John Mills Net Worth
John Mills Net Worth is
$6 Million
John Mills Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Sir John Mills CBE (22 February 1908 – 23 April 2005) was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. On screen, he often played people who are not at all exceptional, but become heroes because of their common sense, generosity and good judgement. He received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Ryan's Daughter (1970). | Full Name | John Mills |
| Date Of Birth | February 22, 1908 |
| Died | 2005-04-23 |
| Place Of Birth | The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK |
| Height | 5' 8" (1.73 m) |
| Profession | Actor, Soundtrack, Producer |
| Education | Norwich High School for Boys, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
| Spouse | Mary Hayley Bell children |
| Children | Jonathan |
| Parents | Lewis Mills, Edith Mills |
| Siblings | Annette Mills |
| Awards | Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, BAFTA Fellowship, Volpi Cup for Best Actor, BAFTA Special Award (Film) |
| Nominations | BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, BAFTA Award for Best British Actor, Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play |
| Movies | Ryan's Daughter, Great Expectations, In Which We Serve, Hobson's Choice, Swiss Family Robinson, Tiger Bay, Ice Cold in Alex, Tunes of Glory, The Family Way, Scott of the Antarctic, Gandhi, The Way to the Stars, We Dive at Dawn, The October Man, The Colditz Story, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Morning Departur... |
| TV Shows | Dundee and the Culhane, The Zoo Gang, Quatermass, Spit MacPhee, Frankenstein, Martin Chuzzlewit, A Woman of Substance, Night of the Fox, Young At Heart |
| Star Sign | Pisces |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | [on his first wife Aileen Raymond] We were both young, and I guess we just drifted apart. |
| 2 | I used to write childish melodramas when I was seven or eight and act them out in the schoolhouse. |
| 3 | [on Trevor Howard] He became one of the finest actors we ever had. One of the greatest, and a lovely man with it. |
| 4 | [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. |
| 5 | [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! |
| 6 | 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. |
| 7 | [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. |
| 8 | 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. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | He had two roles in common with his The Baby and the Battleship (1956) co-star André Morell: (1) Morell played Dr. John Watson in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) while Mills played him in Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984) and (2) Morell played Professor Bernard Quatermass in Quatermass and the Pit (1958) while Mills played him in Quatermass (1979). |
| 2 | In the encyclopedic compendium "OSCAR A to Z" by Charles Matthews, it is falsely stated that Mills died in 1982. |
| 3 | He played the uncle of his real life daughter Juliet Mills in Nanny and the Professor: The Human Fly (1971). |
| 4 | He appeared in five films with Richard Attenborough: In Which We Serve (1942), Operation Disaster (1950), The Baby and the Battleship (1956), Dunkirk (1958) and Hamlet (1996). He also appeared in three films directed by Attenborough: Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), Young Winston (1972) and Gandhi (1982). |
| 5 | Laurence Olivier offered Mills the role of one of the murderers in Richard III (1955) but he turned it down, believing that it could be seen as stunt casting. |
| 6 | He appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) and Gandhi (1982). John Gielgud and Trevor Howard also appeared in both films. |
| 7 | He was considered for the roles of Dr. Hans Fallada, Dr. Armstrong and Sir Percy Heseltine in Lifeforce (1985). |
