1939

Peter Colley as a Young Man

★ 7.4
Happy Family 1939

Fred

★ NR
The Green Cockatoo 1937

Jim Connor

★ 5.9
O.H.M.S. 1937

Cpl. Bert Dawson

★ 3.5
Tudor Rose 1936

Lord Guilford Dudley

★ 8.1
First Offence 1936

Johnnie Penrose

★ NR
Broadway Gondolier 1935

★ 5.4
Brown on Resolution 1935

Albert Brown

★ 5.8
Royal Cavalcade 1935

Young Enlistee

★ NR
Blind Justice 1935

Ralph Summers

★ NR
Car of Dreams 1935

Robert Miller

★ 5.6
Charing Cross Road 1935

Tony

★ NR
Doctor's Orders 1934

Ronnie Blake

★ 6
The Lash 1934

Arthur Haughton

★ 6.5
A Political Party 1934

Tony Smithers

★ NR
Those Were the Days 1934

Bobby Poskett

★ 7.5
The Ghost Camera 1933

Ernest Elton

★ 6.1
Britannia of Billingsgate 1933

Fred Bolton

★ 6
The Midshipmaid 1932

Golightly

★ NR

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