Biography: life and films
John Mills was an English actor and producer whose birth name was Lewis Ernest Watts Mills. He was born in North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK on 22nd February 1908 and died in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK on 23rd April 2005, aged 97.His best films as an actor include Sam Wood's Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), David Lean's Great Expectations (1946), Hobson's Choice (1954), Gerald Thomas's crime-thriller The Vicious Circle (1957) and J. Lee Thompson's Ice Cold in Alex (1958).
John Mills appeared in 106 films, supplied the music for 2 films and directed 1 film.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Roy Ward Baker (5 films), David Lean (4), Edward Dmytryk (3), Anthony Asquith (3), Ronald Neame (2), Richard Attenborough (2), Philip Leacock (2), Norman Lee (2), Leslie Norman (2), John Guillermin (2), J. Lee Thompson (2), Christian-Jaque (2), Charles Frend (2), Bryan Forbes (2), Bernard Vorhaus (2), Basil Dearden (2), Anthony Pelissier (2) and Albert de Courville (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (57 films), comedy (21), War (21), comedy-drama (15), Thriller (15), romance (14), comedy-romance (9), history (8), crime-thriller (5), Biography (4), Western (3) and comedy-thriller (2).
Our average rating for John Mills over all films is: 3.0
Filmography
Key: a = actor; m = musician; d = director
The Big Broadcast (1932) [a]
The Midshipmaid (1932) [a]
Britannia of Billingsgate (1933) [a]
The Ghost Camera (1933) [a]
A Political Party (1934) [a]
Blind Justice (1934) [a]
Doctor's Orders (1934) [a]
The Lash (1934) [a]
The River Wolves (1934) [a]
Those Were the Days (1934) [a]
Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934) [a]
Brown on Resolution (1935) [a]
Car of Dreams (1935) [a]
Charing Cross Road (1935) [a]
Royal Cavalcade (1935) [a]
The First Offence (1936) [a]
Tudor Rose (1936) [a]
O.H.M.S. (1937) [a]
Sing as You Swing (1937) [a]
The Green Cockatoo (1937) [a]
Keep Punching (1939) [a]
The Big Blockade (1940) [a]
Old Bill and Son (1941) [a]
Rhythm Parade (1942) [a]
The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942) [a]
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) [a]
He's My Guy (1943) [a]
Reveille with Beverly (1943) [a]
Cowboy Canteen (1944) [a]
The Way to the Stars (1945) [a]
So Well Remembered (1947) [a]
Scott of the Antarctic (1948) [a]
The History of Mr. Polly (1949) [a]
Morning Departure (1950) [a]
The Rocking Horse Winner (1950) [a]
Mr. Denning Drives North (1952) [a]
The Gentle Gunman (1952) [a]
Above Us the Waves (1955) [a]
Escapade (1955) [a]
The End of the Affair (1955) [a]
It's Great to Be Young! (1956) [a]
The Baby and the Battleship (1956) [a]
Dunkirk (1958) [a]
I Was Monty's Double (1958) [a]
The Big Beat (1958) [a]
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959) [a]
Tiger Bay (1959) [a]
Swiss Family Robinson (1960) [a]
Tunes of Glory (1960) [a]
Flame in the Streets (1961) [a]
The Singer Not the Song (1961) [a]
The Valiant (1962) [a]
Tiara Tahiti (1962) [a]
The Chalk Garden (1964) [a]
The Truth About Spring (1964) [a]
King Rat (1965) [a]
Operation Crossbow (1965) [a]
Sky West and Crooked (1966) [d]
The Family Way (1966) [a]
Africa: Texas Style (1967) [a]
Chuka (1967) [a]
La Morte non ha sesso (1968) [a]
Le Calde notti di Lady Hamilton (1968) [a]
Run Wild, Run Free (1969) [a]
Adam's Woman (1970) [a]
Dulcima (1971) [a]
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972) [a]
Young Winston (1972) [a]
Oklahoma Crude (1973) [a]
The 'Human' Factor (1975) [a]
Trial by Combat (1976) [a]
Des Teufels Advokat (1977) [a]
The Big Sleep (1978) [a]
The Thirty Nine Steps (1978) [a]
A Touch of the Sun (1979) [a]
Zulu Dawn (1979) [a]
Gandhi (1982) [a]
Sahara (1983) [a]
Just Us (1986) [m]
When the Wind Blows (1986) [a]
Who's That Girl (1987) [a]
Neurotic Cabaret (1990) [m]
Night of the Fox (1990) [a]
The Big Freeze (1993) [a]
Deadly Advice (1994) [a]
The Grotesque (1995) [a]
Bean (1997) [a]
Bright Young Things (2003) [a]
Kafka's tortuous trial of love
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
The best of Russian cinema
