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

20 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
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
18
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
19
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
20
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
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