People named John Mills

John Gordon Mills of Oldham, Greater Manchester County, England United Kingdom was born circa 1815 in Woolston, Southampton County, and was the father of John George Gordon Mills. John Mills died at age 39 years old circa 1854 in Oldham, Greater Manchester County.

John George Gordon Mills of Gordon, Moorabool Shire County, VIC Australia was born on June 12, 1838 in Offaly County, OY Ireland to John Gordon Mills. He married Julia Gleeson Mills in 1865, and had children Kenneth Gordon Mills, Patrick Mills, Margaret Mills, Bridget Mills Hawkins, Ellen "Nellie" Mills, John Francis Mills, Michael Mills, William Mills, Ann Cecelia Mills, Mary Elizabeth Mills, George Thomas Mills, James Patrick Mills, Agnes Mills, Catherine Mary (Mills) Murphy, Elizabeth Agnes Mills, Patrick Joseph Mills, Joseph Henry Francis Mills, and Frederick John Mills. John Mills died at age 82 years old on October 19, 1920 in Gordon, Moorabool Shire County, VIC Australia.

John Kenneth Mills of Morwell, Latrobe City County, VIC Australia was born on February 1, 1925 in Leongatha, South Gippsland Shire County to Joseph Henry Francis Mills and Elsie May Doreta Holm. John Mills died at age 58 years old on March 20, 1983 in Morwell, Latrobe City County.

John Francis Mills of Gordon, Moorabool Shire County, VIC Australia was born in 1875 in Gordon to John George Gordon Mills and Julia Gleeson Mills. He had siblings Patrick Mills, Bridget Mills Hawkins, Ellen "Nellie" Mills, Ann Cecelia Mills, Mary Elizabeth Mills, George Thomas Mills, Catherine Mary (Mills) Murphy, Elizabeth Agnes Mills, Patrick Joseph Mills, Joseph Henry Francis Mills, Frederick John Mills, Agnes Mills, Margaret Mills, Kenneth Gordon Mills, Michael Mills, William Mills, and James Patrick Mills. John Mills died at age 39 years old on August 9, 1915 in Gallipoli, Province of Lecce County, Apulia Italy, and was buried at Embarkation Pier Cemetery Sp. Mem. C. 22. in Turkey (including Gallipoli).

