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.
Bean
Chairman
Gandhi
Lord Chelmsford
Frankenstein
De Lacey
The Big Sleep
Inspector Carson
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Self
When the Wind Blows
Jim Bloggs (voice)
Oh! What a Lovely War
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
Murder with Mirrors
Lewis Serrocold
War and Peace
Platon Karataev
The Human Factor
Mike McAllister
The Green Cockatoo
Jim Connor
Cats
Gus the Theatre Cat
Who's That Girl
Montgomery Bell
In Which We Serve
Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake
The Masks of Death
Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator
The Quatermass Conclusion
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Above Us the Waves
Commandant Fraser
King Rat
Smedley-Taylor
Operation Crossbow
General Boyd
Great Expectations
Pip
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Peter Colley as a Young Man
The Thirty Nine Steps
Scudder
Tunes of Glory
Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)
Tiger Bay
Superintendent Graham
The Rocking Horse Winner
Bassett
Scott of the Antarctic
Captain R.F. Scott R.N.
We Dive at Dawn
Lt. Taylor RN
Mr. Denning Drives North
Tom Denning
The Wrong Box
Masterman Finsbury
The Way to the Stars
Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
Ice Cold in Alex
Captain Anson
Hobson's Choice
William Mossop
Ryan's Daughter
Michael
The Colditz Story
Pat Reid
Chuka
Colonel Stuart Valois
The Chalk Garden
Maitland
Young Winston
General Kitchner
Morning Departure
Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong
Swiss Family Robinson
Father
Dunkirk
Cpl Tubby Binns
The October Man
Jim Ackland
Sahara
Cambridge
Waterloo Road
Jim Colter
Emma Hamilton
Lord William Hamilton
The Family Way
Ezra Fitton
This Happy Breed
Billy Mitchell
The Long Memory
Phillip Davidson
Dulcima
Mr. Parker
Dr. Strange
Thomas Lindmer
The Gentle Gunman
Terence Sullivan
Cottage to Let
Flt·Lieut. Perry
The History of Mr. Polly
Alfred Polly
Night of the Fox
Brig. Dougal Munro
The End of the Affair
Albert Parkis
The Baby and the Battleship
Puncher Roberts
I Was Monty's Double
Major Harvey
Trial by Combat
Colonel Bertie Cook
The Lady and the Highwayman
Sir Lawrence Dobson
The Singer Not the Song
Father Michael Keogh
Run Wild, Run Free
The Moorman (Colonel)
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Barney
Town on Trial
Supt. Mike Halloran
The Vicious Circle
Dr. Howard Latimer
A Black Veil for Lisa
Inspector Franz Bulon
Tiara Tahiti
Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
Royal Cavalcade
Young Enlistee
Oklahoma Crude
Cleon Doyle
The Valiant
Captain Morgan
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Bobby Jessop
The Ghost Camera
Ernest Elton
The Truth About Spring
Tommy Tyler
Car of Dreams
Robert Miller
O.H.M.S.
Cpl. Bert Dawson
Escapade
John Hampden
Africa: Texas Style!
Wing Commander Hayes
Those Were the Days
Bobby Poskett
Forever Ealing
Self
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
The Big Blockade
Tom
The Way to Wimbledon
Self - Commentator
So Well Remembered
George Boswell
Lady Caroline Lamb
Canning
Hamlet
Old King Norway
The Big Freeze
Dapper man
Flame in the Streets
Jacko Palmer
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Self (uncredited)
The Devil's Advocate
Monsignor Blaise Meredith
Brown on Resolution
Albert Brown
Adam's Woman
Sir Philip MacDonald
Broadway Gondolier
The Grotesque
Sir Edward Cleghorn
The Midshipmaid
Golightly
Tudor Rose
Lord Guilford Dudley
Zulu Dawn
Sir Henry Bartle Frere
Doctor's Orders
Ronnie Blake
Old Bill and Son
Young Bill
A Political Party
Tony Smithers
Bright Young Things
Gentleman
Harnessing Peacocks
Bernard Quigley
Around the World in 80 Days
London Carriage Driver
First Offence
Johnnie Penrose
The Parent Trap
Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)
The Young Mr. Pitt
William Wilberforce
It's Great to be Young!
Dingle
A Profile of In Which We Serve
Interviewee
Deadly Advice
Jack the Ripper
Land of Promise
The Voice
All Hands
Jack
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Self – Interviewee
The Wind and the Bomb
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
Self (archive)
Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
The Gentleman Thief
Arthur Rosehip