Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 22, 1908
Died
Apr 23, 2005
Place of Birth
The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK
Credits
154 titles
John Mills
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
Filmography
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Self – Interviewee
Bright Young Things
Gentleman
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
Forever Ealing
Self
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
Self (archive)
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self
The Gentleman Thief
Arthur Rosehip
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Self
A Profile of In Which We Serve
Interviewee
Cats
Gus the Theatre Cat
Parkinson
Self
Bean
Chairman
Hamlet
Old King Norway
Clive Anderson All Talk
Self
The Grotesque
Sir Edward Cleghorn
Martin Chuzzlewit
Mr Chuffey
Deadly Advice
Jack the Ripper
Frankenstein
De Lacey
Harnessing Peacocks
Bernard Quigley
The Big Freeze
Dapper man
Night of the Fox
Brig. Dougal Munro
Perfect Scoundrels
Praeger
A Tale of Two Cities
Jarvis Lorry
Around the World in 80 Days
Faversham
Ending Up
Bernard
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Self (uncredited)
The Lady and the Highwayman
Sir Lawrence Dobson
The Dame Edna Experience
Self
Who's That Girl
Montgomery Bell
Hold the Dream
Henry Rossiter
The Best of British Cinema
Self - Narrator
When the Wind Blows
Jim Bloggs (voice)
The Wind and the Bomb
Murder with Mirrors
Lewis Serrocold
A Woman of Substance
Henry Rossiter
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Self
The Masks of Death
Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator
Sahara
Cambridge
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
Self
Gandhi
Lord Chelmsford
Hotel
Wogan
Self
Young at Heart
Albert Collyer
Quatermass
Bernard Quatermass
The Quatermass Conclusion
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Zulu Dawn
Sir Henry Bartle Frere
Tales of the Unexpected
Sam Morrissey
Late Night Story
self
The Thirty Nine Steps
Scudder