Sir John Mills
(1908-2005), Actor, producer and directorSir John Lewis Ernest Watts Mills
Sitter in 7 portraits
Actor, husband of writer Mary Hayley Bell and father of actresses Hayley and Juliet Mills. Making his film debut in The Midshipmaid (1932), Mills went on to become one of Britain's leading screen personalities of the 1940s in films such as In Which We Serve (1942), The Way to the Stars (1945) and Great Expectations (1946). In the 1950s he starred in a number of dramas including Ice Cold in Alex and I Was Monty's Double (both 1958). He later won an Oscar for his supporting role in Ryan's Daughter. Knighted in 1977.
Frances Day; Sir John Mills; Louise Browne
by Stage Photo Company
glossy bromide print, December 1934
NPG x127092
by Allen Newton
gelatin silver print, 1954
NPG x198422
Sir John Mills; Jean Simmons; Harold Wilson
by P.A. Reuter Photos Ltd
bromide press print, 19 March 1964
NPG x194206
David Lean and Sir John Mills on the set of 'Ryan's Daughter'
by Unknown photographer
bromide press print, June 1970
NPG x184048
by Nicholas Sinclair
selenium-toned silver print, 1990
NPG x38830
Related People
- Molly Blake (née Mclenaghan) (niece)
- Annette Mills (Edith Mabel Mills) (sister)
- Hayley Mills (daughter)
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