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Acting

John Mills

Career: Active from 1933 to 2001, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 80
top three billing

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: King Rat
88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 79 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

John Mills Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
1.9, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.7, average 2.2
Fantasy
1.0, average 1.7
Cringe Humor
1.5, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character Study 9
Historical Drama 9
Social Commentary 8
Intrigue 7
Moral Ambiguity 7
British Cinema 6
Character-Driven 6
Nostalgic 6
Class Conflict 5
Psychological Thriller 5
Historical Setting 3
Historical Context 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

131

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

3 titles · average score 64

Bright Young Things

64

as Gentleman

The Gentleman Thief

as Arthur Rosehip

as Interviewee

1990s

11 titles · average score 59

Cats

47

as Gus the Theatre Cat

Bean

54

as Chairman

Hamlet

86

as Old King Norway

The Grotesque

46

as Sir Edward Cleghorn

Martin Chuzzlewit

82

TV show · as Mr Chuffey

Deadly Advice

42

as Jack the Ripper

Frankenstein

62

as De Lacey

Harnessing Peacocks

57

as Bernard Quigley

The Big Freeze

as Dapper man

Night of the Fox

54

as Brig. Dougal Munro

Perfect Scoundrels

TV show · as Praeger

1980s

14 titles · average score 63

as Bernard

A Tale of Two Cities

64

TV show · as Jarvis Lorry

Around the World in 80 Days

69

TV show · as Faversham

Who's That Girl

43

as Montgomery Bell

Hold the Dream

54

TV show · as Henry Rossiter

When the Wind Blows

84

as Jim Bloggs (voice)

Murder with Mirrors

56

as Lewis Serrocold

A Woman of Substance

75

TV show · as Henry Rossiter

The Masks of Death

53

as Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator

Sahara

53

as Cambridge

Gandhi

82

as Lord Chelmsford

Hotel

65

TV show

1970s

20 titles · average score 58

Zulu Dawn

61

as Sir Henry Bartle Frere

Quatermass

69

TV show · as Bernard Quatermass

The Quatermass Conclusion

49

as Prof. Bernard Quatermass

The Big Sleep

52

as Inspector Carson

The Love Boat

53

TV show · as Bertram MacDonald

The Devil's Advocate

as Monsignor Blaise Meredith

Trial by Combat

65

as Colonel Bertie Cook

The Human Factor

40

as Mike McAllister

The Zoo Gang

TV show · as Thomas "The Elephant" Devon

Dulcima

69

as Mr. Parker

Ryan's Daughter

59

as Michael

Adam's Woman

66

as Sir Philip MacDonald

1960s

21 titles · average score 64

Run Wild, Run Free

70

as The Moorman (Colonel)

A Black Veil for Lisa

58

as Inspector Franz Bulon

Chuka

53

as Colonel Stuart Valois

Dundee and the Culhane

TV show · as Dundee

Africa: Texas Style!

47

as Wing Commander Hayes

The Wrong Box

77

as Masterman Finsbury

The Family Way

70

as Ezra Fitton

The Chalk Garden

60

as Maitland

Tiara Tahiti

60

as Lt. Col. Clifford Southey

The Singer Not the Song

63

as Father Michael Keogh

Swiss Family Robinson

72

as Father

Tunes of Glory

72

as Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)

1950s

22 titles · average score 67

Tiger Bay

77

as Superintendent Graham

I Was Monty's Double

66

as Major Harvey

Ice Cold in Alex

81

as Captain Anson

Dunkirk

71

as Cpl Tubby Binns

The Vicious Circle

65

as Dr. Howard Latimer

Escapade

59

as John Hampden

The Colditz Story

68

as Pat Reid

Above Us the Waves

63

as Commandant Fraser

The End of the Affair

70

as Albert Parkis

Hobson's Choice

85

as William Mossop

The Long Memory

63

as Phillip Davidson

Mr. Denning Drives North

65

as Tom Denning

1940s

22 titles · average score 69

The History of Mr. Polly

67

as Alfred Polly

Scott of the Antarctic

70

as Captain R.F. Scott R.N.

The October Man

67

as Jim Ackland

So Well Remembered

69

as George Boswell

Great Expectations

86

as Pip

The Way to the Stars

69

as Pilot Officer Peter Penrose

Waterloo Road

56

as Jim Colter

Victory Wedding

as Bill Clark

We Dive at Dawn

61

as Lt. Taylor RN

In Which We Serve

80

as Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

74

as Bobby Jessop

Old Bill and Son

as Young Bill

1930s

18 titles · average score 67

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

80

as Peter Colley as a Young Man

The Green Cockatoo

59

as Jim Connor

O.H.M.S.

as Cpl. Bert Dawson

Tudor Rose

73

as Lord Guilford Dudley

First Offence

as Johnnie Penrose

Brown on Resolution

62

as Albert Brown

Car of Dreams

as Robert Miller

Charing Cross Road

as Tony

as Arthur Haughton

Doctor's Orders

as Ronnie Blake

Those Were the Days

as Bobby Poskett

The Ghost Camera

62

as Ernest Elton