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Real name: |
John Lewis Ernest Watts Mills |
| Birthdate: |
February 22, 1908 |
| Date of death: |
April 23, 2005 |
| Age: |
97 years |
| Country: |
 United Kingdom
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| Horoscope: |
Pisces |
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John Mills Nominations & Awards
Academy Awards
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- Best Supporting Actor WINNER
Venice Film Festival
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- Volpi Cup - Best Actor WINNER
Golden Globes Awards
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- Best Supporting Actor WINNER
BAFTA
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- Best Supporting Actor NOMINATED
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- Best British Actor NOMINATED
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- Best British Actor NOMINATED
San Sebastián Film Festival
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- Silver Shell - Best Actor WINNER
John Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, better known as John Mills, was an British. He has won an Academy Awards, an Golden Globes Awards and an Venice International Film Festival. He's known for Gandhi (1982), Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and The Big Sleep (1978).
All Movies of John Mills
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In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier whe...
Character:
Himself - Interviewee
(archive footage)
2010
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The story of Jeremy Gilley's attempts to persuade the global community via the United Nations to sanction officially a day without conflict; a ceasefire day; a global day of Peace.
Character:
Self
2004
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2003
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Character:
Chairman
(as Sir John Mills)
1997
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When Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) returns from his studies to find his father dead, and his mother married to his uncle, he grows suspicious. After being visited by his dead father as a ghost, his suspicions are confirmed and Hamlet f...
Character:
Old Norway
1996
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Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried, maids. Jodie has feelings for the local doctor, a man much older than her, for which her mother str...
1994
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6 episodes. "Martin Chuzzlewit" is the story of a reprehensible English clan grasping after their patriarch's money.
1994
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An American officer on a Landing Craft carrying plans for the Allied invasion of Europe in Normandy takes part on landing maneuvers, his craft was attacked and sunk by German EBoats. and he finds himself on German occupied Jersey ...
1990
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TV Miniseries. 3 Episodes. Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days. After betting his entire fortune, he takes his new butler (a man hoping for a quite life) on a tour of ...
1989
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Nikki Finn (Madonna) is a street-smart girl who is falsely accused of murdering her boyfriend and is sent to jail. After getting released, she meets serious lawyer Loudon Trott (Griffin Dunne), who is supposed to make sure she get...
Character:
Montgomery Bell
(as Sir John Mills)
1987
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Two-part, four-hour followup to "A Woman of Substance" with Deborah Kerr, now playing Emma Harte at age 80 in the last winter of her life and dealing with her granddaughter Paula, as well as her respected advisor Henry R...
Character:
Henry Rossiter
1 episode, 1987
1986
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Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There has been some mysterious murders, and there are no visible causes for the deaths. At the same time Holmes gets this case, Graf Ud...
1984
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A Woman of Substance charts the life of Emma Harte, from kitchen maid at the beginning of the 20th Century, to respected business woman and Grandmother in the 1980's. From humble beginnings Emma Harte starts her business with a sm...
Character:
Henry Rossiter
3 episodes, 1985
1984
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A beautiful American heiress (Shields) living during the time of the roaring twenties enters an international car race that takes place in the middle of the treacherous Sahara Desert. During the course of the event, she is kidnapp...
Character:
Cambridge
1983
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Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Fed up with the unjust political system, he j...
Character:
The Viceroy
1982
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In 1879 South Africa, the administrators of the British Cape Colony have designs to eliminate the Zulus as a hindrance to their colonial economy. To that end, the British present King Cetshwayo with an impossible ultimatum to prov...
Character:
Sir Henry Bartle Frere
1979
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TV Series (1979-1988). 9 seasons. 112 episodes. A British anthology of mystery, suspense, horror and black comedy, highlighted by plot twists and surprise endings (in the early seasons, all by Roald Dahl), with lots of prestigious...
Character:
Sam Morrissey
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3 episodes, 1980-1982
1979
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Filmmaker Michael Winner switched the setting of Raymond Chandler's classic mystery novel from 1940's Los Angeles to 1970's London. When wealthy General Sternwood is blackmailed, he hires private detective Philip Marlowe to help h...
Character:
Inspector Carson
1978
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A group of British aristocrats, who call themselves "Knights of Avalon", isn't content with the system of justice and executes judgment themselves. Instead of just killing the people they believe guilty, they give 'em a ...
1976
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When Arthur Davis, a junior bachelor in the British secret service's African section, is seen taking a file with him -to meet his girlfriend Cynthia- the brass fears he may be the leak to Moskow, and allows Dr. Percival to termina...
Character:
Mike McAllister
1975
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Four people, who worked together during World War II, were known as "The Zoo Club" because their code names were of animals. Thirty years later, they still work on various adventures.
1974
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1973
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A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron.
Character:
Canning
1972
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This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parli
Character:
General Kitchener
1972
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A farmer who has the reputation of drinking most of his money away, lives on farm which is in a poor state of repair. A pretty young girl, Dulcima, takes pity on him and decides to help him by cleaning the place.
