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.

Filmography

• 2003Bright Young Things — Gentleman
• 2003The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
• 2001The Gentleman Thief — Arthur Rosehip
• 2000A Profile of In Which We Serve — Interviewee
• 1998Cats — Gus the Theatre Cat
• 1997Bean — Chairman
• 1996Hamlet — Old King Norway
• 1995The Grotesque — Sir Edward Cleghorn
• 1994Deadly Advice — Jack the Ripper
• Martin Chuzzlewit — Mr Chuffey
• 1993Frankenstein — De Lacey
• 1993Harnessing Peacocks — Bernard Quigley
• 1993The Big Freeze — Dapper man
• 1990Night of the Fox — Brig. Dougal Munro
• Perfect Scoundrels — Praeger
• A Tale of Two Cities — Jarvis Lorry
• Around the World in 80 Days — Faversham
• 1989Ending Up — Bernard
• 1988The Lady and the Highwayman — Sir Lawrence Dobson
• Hold the Dream — Henry Rossiter
• 1987Who's That Girl — Montgomery Bell
• 1986The Wind and the Bomb
• 1986When the Wind Blows — Jim Bloggs (voice)
• A Woman of Substance — Henry Rossiter
• 1985Murder with Mirrors — Lewis Serrocold
• 1984The Masks of Death — Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator
• 1983Sahara — Cambridge
• 1982Gandhi — Lord Chelmsford
• Hotel
• Young at Heart — Albert Collyer
• Quatermass — Bernard Quatermass
• Tales of the Unexpected — Sam Morrissey, William Perkins, The Man
• 1979The Quatermass Conclusion — Prof. Bernard Quatermass
• 1979Zulu Dawn — Sir Henry Bartle Frere
• 1978Dr. Strange — Thomas Lindmer
• 1978The Big Sleep — Inspector Carson
• The South Bank Show
• 1978The Thirty Nine Steps — Scudder
• 1977The Devil's Advocate — Monsignor Blaise Meredith
• The Love Boat — Bertram MacDonald
• 1976Trial by Combat — Colonel Bertie Cook
• 1975The Human Factor — Mike McAllister
• The Zoo Gang — Thomas "The Elephant" Devon
• 1973Oklahoma Crude — Cleon Doyle
• 1972Lady Caroline Lamb — Canning
• 1972Young Winston — General Kitchner
• 1971Dulcima — Mr. Parker
• 1970Adam's Woman — Sir Philip MacDonald
• Nanny and the Professor — Uncle Alfred
• 1970Ryan's Daughter — Michael
• 1969Oh! What a Lovely War — Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
• 1969Run Wild, Run Free — The Moorman (Colonel)
• 1968A Black Veil for Lisa — Inspector Franz Bulon
• 1968Emma Hamilton — Lord William Hamilton
• 1967Africa: Texas Style! — Wing Commander Hayes
• 1967Chuka — Colonel Stuart Valois
• Dundee and the Culhane — Dundee
• 1966Sky West and Crooked — Director
• 1966The Family Way — Ezra Fitton
• 1966The Wrong Box — Masterman Finsbury
• 1965King Rat — Smedley-Taylor
• 1965Operation Crossbow — General Boyd
• 1965The Truth About Spring — Tommy Tyler
• 1964The Chalk Garden — Maitland
• 1962The Valiant — Captain Morgan
• 1962Tiara Tahiti — Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
• 1961Flame in the Streets — Jacko Palmer
• 1961The Parent Trap — Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
• 1961The Singer Not the Song — Father Michael Keogh
• 1960Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
• 1960Swiss Family Robinson — Father
• 1960Tunes of Glory — Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)
• 1959Summer of the Seventeenth Doll — Barney
• 1959Tiger Bay — Superintendent Graham
• 1958Dunkirk — Cpl Tubby Binns
• 1958I Was Monty's Double — Major Harvey
• 1958Ice Cold in Alex — Captain Anson
• 1957The Vicious Circle — Dr. Howard Latimer
• 1957Town on Trial — Supt. Mike Halloran
• 1956Around the World in 80 Days — London Carriage Driver
• 1956It's Great to be Young! — Dingle
• 1956The Baby and the Battleship — Puncher Roberts
• 1956The Letter — Robert Crosbie
• 1956War and Peace — Platon Karataev
• 1955Above Us the Waves — Commandant Fraser
• 1955Escapade — John Hampden
• 1955The Colditz Story — Pat Reid
• 1955The End of the Affair — Albert Parkis
• 1954Hobson's Choice — William Mossop
• Producers' Showcase — Robert Crosbie
• 1953The Long Memory — Phillip Davidson
• 1952The Gentle Gunman — Terence Sullivan
• 1951Mr. Denning Drives North — Tom Denning
• 1950Morning Departure — Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong
• 1949The History of Mr. Polly — Alfred Polly
• 1949The Rocking Horse Winner — Bassett, Producer
• 1948Scott of the Antarctic — Captain R.F. Scott R.N.
• 1947So Well Remembered — George Boswell
• 1947The October Man — Jim Ackland
• 1946Great Expectations — Pip
• 1946Land of Promise — The Voice
• 1945The Way to the Stars — Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
• 1945Total War in Britain — Narrator (voice)
• 1945Waterloo Road — Jim Colter
• 1944Information Please — British Flyer
• 1944This Happy Breed — Billy Mitchell
• 1944Victory Wedding — Bill Clark
• 1943The Sky’s the Limit — Tom
• 1943We Dive at Dawn — Lt. Taylor RN
• 1942In Which We Serve — Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake
• 1942The Big Blockade — Tom
• 1942The Black Sheep of Whitehall — Bobby Jessop
• 1942The Young Mr. Pitt — William Wilberforce
• 1941Cottage to Let — Flt·Lieut. Perry
• 1941Old Bill and Son — Young Bill
• 1940All Hands — Jack
• 1939Goodbye, Mr. Chips — Peter Colley as a Young Man
• 1939Happy Family — Fred
• 1937O.H.M.S. — Cpl. Bert Dawson
• 1937The Green Cockatoo — Jim Connor
• 1936First Offence — Johnnie Penrose
• 1936Tudor Rose — Lord Guilford Dudley
• 1935Blind Justice — Ralph Summers
• 1935Broadway Gondolier
• 1935Brown on Resolution — Albert Brown
• 1935Car of Dreams — Robert Miller
• 1935Charing Cross Road — Tony
• 1935Royal Cavalcade — Young Enlistee
• 1934A Political Party — Tony Smithers
• 1934Doctor's Orders — Ronnie Blake
• 1934The Lash — Arthur Haughton
• 1934Those Were the Days — Bobby Poskett
• 1933Britannia of Billingsgate — Fred Bolton
• 1933The Ghost Camera — Ernest Elton
• 1932The Midshipmaid — Golightly

Appearances as themselves (20)

• Talking Pictures — Self (archive footage)
• 2010Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff — Self – Interviewee
• 2002Forever Ealing — Self
• 2002Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making — Self (archive)
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self
• 2000Sir John Mills' Moving Memories — Self
• Parkinson — Self
• Clive Anderson All Talk — Self
• 1988One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage — Self (uncredited)
• The Best of British Cinema — Self - Narrator
• The Dame Edna Experience — Self
• 1985The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio — Self
• 1983Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi — Self
• Wogan — Self
• An Audience with... — Self
• Late Night Story — self
• The American Film Institute Salute to ... — Self
• The Danny Kaye Show — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• 1952The Way to Wimbledon — Self - Commentator