John Mills

Born

February 22, 1908

Died

April 23, 2005 (97 years old)

Known For

Acting

Place of Birth

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

IMDb

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

6.5

The Parent Trap

Talking Pictures

Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)

5.0

2013

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Self – Interviewee

6.7

2010

Bright Young Things

Gentleman

6.3

2003

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

0.0

2003

Forever Ealing

Self

6.8

2002

Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making

Self (archive)

0.0

2002

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Self · (1 episode)

5.8

2001

The Gentleman Thief

Arthur Rosehip

0.0

2001

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

Self

0.0

2000

A Profile of In Which We Serve

Interviewee

0.0

2000

Cats

Gus the Theatre Cat

7.2

1998

Parkinson

Self · (1 episode)

0.0

1998

Bean

Chairman

6.5

1997

Hamlet

Old King Norway

7.3

1996

Clive Anderson All Talk

Self · (1 episode)

0.0

1996

The Grotesque

Sir Edward Cleghorn

5.3

1995

Martin Chuzzlewit

Mr. Chuffey · (6 episodes)

7.5

1994

Deadly Advice

Jack the Ripper

4.6

1994

Frankenstein

De Lacey

6.6

1993

Harnessing Peacocks

Bernard Quigley

4.5

1993

The Big Freeze

Dapper man

6.2

1993

The South Bank Show: Noël Coward

Self

0.0

1992

Night of the Fox

Brig. Dougal Munro

6.0

1990

Perfect Scoundrels

Praeger · (1 episode)

6.0

1990

A Tale of Two Cities

Jarvis Lorry · (2 episodes)

5.0

1989

Around the World in 80 Days

Faversham · (3 episodes)

6.6

1989

Ending Up

Bernard

0.0

1989

One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage

Self (uncredited)

0.0

1988

The Lady and the Highwayman

Sir Lawrence Dobson

5.1

1988

The Dame Edna Experience

Self · (1 episode)

5.0

1987

Who's That Girl

Montgomery Bell

5.5

1987

Hold the Dream

Henry Rossiter · (4 episodes)

3.0

1986

When the Wind Blows

Jim Bloggs (voice)

7.4

1986

The Wind and the Bomb

7.0

1986

Murder with Mirrors

Lewis Serrocold

6.5

1985

A Woman of Substance

Henry Rossiter · (3 episodes)

7.1

1985

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

Self

6.0

1985

The Masks of Death

Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator

5.6

1984

Sahara

Cambridge

5.4

1983

Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi

Self

0.0

1983

Gandhi

Lord Chelmsford

7.6

1982

Hotel

(1 episode)

6.8

1982

Wogan

Self · (1 episode)

4.5

1982

Young at Heart

Albert Collyer · (19 episodes)

0.0

1980

The Quatermass Conclusion

Prof. Bernard Quatermass

4.2

1979

Quatermass

Bernard Quatermass · (4 episodes)

6.6

1979

Zulu Dawn

Sir Henry Bartle Frere

6.0

1979

Tales of the Unexpected

Sam Morrissey · (1 episode)

6.7

1979

Tales of the Unexpected

William Perkins · (1 episode)

6.7

1979

Tales of the Unexpected

The Man · (1 episode)

6.7

1979

Late Night Story

self · (5 episodes)

0.0

1978

The Thirty Nine Steps

Scudder

6.7

1978

Dr. Strange

Thomas Lindmer

6.0

1978

The Big Sleep

Inspector Carson

5.9

1978

An Audience with...

Self · (1 episode)

5.3

1978

The Devil's Advocate

Monsignor Blaise Meredith

6.5

1977

The Love Boat

Bertram MacDonald · (1 episode)

6.3

1977

Trial by Combat

Colonel Bertie Cook

7.7

1976

The Human Factor

Mike McAllister

5.7

1975

The Zoo Gang

Thomas "The Elephant" Devon · (6 episodes)

7.0

1974

Oklahoma Crude

Cleon Doyle

6.1

1973

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Self · (1 episode)

6.3

1973

Lady Caroline Lamb

Canning

5.8

1972

Young Winston

General Kitchner

6.2

1972

Dulcima

Mr. Parker

7.3

1971

Ryan's Daughter

Michael

7.1

1970

Adam's Woman

Sir Philip MacDonald

7.6

1970

Nanny and the Professor

Uncle Alfred · (1 episode)

6.0

1970

Run Wild, Run Free

The Moorman (Colonel)

6.0

1969

Oh! What a Lovely War

Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig

6.8

1969

Emma Hamilton

Lord William Hamilton

4.4

1968

A Black Veil for Lisa

Inspector Franz Bulon

5.9

1968

Dundee and the Culhane

Dundee · (13 episodes)

4.0

1967

Chuka

Colonel Stuart Valois

6.2

1967

Africa: Texas Style!