| 8 | Acording to Mills in the 'Films in Review' career article on him in August 1971, he was offered the Burgess Meredith role in "Of Mice and Men" and the Humphrey Bogart role in "The African Queen.". |
| 9 | Mills' greatest American stage success was as T. E. Lawrence in "Ross." Mills had met the real Lawrence in 1931 through good friend Noel Coward when he was appearing in "Cavalcade.". |
| 10 | Mills' first professional appearance was as a chorus boy in a Hippodrome show "The Five O'Clock Revue" with Ernest Truex in 1927. |
| 11 | According to Mills, the only reason he saw his quota quickie "The Lash" is because it was on a double bill with something that Spencer Tracy was acting in. |
| 12 | Mills was rejected by the army during World War II because of a duodenal ulcer. |
| 13 | He and his first wife Aileen Raymond both died in April 2005, approximately 78 years after they were married. |
| 14 | Father-in-law of Maxwell Caulfield. |
| 15 | In 1967, he appeared in "The Great Escape" themed episode of The Golden Shot (1967), hosted by Bob Monkhouse. |
| 16 | There is 16mm footage of Mills in the 1932 stage show "Words and Music" alongside Doris Hare. The show was written by Noël Coward. |
| 17 | He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture. |
| 18 | He is credited with playing more military roles than any other star. In 31 of his movies, almost a third of his whole cinematic output, he portrayed soldiers, usually officers. |
| 19 | He was a close friend of Stephen Fry. |
| 20 | His wife of 64 years, Mary Hayley Bell, suffered from Alzheimer's disease for many years. Due to the advanced stage of her illness, she was unable to attend his funeral on April 27, 2005. |
| 21 | He was a close friend of the English actor/director Richard Attenborough, who read the eulogy at his funeral. |
| 22 | 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. |
| 23 | Died seven days after his In Which We Serve (1942), The October Man (1947), This Happy Breed (1944) and Tunes of Glory (1960) co-star, Kay Walsh. |
| 24 | Enlisted in the Royal Engineers in 1940 but received a medical discharge after a year and a half due to a duodenal ulcer. |
| 25 | Despite being two of Britain's most distinguished actors of their generation, he appeared in only two films with Alec Guinness: Great Expectations (1946) and Tunes of Glory (1960). |
| 26 | 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). |
| 27 | He always maintained his favorite movie was Tunes of Glory (1960), in which he co-starred with Alec Guinness. |
| 28 | More than 400 stars of stage and screen took part in an event organized by the Lord's Taverners charity, of which he was the founding president in 1950, at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, south east London to honor his illustrious career and recent Diamond wedding anniversary. (21 February 2001) |
| 29 | Suffered a bad fall at his Buckinghamshire home, breaking two ribs, and was kept overnight in hospital as a precaution. (November 2001) |
| 30 | Hospitalised with a severe chest infection in August 2002. |
| 31 | Was nominated for Broadway's 1962 Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic) for "Ross." |
| 32 | He was educated at Norwich Grammar School for Boys. |
| 33 | His first wife, Aileen Raymond, survived him by five days and she was the mother of the actor Ian Ogilvy. |
| 34 | Younger brother of Annette Mills. |
| 35 | When he won the 1971 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award, Mills was the only winner present at the ceremony to accept his acting award. The other three winners of Academy Awards for acting that year, George C. Scott, Glenda Jackson, and Helen Hayes, didn't attend the awards. ceremony. |
| 36 | A council member of RADA, he was also a life patron of the Variety Club. |
