Sir John Mills was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. He excelled on camera as an appealing British everyman who often portrayed guileless, wounde
Mills in Dundee and the Culhane (1967)
Mills (middle) with Alastair Sim and Yvonne Mitchell in Escapade (1955)
Mills handprints from 1985 at Leicester Square, London
The Wick on Richmond Hill in Richmond, Greater London, was the family home for many years.
When the Wind Blows is a 1986 British adult animated anti-war film directed by Jimmy Murakami based on the 1982 graphic novel by Raymond Briggs. It stars the voices of John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft as
John Mills
…followed by Little Lies (1983). In 1986 he did The Petition at the National and the following year did Pygmalion on Broadway. He provided a voice for When the Wind Blows (1986) and supported Madonna in Who's That Girl (1987). His best roles were on TV in Harnessing Peacocks (1993) and Martin Chuzzlewit (1994). Mills…
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