John Mills

...five years later, and it is now estimated at up to GBP50,000. Attenborough also bought a painting by Matthew Smith from his friend John Mills when the latter was broke, but allowed it to stay Mills's walls until his death. The...

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Sir John Mills, CBE (22 February 1908 - 23 April 2005) was an Academy Award winning English actor, who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. Lewis Ernest Watts Mills was born at the Watts Naval School in North...

In this article: Mary Hayley Bell, World War II, Academy Award, The Parent Trap, Crispian Mills, Noel Coward, and Walt Disney

...shaky lineout and putting Hansen in charge of the back with Smith shifting to defence. He's also called in former All Blacks hooker John Mills on a short term basis to improve the team's mauling before they head off on their northern...

In this article: All Blacks, Sydney Swans, Graham Henry, John Longmire, Wayne Smith, Steve Hansen, World Cup, New Zealand Rugby Union, and Sitiveni Sivivatu

...steal money, with unhappy results; a bleak, corrosive look at working-class life. Equally bleak is the outlook for John Mills' character in "The October Man." In a fine portrayal of mental instability and psychological frailty,...

In this article: The Third Man, Jules Dassin, Britain, UCLA, They Drive by Night, London, New York, Night and the City, and Joseph Cotten

...the cinema? Going to the pictures was everyone s favourite outing, with all those wonderful stiff-upper-lip British film stars such as John Mills, Jack Hawkins, Kenneth More and Dirk Bogarde and great war films such as The Dam Busters, epics...

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...but sturdily uncomplicated note: less dangerous than James Mason, less leery than Stewart Granger, much taller than Dirk Bogarde or John Mills, and refreshingly free from limiting class associations. He'd had theatrical experience before...

In this article: John McCallum, Melbourne, Australia, Michael Powell, The Loves of Joanna Godden, The Deep Blue Sea, England, and Sydney

...realisation of Great Expectations. From the jumpy graveyard scene to the weirdness of Satis House, and with actors such as John Mills and Alec Guinness giving their all, there is no level at which this utterly brilliant film doesn't...

In this article: William Wyler, Oscar, Great Expectations, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, David Lean, Bela Lugosi, Francis Ford Coppola, The Sound of Music, and Fred Zinnemann

...directors -- Lean was luxuriating in the success of his epics Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia -- and such acting luminaries as John Mills and the aforementioned Mitchum, it also benefited from a huge financial windfall. Faraway...

In this article: Robert Mitchum, David Lean, Ryan's Daughter, Sarah Miles, Christopher Jones, Oscar, and Dingle

...by Lean, fresh from such instant greats as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, it starred John Mills, who turned in an Oscar-winning performance as the village idiot, and the Hollywood legend Robert...

In this article: David Lean, Sarah Miles, A Man for All Seasons, Robert Mitchum, Doctor Zhivago, Robert Bolt, Christopher Jones, Ryan's Daughter, and Duck Soup

..."Hamlet" (1996). Mr. Mills influenced generations of English actors, including 2002 best actor Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson. "John Mills, who is a fantastic actor, could do anything," Wilkinson once told the New York Times. "He could play...

In this article: Noel Coward, Oscar, Hamlet, London, Great Expectations, Laurence Olivier, Tom Wilkinson, Vivien Leigh, and David Lean