John Mills

John Mills

February 22, 1908 · 118 years old

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, genero…

Known For

33 titles
1
Gandhi

Gandhi

1982 · 3h 11m · Movie

The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.

8.0
2
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

1946 · 1h 58m · Movie

A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.

7.8
3
When the Wind Blows

When the Wind Blows

1986 · 1h 24m · Movie

A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war.

7.7
4
Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1939 · 1h 54m · Movie

An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.

7.9
5
Ryan's Daughter

Ryan's Daughter

1970 · 3h 20m · Movie

Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.

7.4
6
Who's That Girl

Who's That Girl

1987 · 1h 32m · Movie

The life of an uptight tax lawyer turns chaotic when he is asked to escort a young woman newly released from prison, who persuades him to help prove her innocence.

4.8
7
War and Peace

War and Peace

1956 · 3h 28m · Movie

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.

6.7
8
Hobson's Choice

Hobson's Choice

1954 · 1h 48m · Movie

Widower Henry Hobson refuses to let his three daughters get married because he doesn't want to pay settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.

7.7
9
In Which We Serve

In Which We Serve

1942 · 1h 55m · Movie

This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.

7.2
10
Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex

1958 · 2h 10m · Movie

During World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.

7.7
11
Cats

Cats

1998 · 2h 0m · Movie

"Jellicle" cats join for a Jellicle ball where they rejoice with their leader, Old Deuteronomy. One cat will be chosen to go to the "Heavyside Layer" and be reborn. The cats introduce themselves.

7.3
12
The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

1978 · 1h 39m · Movie

A grizzled American private detective in England investigates a complicated case of blackmail-turned-murder involving a rich but honest elderly general, his two loose socialite daughters, a pornographer, and a gangster.

5.8
13
King Rat

King Rat

1965 · 2h 14m · Movie

Fast-talking wheeler-dealer Corporal King is stuck in a Malaysian P.O.W. camp during World War II and uses bribery and larceny to take de-facto control of the camp.

7.5
14
This Happy Breed

This Happy Breed

1944 · 1h 55m · Movie

Just after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. They live an ordinary life throughout the years, but everything changes when World War II breaks out.

7.3
15
The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box

1966 · 1h 45m · Movie

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other, or can be made to have seemed to do so.

6.7
16
Dunkirk

Dunkirk

1958 · 2h 15m · Movie

A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force's 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany.

7.1
17
Oh! What a Lovely War

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969 · 2h 24m · Movie

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.

7.0
18
The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story

1955 · 1h 34m · Movie

Allied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle known as "Colditz".

6.9
19
Young Winston

Young Winston

1972 · 2h 4m · Movie

Complex family relationships, as well as a combat experience, form the personality of the future world-known politician.

6.7
20
The Thirty Nine Steps

The Thirty Nine Steps

1978 · 1h 42m · Movie

In March 1914, a mining engineer named Richard Hannay tries to prevent Prussian Agents from executing a political assassination designed to trigger World War I.

6.6
21
Scott of the Antarctic

Scott of the Antarctic

1948 · 1h 51m · Movie

The story of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's 1912 expedition and his quest to be the first to reach the South Pole.

7.0
22
Dr. Strange

Dr. Strange

1978 · 1h 33m · Movie

A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.

5.1
23
Sahara

Sahara

1983 · 1h 51m · Movie

Intent on winning a competition in place of her distinguished late father, beautiful young heiress Dale takes on the guise of a man and competes in his spot, embarking on a car race that crosses the unforgiving Sahara desert.

4.9
24
We Dive at Dawn

We Dive at Dawn

1943 · 1h 38m · Movie

All leave is cancelled so that a British submarine can be sent after a new German warship. They chase it so far that they have no fuel to get home.

6.7
25
Above Us the Waves

Above Us the Waves

1955 · 1h 32m · Movie

The attack by British submarines on the German battleship "Tirpitz" in a Norwegian fjord during World War II.

6.6
26
Murder with Mirrors

Murder with Mirrors

1985 · 1h 40m · Movie

When Carrie Louise Serrocold suspects that someone is trying to poison her, she sends for the one person who might be able to help, her old friend Miss Jane Marple.

6.3
27
Bombsight Stolen

Bombsight Stolen

1941 · 1h 30m · Movie

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.

6.7
28
The Lady and the Highwayman

The Lady and the Highwayman

1988 · 1h 30m · Movie

Swashbuckling tale of romance, betrayal, jealousy, banditry, murder, and court intrigue set in the 1660s, during the Restoration to the English throne of King Charles II.

5.5
29
Gypsy Girl

Gypsy Girl

1966 · 1h 45m · Movie

A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend ten years earlier.

6.8
30
The Truth About Spring

The Truth About Spring

1965 · 1h 42m · Movie

During the 1960s, a Caribbean sailor and his tomboy daughter search for buried treasure but run into unsavory characters and a cute lawyer who's after romance.

6.4
31
It's Great to Be Young!

It's Great to Be Young!

1956 · 1h 34m · Movie

It's heaven at Angel Hill Grammar School until the arrival of the new headmaster, Mr. Frome, who prohibits sixth formers from their beloved music-making. Dingle, a very unconventional music master, helps the students in their time...

6.4
32
Black Sheep of Whitehall

Black Sheep of Whitehall

1942 · 1h 20m · Movie

Professor Davis, who teaches at a correspondence school, discovers that a Nazi Agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America. The agent is posing as an economics expert seconded to the tr...

6.7
33
The Green Cockatoo

The Green Cockatoo

1937 · 1h 5m · Movie

A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing.

5.8