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John Mills Acting Filmography (125)

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010·Self – Interviewee

The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003

Bright Young Things
2003·Gentleman

Forever Ealing
2002·Self

Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
2002·Self (archive)

The Gentleman Thief
2001·Arthur Rosehip

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000·Self

A Profile of In Which We Serve
2000·Interviewee

Cats
1998·Gus the Theatre Cat

Bean
1997·Chairman

Hamlet
1996·Old King Norway

The Grotesque
1995·Sir Edward Cleghorn

Deadly Advice
1994·Jack the Ripper

Frankenstein
1993·De Lacey

The Big Freeze
1993·Dapper man

Harnessing Peacocks
1993·Bernard Quigley

Night of the Fox
1990·Brig. Dougal Munro
Ending Up
1989·Bernard

The Lady and the Highwayman
1988·Sir Lawrence Dobson

One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1988·Self (uncredited)

Who's That Girl
1987·Montgomery Bell

When the Wind Blows
1986·Jim Bloggs (voice)

The Wind and the Bomb
1986

Murder with Mirrors
1985·Lewis Serrocold
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
1985·Self

The Masks of Death
1984·Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator

Sahara
1983·Cambridge
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
1983·Self

Gandhi
1982·Lord Chelmsford

The Quatermass Conclusion
1979·Prof. Bernard Quatermass

Zulu Dawn
1979·Sir Henry Bartle Frere

The Big Sleep
1978·Inspector Carson

The Thirty Nine Steps
1978·Scudder

Dr. Strange
1978·Thomas Lindmer

The Devil's Advocate
1977·Monsignor Blaise Meredith

Trial by Combat
1976·Colonel Bertie Cook

The Human Factor
1975·Mike McAllister

Oklahoma Crude
1973·Cleon Doyle

Young Winston
1972·General Kitchner

Lady Caroline Lamb
1972·Canning

Dulcima
1971·Mr. Parker

Ryan's Daughter
1970·Michael

Adam's Woman
1970·Sir Philip MacDonald

Oh! What a Lovely War
1969·Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig

Run Wild, Run Free
1969·The Moorman (Colonel)

Emma Hamilton
1968·Lord William Hamilton

A Black Veil for Lisa
1968·Inspector Franz Bulon

Chuka
1967·Colonel Stuart Valois

Africa: Texas Style!
1967·Wing Commander Hayes

The Wrong Box
1966·Masterman Finsbury

The Family Way
1966·Ezra Fitton

King Rat
1965·Smedley-Taylor

Operation Crossbow
1965·General Boyd

The Truth About Spring
1965·Tommy Tyler

The Chalk Garden
1964·Maitland

Tiara Tahiti
1962·Lt. Col. Clifford Southey

The Valiant
1962·Captain Morgan

The Singer Not the Song
1961·Father Michael Keogh

Flame in the Streets
1961·Jacko Palmer

The Parent Trap
1961·Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited)

Tunes of Glory
1960·Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)

Swiss Family Robinson
1960·Father

Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
1960

Tiger Bay
1959·Superintendent Graham

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
1959·Barney

Ice Cold in Alex
1958·Captain Anson

Dunkirk
1958·Cpl Tubby Binns

I Was Monty's Double
1958·Major Harvey

Town on Trial
1957·Supt. Mike Halloran

The Vicious Circle
1957·Dr. Howard Latimer

War and Peace
1956·Platon Karataev

The Baby and the Battleship
1956·Puncher Roberts

Around the World in 80 Days
1956·London Carriage Driver

It's Great to be Young!
1956·Dingle

Above Us the Waves
1955·Commandant Fraser

The Colditz Story
1955·Pat Reid

The End of the Affair
1955·Albert Parkis

Escapade
1955·John Hampden

Hobson's Choice
1954·William Mossop

The Long Memory
1953·Phillip Davidson

The Gentle Gunman
1952·Terence Sullivan

The Way to Wimbledon
1952·Self - Commentator

Mr. Denning Drives North
1951·Tom Denning

Morning Departure
1950·Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong

The Rocking Horse Winner
1949·Bassett

The History of Mr. Polly
1949·Alfred Polly

Scott of the Antarctic
1948·Captain R.F. Scott R.N.

The October Man
1947·Jim Ackland

So Well Remembered
1947·George Boswell

Great Expectations
1946·Pip

Land of Promise
1946·The Voice

The Way to the Stars
1945·Pilot Officer Peter Penrose

Waterloo Road
1945·Jim Colter
Total War in Britain
1945·Narrator (voice)

This Happy Breed
1944·Billy Mitchell
Victory Wedding
1944·Bill Clark
Information Please
1944·British Flyer

We Dive at Dawn
1943·Lt. Taylor RN
The Sky’s the Limit
1943·Tom

In Which We Serve
1942·Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake

The Black Sheep of Whitehall
1942·Bobby Jessop

The Big Blockade
1942·Tom

The Young Mr. Pitt
1942·William Wilberforce

Cottage to Let
1941·Flt·Lieut. Perry

Old Bill and Son
1941·Young Bill

All Hands
1940·Jack

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939·Peter Colley as a Young Man
Happy Family
1939·Fred

The Green Cockatoo
1937·Jim Connor

O.H.M.S.
1937·Cpl. Bert Dawson

Tudor Rose
1936·Lord Guilford Dudley

First Offence
1936·Johnnie Penrose

Royal Cavalcade
1935·Young Enlistee

Car of Dreams
1935·Robert Miller

Brown on Resolution
1935·Albert Brown

Broadway Gondolier
1935
Charing Cross Road
1935·Tony
Blind Justice
1935·Ralph Summers

Those Were the Days
1934·Bobby Poskett

Doctor's Orders
1934·Ronnie Blake

A Political Party
1934·Tony Smithers
The Lash
1934·Arthur Haughton
Britannia of Billingsgate
1933·Fred Bolton

The Ghost Camera
1933·Ernest Elton

The Midshipmaid
1932·Golightly