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John Mills
Catalogued films 92Director 1Actor 91
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. He excelled on camera as an appealing British everyman who often portrayed guileless, wounded war heroes. In 1971, he received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Ryan's Daughter. For his work in film Mills was knighted by Elizabeth II in 1976. In 2002, he received a BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and was named a Disney Legend by The Walt Disney Company.
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Forever Ealing
The Gentleman Thief
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Cats
Deadly Advice
Harnessing Peacocks
The Big Freeze
Night of the Fox- ENEnding Up
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
The Lady and the Highwayman
Who's That Girl
When the Wind Blows
Murder with Mirrors
Sahara- MRMr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
Gandhi
Zulu Dawn
The Thirty Nine Steps
Dr. Strange
The Big Sleep
The Devil's Advocate
Trial by Combat
The Human Factor
Oklahoma Crude
Lady Caroline Lamb
Young Winston
Dulcima
Adam's Woman
Ryan's Daughter
Run Wild, Run Free
Oh! What a Lovely War
Chuka
Africa: Texas Style!
The Family Way
The Wrong Box
King Rat
Operation Crossbow
The Truth About Spring
The Chalk Garden
Tiara Tahiti
Flame in the Streets
The Singer Not the Song
Swiss Family Robinson
Tunes of Glory
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Tiger Bay
I Was Monty's Double
Ice Cold in Alex
Dunkirk
The Vicious Circle
Town on Trial
War and Peace
The Baby and the Battleship
Escapade
Above Us the Waves
The End of the Affair
The Colditz Story
Hobson's Choice
The Long Memory
The Gentle Gunman
Morning Departure
The Rocking Horse Winner
The History of Mr. Polly
Scott of the Antarctic
The October Man
So Well Remembered
Great Expectations
Land of Promise
The Way to the Stars
Waterloo Road
This Happy Breed
We Dive at Dawn
In Which We Serve
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Cottage to Let
Old Bill and Son
The Green Cockatoo
O.H.M.S.
Tudor Rose
First Offence
Brown on Resolution- BLBlind Justice
Car of Dreams
Charing Cross Road
Doctor's Orders
The Lash
A Political Party
Those Were the Days
The Midshipmaid