
John Mills
Known for: Acting
Born: February 22, 1908
Died: April 23, 2005
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

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000

When the Wind Blows
1986

The Green Cockatoo
1937

The Quatermass Conclusion
1979

Above Us the Waves
1955

Great Expectations
1946

Tiger Bay
1959

Scott of the Antarctic
1948

We Dive at Dawn
1943

Mr. Denning Drives North
1951

The Wrong Box
1966

Ice Cold in Alex
1958

The Colditz Story
1955

Morning Departure
1950

Swiss Family Robinson
1960

Dunkirk
1958

The October Man
1947

Waterloo Road
1945

The Long Memory
1953

The Gentle Gunman
1952

The History of Mr. Polly
1949

The Baby and the Battleship
1956

I Was Monty's Double
1958

Trial by Combat
1976

Run Wild, Run Free
1969

Town on Trial
1957

The Vicious Circle
1957

A Black Veil for Lisa
1968

The Valiant
1962

Car of Dreams
1935

O.H.M.S.
1937

Escapade
1955

So Well Remembered
1947

Flame in the Streets
1961

The Devil's Advocate
1977
The Sky’s the Limit
1943
Ending Up
1989

First Offence
1936
Charing Cross Road
1935

It's Great to be Young!
1956

Land of Promise
1946

All Hands
1940
Information Please
1944
Total War in Britain
1945

Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
1960

The Human Factor
1975

Cats
1998

In Which We Serve
1942

The Masks of Death
1984

Tunes of Glory
1960

The Way to the Stars
1945

Hobson's Choice
1954

Dulcima
1971

The Singer Not the Song
1961

Tiara Tahiti
1962

The Black Sheep of Whitehall
1942

The Truth About Spring
1965

Africa: Texas Style!
1967
Happy Family
1939

Brown on Resolution
1935

Doctor's Orders
1934

Old Bill and Son
1941
Victory Wedding
1944
The Lash
1934

Frankenstein
1993

Murder with Mirrors
1985

Chuka
1967

The Chalk Garden
1964

Emma Hamilton
1968

The Family Way
1966

Night of the Fox
1990

The End of the Affair
1955

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
1959

Adam's Woman
1970

Tudor Rose
1936

Zulu Dawn
1979

Harnessing Peacocks
1993

Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
2002
The Letter
1956

Oh! What a Lovely War
1969

Operation Crossbow
1965

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939

The Rocking Horse Winner
1949

Ryan's Daughter
1970
Britannia of Billingsgate
1933

Oklahoma Crude
1973

The Ghost Camera
1933

The Big Blockade
1942

The Way to Wimbledon
1952

Lady Caroline Lamb
1972

A Political Party
1934

The Young Mr. Pitt
1942

A Profile of In Which We Serve
2000

Who's That Girl
1987

The Thirty Nine Steps
1978

Cottage to Let
1941

One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1988
Blind Justice
1935
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
1983

Gandhi
1982

King Rat
1965

This Happy Breed
1944

Dr. Strange
1978

Those Were the Days
1934

The Gentleman Thief
2001

The Big Sleep
1978

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003

The Big Freeze
1993

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010

Sahara
1983

The Lady and the Highwayman
1988

Young Winston
1972

Deadly Advice
1994

The Wind and the Bomb
1986

War and Peace
1956

Forever Ealing
2002

The Grotesque
1995

The Midshipmaid
1932

Royal Cavalcade
1935
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
1985

Bright Young Things
2003

The Parent Trap
1961

Bean
1997

Hamlet
1996

Around the World in 80 Days
1956

Broadway Gondolier
1935

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001

Tales of the Unexpected
1979

Hotel
1982

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

Nanny and the Professor
1970

The Zoo Gang
1974

Dundee and the Culhane
1967

A Woman of Substance
1985
Clive Anderson All Talk
1996

Young at Heart
1980

The Best of British Cinema
1987

Perfect Scoundrels
1990

Talking Pictures
2013

The Dame Edna Experience
1987

Around the World in 80 Days
1989

An Audience with...
1978

The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973

Wogan
1982

The Love Boat
1977

Quatermass
1979

The Danny Kaye Show
1963
Late Night Story
1978

Parkinson
1998

A Tale of Two Cities
1989
Producers' Showcase
1954

Martin Chuzzlewit
1994

Hold the Dream
1987