John Mills
Film

John Mills

Section Title: Film
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Year	Title	Role	Notes

1932	The Midshipmaid	Golightly

1933	The Ghost Camera	Ernest Elton

Britannia of Billingsgate	Fred Bolton

1934	A Political Party	Tony Smithers

The River Wolves	Peter Farrell

Those Were the Days	Bobby Poskett

The Lash	Arthur Haughton

Blind Justice	Ralph Summers

Doctor's Orders	Ronnie Blake

1935	Car of Dreams	Robert Miller

Royal Cavalcade	Young Enlistee

Brown on Resolution	Albert Brown	(later reissued in the UK as Forever England)

Charing Cross Road	Tony

1936	The First Offence	Johnnie Penrose	alternative title Bad Blood

Tudor Rose	Lord Guilford Dudley	Released as Nine Days a Queen in USA

1937	O.H.M.S.	Cpl. Bert Dawson

The Green Cockatoo	Jim Connor

1939	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Peter Colley – as a Young Man

1941	Old Bill and Son	Young Bill Busby

Cottage to Let	Flt. Lieutenant Perry

1942	The Black Sheep of Whitehall	Bobby Jessop

The Big Blockade	Tom

In Which We Serve	Ordinary Seaman Blake

The Young Mr Pitt	William Wilberforce

1943	We Dive at Dawn	Lt. Taylor, R.N.

1944	This Happy Breed	Billy Mitchell

1945	Waterloo Road	Jim Colter

The Way to the Stars	Peter Penrose

1946	Great Expectations	Pip

1947	So Well Remembered	George Boswell	(with daughters Juliet Mills and Hayley Mills)

The October Man	Jim Ackland

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

1949	The History of Mr Polly	Alfred Polly

The Rocking Horse Winner	Bassett	(also produced)

1950	Morning Departure	Lt. Commander Armstrong

1951	Mr. Denning Drives North	Tom Denning

1952	The Gentle Gunman	Terrence Sullivan

1953	The Long Memory	Phillip Davidson

1954	Hobson's Choice	Willie Mossop	Nominated-BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

1955	The Colditz Story	Pat Reid

The End of the Affair	Albert Parkis

Above Us the Waves	Commander Fraser

Escapade	John Hampden

1956	The Baby and the Battleship	Puncher Roberts

War and Peace	Platon Karataev

Around the World in 80 Days	London Carriage Driver

It's Great to Be Young	Mr. Dingle

1957	Town on Trial	Supt. Mike Halloran

The Vicious Circle	Dr. Howard Latimer

1958	Dunkirk	Corporal Binns

Ice Cold in Alex	Captain Anson RASC

I Was Monty's Double	Major Harvey	(also titled Hell, Heaven or Hoboken)

1959	Tiger Bay	Superintendent Graham	(with daughter Hayley Mills)

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll	Barney	(also titled Season of Passion)

1960	Tunes of Glory	Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)	Volpi Cup for Best Actor Nominated-BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

Swiss Family Robinson	William Robinson

1961	The Singer Not the Song	Father Michael Keogh

The Parent Trap	Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy	Uncredited

Flame in the Streets	Jacko Palmer

1962	The Valiant	Captain Morgan

Tiara Tahiti	Lt. Col. Clifford Southey

1964	The Chalk Garden	Maitland	(with daughter Hayley Mills)

1965	Operation Crossbow	Gen. Boyd

The Truth About Spring	Tommy Tyler	(with daughter Hayley Mills)

King Rat	Smedley – Taylor

1966	The Wrong Box	Masterman Finsbury

The Family Way	Ezra Fitton	(with daughter Hayley Mills) Prize San Sebastián for Best Actor (tied with Maurice Ronet for The Champagne Murders)

1967	Africa Texas Style	Wing Commander Hayes

Chuka	Colonel Stuart Valois

1968	A Black Veil for Lisa	Inspector Franz Bulon

Emma Hamilton	Sir William Hamilton

1969	Oh! What a Lovely War	Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig

Run Wild, Run Free	The Moorman

1970	Adam's Woman	Sir Phillip MacDonald

Ryan's Daughter	Michael	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated-BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor

1971	Dulcima	Mr. Parker

1972	Young Winston	General Kitchener

Lady Caroline Lamb	Canning

1973	Oklahoma Crude	Cleon Doyle

1975	The Human Factor	Mike McAllister

1976	Trial by Combat	Colonel Bertie Cook	(also titled A Dirty Knight's Work)

1977	The Devil's Advocate	Blaise Meredith

1978	The Big Sleep	Inspector Jim Carson

The Thirty Nine Steps	Scudder

1979	The Quatermass Conclusion	Professor Bernard Quatermass

Zulu Dawn	Sir Henry Bartle Frere

1982	Gandhi	The Viceroy Baron Chelmsford

1983	Sahara	Cambridge

1986	When the Wind Blows	Jim	Voice

1987	Who's That Girl	Montgomery Bell	(credited as Sir John Mills)

1993	The Big Freeze	Dapper man

1994	Deadly Advice	Jack the Ripper

1995	The Grotesque	Sir Edward Cleghorn	(also titled Gentleman Don't Eat Poets)

1996	Hamlet	Old Norway

1997	Bean	Chairman	(credited as Sir John Mills)

1998	Cats	Gus the Theater Cat

2003	Bright Young Things	Gentleman

2004	Lights2	The Tramp	Cinematographer Jack Cardiff (previously worked on Scott of The Antarctic), (final film role)

Sentence(s)

In 1942, Mills appeared in The Young Mr Pitt as William Wilberforce.

final_sentence: In 1942, Mills appeared in The Young Mr Pitt as William Wilberforce.