John Mills

Gender: Male
Born: 22nd February 1908
Died: 23rd April 2005
Nationality: England
TV programs: Quatermass, Dundee and the Culhane, A Woman of Substance, Young At Heart, Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special, The Zoo Gang
Movies: Great Expectations, In Which We Serve, Oh! What a Lovely War, Ryan's Daughter, Scott of the Antarctic, Swiss Family Robinson, The Colditz Story, The Long Memory, The Thirty-Nine Steps, The Wrong Box, Tunes of Glory, Young Winston, Those Were the Days, The Big Blockade, The Masks of Death, The Valiant, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, We Dive at Dawn, Dunkirk, Sahara, The Way to the Stars, Waterloo Road, The Black Sheep of Whitehall, Hobson's Choice, The Family Way, Tiara Tahiti, Ice-Cold in Alex, Above Us the Waves, Operation Crossbow, Tiger Bay, When the Wind Blows, The End of the Affair, I Was Monty's Double, The Gentle Gunman, Cottage to Let, Brown on Resolution, The 'Human' Factor, CATS, Car of Dreams, The October Man, So Well Remembered, The History of Mr. Polly, The Truth About Spring, The Vicious Circle, Flame in the Streets, Hamlet, The Rocking Horse Winner, This Happy Breed, Run Wild, Run Free, The Singer Not the Song, Murder with Mirrors, Gandhi, The Big Sleep, The Lady and the Highwayman, Morning Departure, Bright Young Things, Chuka, King Rat, Who's That Girl?, War and Peace, Around the World in Eighty Days, A Tale of Two Cities, Zulu Dawn, Africa: Texas Style!, The Ghost Camera, Trial by Combat, A Political Party, Doctor's Orders, Charing Cross Road, Adam's Woman, The Lash, O.H.M.S., The First Offence, Old Bill and Son, Mr. Denning Drives North, Emma Hamilton, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Oklahoma Crude, Bean, Gandhi: Bonus Material

Sir John Mills CBE (22 February 1908 – 23 April 2005), born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, was an English actor who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.

Mills was born at the Watts Naval School in North Elmham, Norfolk, England, and grew up in Belton, where his father was the headmaster of the village school and in Felixstowe, Suffolk, where he lived in a modest house in Ham's Road. He was educated at Norwich High School for Boys, where it is said that his initials can still be seen carved into the brickwork on the side of the building in Upper St. Giles Street. He made his acting debut on the stage of the Sir John Leman School in Beccles in a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream when he played the part of Puck. Upon leaving school he worked as a clerk at a corn merchants in Ipswich.

Mills took an early interest in acting, making his professional debut at the London Hippodrome in The Five O'Clock Girl in 1929. He also starred in the Noël Coward revue Words and Music. He made his film debut in The Midshipmaid (1932), and appeared as Colley in the 1939 film version of Goodbye, Mr Chips, opposite Robert Donat.

In September 1939, at the start of World War II,

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