John Mills

John Mills's biography

John Lewis Ernest Watts Mills is 97 years old autobiographer born at The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK. He was born on Saturday 22nd of February 1908. He is often nicknamed as Sir John Mills, John Mills CBE, Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, John Mills, John Lewis Ernest Watts Mills. According to year of birth 1908 he belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 22nd of February means John is Pisces. Pisces is a Watery Sign. They are very intuitive people. They are empathic, emotional and highly spiritual in nature.He was married 2 times.

He is white british. John is citizen of United Kingdom. John´s primary profession is to be autobiographer. You can know John also as character actor, stage actor, film actor, film director, film producer. John is recently known as television actor.

John Mills's family

John Mills's ex spouses

Mary Hayley Bell

John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell have been together since 1941 for 64 years. She is known as writer. John´s ex spouse was born on Sunday 22nd of January 1911 in Shanghai. His ex spouse died on Thursday 1st of December 2005 in Buckinghamshire. Mary Hayley Bell was 97 years old, when this happened.

Aileen Raymond

John Mills and Aileen Raymond have been together since 1932 for 9 years. She is known as actor. His ex spouse was born on Wednesday 23rd of November 1910 in Isle of Wight. His ex spouse died on Thursday 28th of April 2005 in Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Aileen Raymond was 97 years old, when this happened.

John has 2 daughters.

John Mills's daughter: Juliet Mills

John Mills's daughter's name is Juliet Mills. She is known as stage actor. John´s daughter was born on Friday 21st of November 1941 in London.

John Mills's daughter: Hayley Mills

John Mills's daughter's name is Hayley Mills. She is known as singer. John´s daughter was born on Thursday 18th of April 1946.

John Mills's schools

We found 3 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Norwich High School for Boys, Sir John Leman High School, Langley School.

John Mills's career

John´s main focus is to be autobiographer. John is famous thanks to Ryan's Daughter, Ice Cold in Alex.

How did John Mills die

He died on on Saturday 23rd of April 2005 when he was 97 years old at Denham. John Millss death was caused by chest infection.

Awards and competitions

John Mills's Awards

• He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1960 Queen's New Year Honours List and became a Knight Bachelor in the 1976 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours for his services to drama.
• Was nominated for Broadway's 1962 Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic) for "Ross."
• Prior to his death he had planned on attending The 32nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2005) where his daughter Juliet Mills was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for playing Tabitha Lennox in Passions (1999).
• Of the Oscar-winning father-daughter couples, he and his daughter Hayley Mills are one of two couples (the other is Jane Fonda/Henry Fonda) where the daughter won an Academy award before the father did.

John Mills's Rankings

• Ranked #88 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

John Mills's Nominations

• He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

What else you don't know about John Mills ?

John´s middle name is Lewis Ernest Watts.

What John Mills has done for a first time

• His first wife, Aileen Raymond, survived him by five days and she was the mother of the actor Ian Ogilvy.
• He and his first wife Aileen Raymond both died in April 2005, 73 years after they were married.
• Mills' first professional appearance was as a chorus boy in a Hippodrome show "The Five O'Clock Revue" with Ernest Truex in 1927.

John Mills's quotes

• One of the luckiest things that ever happened to me was to be born with a desperate desire to become an actor. I never remember at any age wanting to be anything else.
• [referring to his Oscar-winning role as a brain-damaged mute in Ryan's Daughter (1970)] It was weird. I just thought I'd been wasting my time for the past 55 years learning all these millions of lines, and then getting an Oscar for not speaking.
• Ryan's Daughter (1970) is not my best film, but it is the best thing that happened to me, professionally. It brought me the Academy Award, and that meant I could finally be known again as somebody other than Hayley Mills' father.
• [after receiving a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as the "village idiot" in Ryan's Daughter (1970)] I was speechless for a year in Ireland, and I'm speechless again now!
• [in a personal tribute to Noël Coward] I don't know any actor alive today who could get laughs with, apparently, so little effort. You never compromised or went out after our sympathy for one moment.
• [on Trevor Howard] He became one of the finest actors we ever had. One of the greatest, and a lovely man with it.
• I used to write childish melodramas when I was seven or eight and act them out in the schoolhouse.
• [on his first wife Aileen Raymond] We were both young, and I guess we just drifted apart.
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John Mills's height, body shape

Lets describe how John Mills looks. We will focus on his height, body shape and hair color. John is tall as 5' 8" (173 cm). Body build is average. His hair is shade of grey.