Wing Commander Hayes

0.0

1967

The Family Way

Ezra Fitton

6.7

1966

The Wrong Box

Masterman Finsbury

6.5

1966

King Rat

Smedley-Taylor

7.1

1965

Operation Crossbow

General Boyd

6.8

1965

The Truth About Spring

Tommy Tyler

7.0

1965

The Chalk Garden

Maitland

7.0

1964

The Danny Kaye Show

Self · (1 episode)

6.3

1963

The Merv Griffin Show

Self · (1 episode)

5.8

1962

Tiara Tahiti

Lt. Col. Clifford Southey

5.6

1962

The Valiant

Captain Morgan

7.5

1962

Flame in the Streets

Jacko Palmer

5.9

1961

The Parent Trap

Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)

7.0

1961

The Singer Not the Song

Father Michael Keogh

6.8

1961

Swiss Family Robinson

Father

6.9

1960

Escape to Paradise/Water Birds

0.0

1960

Tunes of Glory

Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)

7.1

1960

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Barney

6.3

1959

Tiger Bay

Superintendent Graham

7.2

1959

I Was Monty's Double

Major Harvey

6.9

1958

Ice Cold in Alex

Captain Anson

7.3

1958

Dunkirk

Cpl Tubby Binns

6.8

1958

The Vicious Circle

Dr. Howard Latimer

6.4

1957

Town on Trial

Supt. Mike Halloran

6.5

1957

It's Great to be Young!

Dingle

6.2

1956

Around the World in Eighty Days

London Carriage Driver

6.6

1956

War and Peace

Platon Karataev

6.7

1956

The Baby and the Battleship

Puncher Roberts

6.0

1956

Escapade

John Hampden

5.2

1955

Above Us the Waves

Commandant Fraser

6.1

1955

The End of the Affair

Albert Parkis

5.8

1955

The Colditz Story

Pat Reid

6.7

1955

Hobson's Choice

William Mossop

7.3

1954

The Long Memory

Phillip Davidson

6.6

1953

The Gentle Gunman

Terence Sullivan

6.2

1952

The Way to Wimbledon

Self - Commentator

0.0

1952

Mr. Denning Drives North

Tom Denning

6.0

1951

Morning Departure

Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong

6.6

1950

The Rocking Horse Winner

Bassett

6.6

1949

The History of Mr. Polly

Alfred Polly

7.4

1949

Scott of the Antarctic

Captain R.F. Scott R.N.

7.1

1948

The October Man

Jim Ackland

6.2

1947

So Well Remembered

George Boswell

5.2

1947

Great Expectations

Pip

7.3

1946

Land of Promise

The Voice

0.0

1946

The Way to the Stars

Pilot Officer Peter Penrose

6.1

1945

Waterloo Road

Jim Colter

6.2

1945

Total War in Britain

Narrator (voice)

10.0

1945

This Happy Breed

Billy Mitchell

7.1

1944

Information Please

British Flyer

0.0

1944

Victory Wedding

Bill Clark

0.0

1944

We Dive at Dawn

Lt. Taylor RN

6.4

1943

The Sky’s the Limit

Tom

0.0

1943

The Young Mr. Pitt

William Wilberforce

5.7

1942

In Which We Serve

Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake

6.8

1942

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

Bobby Jessop

7.8

1942

The Big Blockade

Tom

6.5

1942

Cottage to Let

Flt·Lieut. Perry

6.7

1941

Old Bill and Son

Young Bill

6.5

1941

All Hands

Jack

8.0

1940

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Peter Colley as a Young Man

7.4

1939

Happy Family

Fred

0.0

1939

The Green Cockatoo

Jim Connor

5.9

1937

O.H.M.S.

Cpl. Bert Dawson

3.5

1937

Tudor Rose

Lord Guilford Dudley

8.1

1936

First Offence

Johnnie Penrose

0.0

1936

Broadway Gondolier

5.4

1935

Brown on Resolution

Albert Brown

5.8

1935

Royal Cavalcade

Young Enlistee

0.0

1935

Blind Justice

Ralph Summers

0.0

1935

Car of Dreams

Robert Miller

5.6

1935

Charing Cross Road

Tony

0.0

1935

Doctor's Orders

Ronnie Blake

6.0

1934

The Lash

Arthur Haughton

6.5

1934

A Political Party

Tony Smithers

0.0

1934

Those Were the Days

Bobby Poskett

7.5

1934

The Ghost Camera

Ernest Elton

6.1

1933

Britannia of Billingsgate

Fred Bolton

6.0

1933

The Midshipmaid

Golightly

0.0

1932

The Best of British Cinema

(5 episodes)

0.0