John Mills
Acting
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.
Born: February 22, 1908
Place of Birth: The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK
Known For
Tudor Rose
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
All Hands
From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators. This Ealing Studios production features well-known 1940s actor John Mills, playing a sailor whose girlfriend thoughtlessly blunders away vital wartime secrets. The consequences prove disastrous when his boat next leaves to cross the English Channel.
Martin Chuzzlewit
When old Martin Chuzzlewit disinherits his grandson, he falls prey to a host of rapacious relatives.
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
Trial by Combat
A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law into their own hands by executing criminals using medieval methods such as jousting.
Gandhi
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
The Valiant
Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the second World War , the two man crew of an Italian miniature submarine are captured and held prisoner whist the crew try and discover the nature of their mission!
Those Were the Days
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.
When the Wind Blows
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self – Interviewee
as Gentleman
as Self
as Self (archive)
as Arthur Rosehip
as Interviewee
as Gus the Theatre Cat
as Self
as Chairman
as Old King Norway
as Sir Edward Cleghorn
as Mr. Chuffey
as Jack the Ripper
as De Lacey
as Bernard Quigley
as Dapper man
as Brig. Dougal Munro
as Jarvis Lorry
as Faversham
as Self (uncredited)
as Sir Lawrence Dobson
as Self
as Montgomery Bell
as Self - Narrator
as Henry Rossiter
as Jim Bloggs (voice)
as Lewis Serrocold
as Henry Rossiter
as Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator
as Cambridge
as Lord Chelmsford
as Self
as Albert Collyer
as Bernard Quatermass
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
as Sir Henry Bartle Frere
as Sam Morrissey
as William Perkins
as The Man
as Scudder
as Thomas Lindmer
as Inspector Carson
as Self
as Monsignor Blaise Meredith
as Bertram MacDonald
as Colonel Bertie Cook
as Mike McAllister
as Thomas "The Elephant" Devon
as Cleon Doyle
as Canning
as General Kitchner
as Mr. Parker
as Michael
as Sir Philip MacDonald
as Uncle Alfred
as The Moorman (Colonel)
as Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
as Lord William Hamilton
as Inspector Franz Bulon
as Dundee
as Colonel Stuart Valois
as Wing Commander Hayes
as Ezra Fitton
as Masterman Finsbury
as Smedley-Taylor
as General Boyd
as Tommy Tyler
as Maitland
as Self
as Self
as Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
as Captain Morgan
as Jacko Palmer
as Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
as Father Michael Keogh
as Father
as Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)
as Barney
as Superintendent Graham
as Major Harvey
as Captain Anson
as Cpl Tubby Binns
as Dr. Howard Latimer
as Supt. Mike Halloran
as Dingle
as London Carriage Driver
as Platon Karataev
as Puncher Roberts
as John Hampden
as Commandant Fraser
as Albert Parkis
as Pat Reid
as William Mossop
as Phillip Davidson
as Terence Sullivan
as Self - Commentator
as Tom Denning
as Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong
as Bassett
as Alfred Polly
as Captain R.F. Scott R.N.
as Jim Ackland
as George Boswell
as Pip
as The Voice
as Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
as Jim Colter
as Billy Mitchell
as Lt. Taylor RN
as William Wilberforce
as Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake
as Bobby Jessop
as Tom
as Flt·Lieut. Perry
as Young Bill
as Jack
as Peter Colley as a Young Man
as Jim Connor
as Cpl. Bert Dawson
as Lord Guilford Dudley
as Johnnie Penrose
as Albert Brown
as Young Enlistee
as Robert Miller
as Ronnie Blake
as Tony Smithers
as Bobby Poskett
as Ernest Elton
as Fred Bolton
as Golightly