John Mills Biography Born February 22, 1908 in The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK Died April 23, 2005 in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK (chest infection) Birth Name John Lewis Ernest Watts Mills Nickname Johnny Height 5' 4" Sir John Mills, one of the most popular and beloved English actors, was born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills on February 22, 1908, at the Watts Naval Training College in North Elmham, Norfolk, England. The young Mills grew up in Felixstowe, Suffolk, where his father was a mathematics teacher and his mother was a theater box-office manager. The Oscar-winner appeared in more than 120 films and TV movies in a career stretching over eight decades, from his debut in 1932 in Midshipmaid Gob (1932) through Bright Young Things (2003) and The Snow Prince (2009). After graduating from the Norwich Grammar School for Boys, Mills rejected his father's academic career for the performing arts. After brief employment as a clerk in a grain merchant's office, he moved to London and enrolled at Zelia Raye's Dancing School. Convinced from the age of six that performing was his destiny, Mills said, "I never considered anything else." After training as a dancer, he started his professional career in the music hall, appearing as a chorus boy at the princely sum of four pounds sterling a week in "The Five O'Clock Revue" at the London Hippodrome, in 1929. The short, wiry song-and-dance man was scouted by Noël Coward and began to appear regularly on the London stage in revues, musicals and legitimate plays throughout the 1930s. He appeared in a score of films before the war, "quota quickies" made under a system regulating the import of American films designed to boost local production. He was a juvenile lead in The Ghost Camera (1933), appeared in the musical Car of Dreams (1935), and then played lead roles in Born for Glory (1935), Nine Days a Queen (1936) and The Green Cockatoo (1937). His Hollywood debut was in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) with Robert Donat, but he refused the American studios' entreaties to sign a contract and returned to England. Mills relished acting in films, finding it a challenge rather than the necessary economic evil that many English actors at the time, such as Laurence Olivier, felt it was, and it was the cinema that would make him an internationally renowned star. He anchored his film career in military roles, such as those in his early pictures Born for Glory (1935) (a.k.a. "Forever England") and Raoul Walsh's You're in the Army Now (1937). He appeared in the classic In Which We Serve (1942), where he worked with his mentor Coward and with Coward's co-director David Lean, who would go on to direct Mills in some of his most memorable performances. Throughout his film career Mills played a wide variety of military characters, portraying the quintessential English hero. He later tackled more complex characterizations, such as the emotionally troubled commander in Tunes of Glory (1960). He also played Field Marshal Haig in the satire Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) that mocked the entire genre. However, it was in his World War II films, which included We Dive at Dawn (1943), Waterloo Road (1945) and Johnny in the Clouds (1945), that Mills established himself as an innovative English film star. With his ordinary appearance and everyman manner, Mills seemed "the boy-next-door," but the Mills hero was decent, loyal and brave, as well as tough and reliable under stress. In his military roles, he managed throughout his career to include enough subtle variations on the Mills heroic type to avoid appearing typed. He could play such straight heroes as Scott of the Antarctic (1948) as well as deconstruct the type in Ice Cold in Alex (1958) and "Tunes of Glory." The latter film features one of his finest film roles, that of the brittle Col. Basil Barrow, the new commander of a Scots battalion. Mills superbly played an emotionally troubled martinet in a role originally slated for Alec Guinness, his Great Expectations (1946) co-star, who decided to take the flashier role of the colonel's tormentor. It was one of Mills' favorite characters. No male star of English cinema enjoyed such a long and rewarding career as a star while appearing predominantly in English films. As an actor, Mills chose his roles on the basis of the quality of the script rather than its propriety as a "star" turn. Because of this, he played roles that were more akin to character parts, such as shoemaker Willy Mossop in Hobson's Choice (1954). As he aged, his proclivity for well-written roles enabled him to make a seamless transition from a lead to character lead to character actor from the 1950s to the 1960s. Almost 40 years after his film debut, Mills won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for playing the mute village idiot in Lean's Ryan's Daughter (1970), an uncharacteristic part. In addition to "In Which We Serve" and "Ryan's Daughter," Lean had also directed Mills in memorable performances in This Happy Breed (1944) and "Hobson's Choice". He gave one of his finest turns as Pip in Lean's masterpiece "Great Expectations", in which Mills' performance was central to the success of the picture. Other significant films in which Mills appeared include The Rocking Horse Winner (1949), King Vidor's War and Peace (1956), The Chalk Garden (1964), King Rat (1965), The Wrong Box (1966), Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), Young Winston (1972) and Stanley Kramer's Oklahoma Crude (1973). He also appeared with his daughter Hayley Mills in Tiger Bay (1959) and The Family Way (1966) and had a cameo in her Disney hit The Parent Trap (1961). Mills appeared in a Disney hit of his own, Swiss Family Robinson (1960), as the paterfamilias. He had one of the better cameo parts in producer Mike Todd's epic Around the World in 80 Days (1956), playing a carriage driver, and appeared in a non-speaking part as Old Norway in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996). In 1967 he appeared in the short-lived American TV series Dundee and the Culhane (1967) on CBS. In the hour-long series Mills played an English lawyer named Dundee who roamed the Wild West with a young American lawyer named Culhane, who was also a fast draw with a six-gun. The network was disappointed with the quality of the show's writing and cancelled it after 13 episodes. One of the series' directors was Ida Lupino, who played Mills' sister in "The Ghost Camera" over 30 years before (Lupino also directed Hayley in The Trouble with Angels (1966)). Mills' most famous television role was probably the title character in ITV's Quatermass (1979). He appeared on Broadway during the 1961-62 season as the lead character in Terence Rattigan's "Ross," a fictionalization of the life of T.E. Lawrence, for which he was nominated for a Best Actor Tony Award. His only other Broadway appearance was in the 1987 revival of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," in which he played Alfred Doolittle. The play was nominated for a Tony for Best Revival, and Amanda Plummer, playing his character's daughter, Eliza, also received a Tony nomination. After divorcing Aileen Raymond, whom he had married at the age of 19, Mills married playwright Mary Hayley Bell on January 16, 1941. Since he was serving in the army, they could not have a church service, and they renewed their vows at St. Mary's Church, next to their home, Hills House, in Denham, England, in 2001. Mills has worked as both producer and director: in 1966, he directed daughter Hayley in Gypsy Girl (1966) (a.k.a. "Gypsy Girl), from a script written by his wife. He produced "The Rocking Horse Winner" and The History of Mr. Polly (1949), the latter film featuring his older daughter Juliet Mills as a child. Whistle Down the Wind (1961) in which Hayley's character mistakes a runaway convict played by Alan Bates for Jesus Christ, was based on a novel written by Mary. Living in Hollywood during the 1960s where his daughter Hayley enjoyed her own Oscar-winning career as a child star, Mills and his wife became very popular with members of the movie colony. After Hayley grew out of her child actress roles, Mills returned to England, where he continued his film work. He became a council member of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and a life patron of the Variety Club. Mills was appointed a Commander of the British Empire in 1960 and was knighted in 1976. Although he suffered from deafness and failing eyesight and went almost completely blind in 1990, he continued to act, playing both blind and sighted characters with his customary joie de vivre and panache. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts honored him with a Special Tribute Award in 1987 and a Fellowship, its highest award, in 2002. He was honored with a British Film Institute Fellowship in 1995 and was named a Disney Legend by The Walt Disney Co. After a brief illness, Sir John Mills died at the age of 97 on April 23, 2005, in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England. He was survived by his widow (who survived him by eight months), his son Jonathan, his daughters Juliet and Hayley, and his grandson Crispian Mills, the lead singer of the hit pop music group Kula Shaker. He was the author of an autobiography, "Up in the Clouds, Gentleman Please," published in 1981. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jon C. Hopwood Spouse (2) Mary Hayley Bell (16 January 1941 - 23 April 2005) ( his death) ( 3 children) Aileen Raymond (12 March 1932 - 1940) ( divorced)