1971
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David Lean's epic tale of forbidden love, set during the Irish Rebellion of 1916 tells the story of Charles Shaughnessy (Robert Mitchum), a kind and gentle widower, who falls in love with and marries the much younger Rosy (Sarah M...
Character:
Michael
1970
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A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the mo...
Character:
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
1969
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When a narcotics detective finds out that his beautiful wife--who is an ex-criminal--is cheating on him, he hires a professional hitman to bump her off. However, things don't go quite according to plan.
Character:
Inspector Franz Bulon
1968
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Compassionate look at the troubles of two young newlyweds, who's marriage has yet to be consummated.
Character:
Ezra Fitton
1966
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A tontine is established for a dozen children, a tontine being a kind of bet/insurance, money is put in for each to grow with interest and the last survivor is to get the lot. We watch the group dwindle until only two brothers are...
Character:
Masterman Finsbury
1966
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Tommy Tyler a lazy Caribbean sailor and his tom-boy daughter, Spring are out to search for a buried treasure. Tommy brings aboard William Ashton, a young lawyer to help with the search. Ashton turns out to be handy when they encou...
1965
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Based on actual historical events and characters, this World War II spy thriller focuses on the development of Hitler's secret rocket weapons, the V.1 and V.2 flying bombs, and the Allied efforts to destroy them.
Character:
General Boyd
1965
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George Segal is the mastermind of all black market operations in a Japanese prison camp. He is called "King Rat" because of his breeding of rodents to serve as food for his emaciated fellow prisoners. British officer Jam...
Character:
Smedley-Taylor
1965
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A grandmother seeks a governess for her 16 year old granddaughter, Laurel, who manages to drive away each and every one so far by exposing their past, with a record of three in one week! When an applicant with a mysterious past ma...
1964
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Character:
Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
1962
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A union leader in a large company tries to win equal rights for the handful of West Indian workers at the company, but finds it is an uphill battle. After being successful, and rightly proud of his efforts, he finds that he and hi...
1961
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Hayley Mills plays twins who, unknown to their divorced parents, meet at a summer camp. Products of single parent households, they switch places (surprise!) so as to meet the parent they never knew, and then contrive to reunite th
1961
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The Disney touch is all over this grand, colorful version of the Johann Wyss adventure of a European family set off for the new world of New Guinea. The film opens on a ship jostled and torn by a raging storm while a family strugg...
1960
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Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During the Second World War, as Second-in-Command, he was made acting Commanding Officer. Now the regiment has returned to Scotland, and a new ...
Character:
Lt. Col. Basil Barrow
1960
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A 12 year old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
1959
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One of the most significant moments in the history of British warfare (in both the best and worst sense) is given reverent but reserved treatment in Dunkirk. The film takes place during the 1940 evacuation of Allied troops across ...
Character:
Corporal 'Tubby' Binns
1958
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A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria, but the probl...
1958
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Mr. Dingle is the popular music teacher in an English school, but when the headmaster threatens to close down the school band (partly because of Dingle's fondness of more modern music) then the pupils have to come to his assistanc...
1956
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After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts t...
Character:
Puncher Roberts
1956
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English nobleman Phileas Fogg, a very strict and emotionless man, gets wound up in a bet at his gentlemen's club: He has to prove that it is possible to travel around the whole world in only 80 days. Together with his new butler P...
1956
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Set against the backdrop of Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, King Vidor's adaptation of the Tolstoy sprawling classic stars Henry Fonda as Pierre Bezhukov. Despite the vast scope of the author's detailed portrait of the classes...
Character:
Platon Karataev
1956
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The greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. Being anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack it with any chance of success. But the navy trains a special commando to attack it, using li...
Character:
Cmdr. Fraser
1955
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Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German POW camp housed in a Medieval castle.
Character:
Pat Reid
1955
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In wartorn London Maurice Bendrix falls in love with neighbor Sarah Miles. They begin an illicit romance behind Sarah's husband's back. While war does not last forever, neither does love in this existentialist tale.
Character:
Albert Parkis
1955
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David Lean backs up vicious wit with tender romance in this thrilling adaptation of Harold Brighouse's play. As Henry Hobson, a tyrannical bootshop owner, Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty) is a comical drunk of Falstaffian p...
1953
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When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the bod...
Character:
Tom Denning
1952
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The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
Character:
Lieut. Commander Armstrong
1950
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Captain Scott is given the men, but not the funds, to go on a second expedition to the Antarctic. As his wife works on a bust of him, she tells him that she's "not the least jealous" that he's going to the Antarctic agai...
Character:
Captain R.F. Scott R.N.
1948
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On the day that World War II ends in Europe, Mayor George Boswell recalls events of the previous 25 years in his home town of Browdley. As councilman and newspaper editor George has fought hard to better working and living conditi...
Character:
George Boswell
1947
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1947
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Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys under -probably unnecessary- threat of a ho...
Character:
Pip
1946
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Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort of life is led by the family through the years with average num...
1944
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In 1783, the English Parliament is led by the coalition of Charles James Fox and Lord North. King George III, who dislikes them, is pleased when they begin to lose power and decides to install William Pitt, the Younger as prime mi...
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