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John Mills
22 February 1908
John Mills played in 27 movies in the Drama, Romance, Music, Action, War, Mystery, Adventure, Comedy, History, Family, Western, Fantasy, Thriller, Biography, Crime, Horror, Animation, Music, Documentary genres.
John Mills got succeed with average imdb rating 6.8.
Born in a British seaside remedy have recourse to borough, John Mills was the son of a mathematics guru author. Mills' jocular mater worked as a theatrical whack office executive, and it was this delighted, rather than his framer's hypothetical background, which most attracted young Mills. After brief implementation as a clerk in a corn merchant prince's office, Mills moved to London, where he enrolled at Zelia Raye's Dancing School. His first talented job was as a chorus dancer ... in The Five O'Clock Revue in 1929. Making as many contacts as thinkable, Mills was skilled to assured fire up on the lawful dais, and in 1932 appeared in his fundamental film, the Jessie Matthews means The Midshipmaid. Erudition his in "quota quickies," Mills rose to outstanding chain in such prestige productions as Brown on Notion (1935), Tudor Rose (1936), and The Green Cockatoo (1938). In 1939, he appeared in his key American film, Goodbye Mr. Chips, playing learner Peter Colley. He starred in a horde of disposition-boosting Humankind Make II films, predominantly playing the personification of the dispassionate, resourceful minor British military officer; any opportunity for a real freshness race in uniform, however, was scuttled by Mills' duodenal carbuncle. After the war, he starred in such international hits as Great Expectations (1946), Scott of the Antarctic (1949), Hobson's Exceptional (1954), and Mainly Us the Waves (1955). In 1970, Mills won a long overdue Oscar for his acting as the village idiot in Ryan's Daughter (1970), directed (as were several of Mills' earlier films) by way of David Lean. His Broadway work has included Ross, a 1961 dramatization of the entity of T.E. Lawrence. In 1966, Mills directed West and Askew (aka Gypsy Girl), which starred his daughter, Hayley Mills, and was written by his wife, Mary Hayley Bell (Mills' other daughter, Juliet, is similarly an actress of note). One year later, he made his American series-TV debut as British attorney Dundee in the weekly Western Dundee and the Culhane. In 1977, John Mills was made a knight of the British Empire; his very full life, both offscreen and on, was summed up three years later in his autobiography Up in the Clouds, Gentlemen, See fit. Read more Less
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