John Mills Biography

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NAME: Sir John Mills CBE
OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Theater Actor, Producer
BIRTH DATE: February 22, 1908
DEATH DATE: April 23, 2005
EDUCATION: Norwich High School for Boys, Sir John Leman School, Beccles

PLACE OF BIRTH: North Elmham, Norfolk, England
PLACE OF DEATH: Denham, Buckinghamshire, England
Originally: Lewis Ernest Watts Mills

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Sir John Mills was an English actor who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. He won an Oscar for his role in 1970's Ryan's Daughter.

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Synopsis

Englishman John Mills was popular actor in light comedies and musicals in the 1930s. He was best known for patriotic war films as well as Scott of the Antarctic, The Colditz Story and Oh! What a Lovely War. He took few unsympathetic roles,

usually playing the part of a reliable Englishman. He was awarded an Oscar for his role as the village idiot in Ryan's Daughter. He was knighted in 1976.

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Actor and director, born in Felixstowe, Suffolk, E England, UK. He first appeared on stage in 1929, becoming a popular actor in light comedies and musicals in the 1930s. He was best known as a film star, appearing in many patriotic war films as well as such epics as Scott of the Antarctic (1948), The Colditz Story (1954), and Oh! What a Lovely War (1969). For two generations of film audiences he represented the figure of a fundamentally decent and reliable Englishman, and took few unsympathetic roles. He was awarded an Oscar for his role as the village idiot in Ryan's Daughter (1970), and appeared in Gandhi (1982) and Deadly Advice (1994). His stage career indicates a wider acting range, including The Petition at the National Theatre in 1986. He was knighted in 1976, and is the father of actresses Juliet and Hayley. In 2002 he received a BAFTA Fellowship for outstanding contributions to world cinema.