John L Mills of Alexandria, Alexandria City County, Virginia was born on December 18, 1922, and died at age 54 years old in November 1977.

John V Mills of Sacramento, Sacramento County, California was born on August 10, 1906, and died at age 72 years old in April 1979.

John D Mills of Oakland, Alameda County, California was born on April 19, 1917, and died at age 68 years old in September 1985.

John E Mills of California was born on December 11, 1909, and died at age 73 years old in July 1983.

John M Mills Sr of Borger, Hutchinson County, TX was born on September 14, 1915, and died at age 87 years old on July 5, 2003.

John Y Mills of Chula Vista, San Diego County, CA was born on July 28, 1926, and died at age 68 years old on September 19, 1994.

John W Mills of Holbrook, Suffolk County, NY was born on March 6, 1918, and died at age 60 years old in November 1978.

John B Mills of Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA was born on November 26, 1922, and died at age 71 years old on June 5, 1994.

John L R Mills of Ashland, Jackson County, Oregon was born on July 4, 1915, and died at age 64 years old in August 1979.

John E Mills of Melbourne, Brevard County, FL was born on April 11, 1911, and died at age 70 years old in December 1981.

John W Mills of Stanwood, Snohomish County, Washington was born on July 8, 1917, and died at age 61 years old in August 1978.

John N Mills of Stratford, Fairfield County, CT was born on August 5, 1919, and died at age 89 years old on November 3, 2008.

John D Mills of Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ was born on January 12, 1943, and died at age 66 years old on November 30, 2009. John Mills was buried at Prescott National Cemetery Section B Row D Site 152 Va Medical Center - 500 Highway 89 N., in Prescott.

John W Mills of Mesa, Maricopa County, AZ was born on August 5, 1928, and died at age 64 years old on July 26, 1993.

John L Mills of Kennesaw, Cobb County, GA was born on August 1, 1922, and died at age 83 years old on July 20, 2006.

John C Mills of Pittsburg, Hickory County, MO was born on March 8, 1922, and died at age 84 years old on November 14, 2006.

John E Mills of Osceola, Saint Clair County, MO was born on March 9, 1910, and died at age 82 years old on January 28, 1993.

John F Mills of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC was born on March 1, 1905, and died at age 73 years old in February 1978.

John Donald Mills of Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota was born on January 13, 1916, and died at age 70 years old on January 19, 1986. John Mills was buried at Black Hills National Cemetery Section G Site 302-A 20901 Pleasant Valley Drive, in Sturgis.

John Orr Mills of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota was born on November 8, 1916, and died at age 61 years old on May 28, 1978. John Mills was buried at Ft. Snelling National Cemetery Section O Site 4890 7601 34th Avenue, South, in Minneapolis.

John J Mills of Houston, Harris County, TX was born on February 2, 1929, and died at age 66 years old on June 16, 1995.

John David Mills of Electra, Wichita County, Texas was born on April 13, 1946, and died at age 64 years old on March 1, 2011.

John W Mills of Justin, Denton County, TX was born on June 25, 1971, and died at age 36 years old on November 9, 2007.

John S Mills of Holland, Bell County, TX was born on July 3, 1971, and died at age 38 years old on February 15, 2010.