| 37 | 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. |
| 38 | He was voted ninth in the 2001 Orange Film Survey of greatest British actors. |
| 39 | At age 92, he and wife Mary, age 89, renewed their marriage vows at St. Mary's Church, next to their home, Hills House, in Denham, England. When they had wed 60 years earlier, he was denied a church service because he was serving in the Army during World War II. [January 2001] |
| 40 | Supported the Labour Party during the 2001 General Election campaign. |
| 41 | Grandfather of Crispian Mills, lead singer of Kula Shaker and Melissa Caulfield. |
| 42 | Father of actresses Juliet Mills, Hayley Mills and writer/producer Jonathan Mills. |
| 43 | Ranked #88 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997] |
| 44 | Although his eyesight failed almost completely in 1990, he continued to act, playing both blind and seeing characters. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Sky's the Limit | 1943/II | Short | Tom |
| The Young Mr. Pitt | 1942 | William Wilberforce | |
| In Which We Serve | 1942 | Ordinary Seaman Shorty Blake | |
| The Big Blockade | 1942 | Royal Air Force: Tom | |
| Black Sheep of Whitehall | 1942 | Bobby | |
| Bombsight Stolen | 1941 | Flt·Lieut. Perry | |
| Old Bill and Son | 1941 | Young Bill Busby | |
| All Hands | 1940 | Short | Jack |
| Goodbye, Mr. Chips | 1939 | Peter Colley (as a young man) | |
| Happy Family | 1939 | Short | Fred |
| The Green Cockatoo | 1937 | Jim Connor | |
| You're in the Army Now | 1937 | Cpl. Bert Dawson | |
| Nine Days a Queen | 1936 | Lord Guilford Dudley | |
| The First Offence | 1936 | Johnnie Penrose | |
| Charing Cross Road | 1935 | Tony | |
| Born for Glory | 1935 | Albert Brown | |
| Regal Cavalcade | 1935 | Young Enlistee | |
| Car of Dreams | 1935 | Robert Miller | |
| The Doctor's Secret | 1934 | Ronnie Blake | |
| Blind Justice | 1934 | Ralph Summers | |
| The Lash | 1934 | Arthur Haughton | |
| Those Were the Days | 1934 | Bobby Poskett | |
| The River Wolves | 1934 | Peter Farrell | |
| A Political Party | 1934 | Tony Smithers | |
| Britannia of Billingsgate | 1933 | Fred Bolton | |
| The Ghost Camera | 1933 | Ernest Elton | |
| Midshipmaid Gob | 1932 | Golightly | |
| Lights2 | 2005 | Short | A Tramp |
| Bright Young Things | 2003 | Gentleman | |
| The Gentleman Thief | 2001 | TV Movie | Arthur Rosehip |
| Great Performances | 1998 | TV Series | Gus the Theatre Cat |
| Bean | 1997 | Chairman (as Sir John Mills) | |
| Hamlet | 1996 | Old Norway | |
| Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets | 1995 | Sir Edward Cleghorn | |
| Martin Chuzzlewit | 1994 | TV Mini-Series | Mr. Chuffey |
| Deadly Advice | 1994 | Jack the Ripper | |
| Harnessing Peacocks | 1993 | TV Movie | Bernard Quigley |
| The Big Freeze | 1993 | TV Movie | Dapper Man |
| Frankenstein | 1992 | TV Movie | De Lacey |
| Perfect Scoundrels | 1992 | TV Series | Praeger |
| Night of the Fox | 1990 | TV Movie | Brig. Dougal Munro |
| Ending Up | 1989 | TV Movie | Bernard |
| A Tale of Two Cities | 1989 | TV Mini-Series | Jarvis Lorry |
| Around the World in 80 Days | 1989 | TV Mini-Series | Faversham |
| The Lady and the Highwayman | 1989 | TV Movie | Sir Lawrence Dobson |
| Spit MacPhee | 1988 | TV Mini-Series | Fyfe MacPhee |
| Who's That Girl | 1987 | Montgomery Bell (as Sir John Mills) | |
| Hold the Dream | 1986 | TV Movie | Henry Rossiter |
| When the Wind Blows | 1986 | Jim (voice) | |
| Hotel | 1986 | TV Series | Charles Canfield |
| Edge of the Wind | 1985 | TV Movie | Major General Blair |
| Murder with Mirrors | 1985 | TV Movie | Lewis Serrocold |
| A Woman of Substance | 1985 | TV Mini-Series | Henry Rossiter |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death | 1984 | TV Movie | Doctor Watson |
| Sahara | 1983 | Cambridge | |
| Gandhi | 1982 | The Viceroy | |
| Young at Heart | 1980-1982 | TV Series | Albert Collyer |
| The Adventures of Little Lord Fauntleroy | 1982 | TV Movie | The Earl of Dorincourt |
| Tales of the Unexpected | 1980-1982 | TV Series | Sam Morrissey / The Man / William Perkins |
| Quatermass | 1979 | TV Mini-Series | Prof. Bernard Quatermass |
| Zulu Dawn | 1979 | Sir Henry Bartle Frere | |
| The Love Boat | 1979 | TV Series | Bertram MacDonald |
| The Quatermass Conclusion | 1979 | Prof. Bernard Quatermass | |
| The Thirty-Nine Steps | 1978 | Scudder | |
| Dr. Strange | 1978 | TV Movie | Lindmer |
| The Big Sleep | 1978 | Inspector Jim Carson | |
| Des Teufels Advokat | 1977 | Monsignor Blaise Meredith (as Sir John Mills) | |
| A Dirty Knight's Work | 1976 | Colonel Bertie Cook | |
| The 'Human' Factor | 1975 | Mike McAllister | |
| The Zoo Gang | 1974 | TV Series | Thomas 'The Elephant' Devon |
| Oklahoma Crude | 1973 | Cleon | |
| Lady Caroline Lamb | 1972 | Canning | |
| Young Winston | 1972 | General Kitchener | |
| Dulcima | 1971 | Mr. Parker | |
| Nanny and the Professor | 1971 | TV Series | Uncle Alfred |
| Ryan's Daughter | 1970 | Michael | |
| Adam's Woman | 1970 | Sir Philip MacDonald | |
| Oh! What a Lovely War | 1969 | Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig | |
| Run Wild, Run Free | 1969 | The Moorman | |
| Emma Hamilton | 1968 | Lord William Hamilton | |
| A Black Veil for Lisa | 1968 | Inspector Franz Bulon | |
| Dundee and the Culhane | 1967 | TV Series | Dundee |
| Chuka | 1967 | Colonel Stuart Valois | |
| Africa: Texas Style | 1967 | Wing Commander Hayes | |
| The Family Way | 1966 | Ezra Fitton | |
| The Wrong Box | 1966 | Masterman Finsbury | |
| King Rat | 1965 | Smedley-Taylor | |
| Operation Crossbow | 1965 | Gen. Boyd | |
| The Chalk Garden | 1964 | Maitland | |
| The DuPont Show of the Week | 1962-1964 | TV Series | Davies / Inspector Fallon |
| The Truth About Spring | 1964 | Tommy Tyler | |
| Tiara Tahiti | 1962 | Lt. Col. Clifford Southey | |
| The Valiant | 1962 | Captain Morgan | |
| Flame in the Streets | 1961 | Jacko Palmer | |
| The Parent Trap | 1961 | Mitch Evers' Golf Caddy (uncredited) | |
| The Singer Not the Song | 1961 | Father Michael Keogh | |
| Swiss Family Robinson | 1960 | Father | |
| Tunes of Glory | 1960 | Lt. Col. Basil Barrow | |
| Season of Passion | 1959 | Barney | |
| Tiger Bay | 1959 | Superintendent Graham | |
| Hell, Heaven or Hoboken | 1958 | Major Harvey | |
| Ice Cold in Alex | 1958 | Captain Anson | |
| Dunkirk | 1958 | Corporal 'Tubby' Binns | |
| The Circle | 1957 | Dr. Howard Latimer | |
| Town on Trial | 1957 | Supt. Mike Halloran | |
| It's Great to Be Young! | 1956 | Dingle | |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | 1956 | London Carriage Driver | |
| Producers' Showcase | 1956 | TV Series | Robert Crosbie |
| War and Peace | 1956 | Platon Karataev | |
| The Baby and the Battleship | 1956 | Puncher Roberts | |
| Escapade | 1955 | John Hampden | |
| Above Us the Waves | 1955 | Cmdr. Fraser | |
| The End of the Affair | 1955 | Albert Parkis | |
| The Colditz Story | 1955 | Pat Reid | |
| Hobson's Choice | 1954 | William Mossop | |
| The Long Memory | 1953 | Phillip Davidson | |
| The Gentle Gunman | 1952 | Terence Sullivan | |
| Mr. Denning Drives North | 1951 | Tom Denning | |
| Operation Disaster | 1950 | Lieut. Cmdr. Peter Armstrong | |
| The Rocking Horse Winner | 1949 | Bassett | |
| The History of Mr. Polly | 1949 | Alfred Polly | |
| Scott of the Antarctic | 1948 | Captain R.F. Scott R.N. | |
| The October Man | 1947 | Jim Ackland | |
| So Well Remembered | 1947 | George Boswell | |
| Great Expectations | 1946 | Pip | |
| Johnny in the Clouds | 1945 | Peter Penrose | |
| Waterloo Road | 1945 | Jim Colter | |
| This Happy Breed | 1944 | Billy Mitchell | |
| Information Please | 1944 | Short | British Flyer (uncredited) |
| Victory Wedding | 1944 | Short | Private Bill Clark |
| We Dive at Dawn | 1943 | Captain - Lt. Taylor, R.N. |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Performances | 1998 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Oh! What a Lovely War | 1969 | performer: "Oh, It's a Lovely War" - uncredited | |
| Swiss Family Robinson | 1960 | performer: "O Christmas Tree" - uncredited | |
| The Baby and the Battleship | 1956 | performer: "Way Back in Tennessee", "That Old Tattooed Lady" - uncredited | |
| Car of Dreams | 1935 | performer: "Car of Dreams" |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Rocking Horse Winner | 1949 | producer | |
| The History of Mr. Polly | 1949 | producer - uncredited |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gypsy Girl | 1966 |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making | 2002 | Video documentary special thanks - as Sir John Mills | |
| To Be on Camera: A History with Hamlet | 1997 | Video documentary short thanks |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 100 Greatest War Films | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (as Sir John Mills) |
| Sir John Mills: A Century in Films | 2005 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Ultimate Film | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Peace One Day | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
| Bob Monkhouse: A BAFTA Tribute | 2004 | TV Special documentary | Himself (as Sir John Mills) |
| Today with Des and Mel | 2003 | TV Series | Himself |
| Arena | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Living Famously | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Forever Ealing | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Interviewee |
| Breakfast with Frost | 2002 | TV Series | Himself |
| This Is Your Life | 1977-2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Friday Night with Jonathan Ross | 2002 | TV Series | Himself |
| Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making | 2002 | Video documentary | Himself (as Sir John Mills) |
| Heroes of Comedy | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Judi Dench: A BAFTA Tribute | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (Guest in audience) |
| Film Genre | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration | 2001 | TV Special documentary | Himself (as Sir John Mills) |
| Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Parkinson | 1977-2001 | TV Series | Himself |
| Sir John Mills' Moving Memories | 2000 | Video documentary | Himself |
| 40 Years on Coronation Street | 2000 | TV Special | Himself - Narrator (voice, as Sir John Mills) |
| Best of British | 1999 | TV Series | Himself - Co-Star Cottage to Let / Co-Star Morning Departure |
| An Audience with Cliff Richard | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Clive Anderson All Talk | 1999 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Troop | 1999 | Short | Himself - Narrator |
| Biography | 1999 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Arena: The Sir Noel Coward Trilogy | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Dennis Pennis R.I.P. | 1997 | Video | Himself |
| The South Bank Show | 1992-1997 | TV Series documentary | Himself / Himself - Presenter, Cinema Award |
| An Audience with Shirley Bassey | 1995 | TV Special | Himself - Audience Member |
| Live for Peace: A Royal Gala | 1995 | TV Movie | Himself |
| An Audience with Bob Monkhouse | 1994 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Audience Member (uncredited) |
| Best of British | 1987-1994 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| The Late Show | 1992 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| This Is Your Life (Highlights from the 1950's and 1960's) | 1991 | TV Movie | Himself |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to David Lean | 1990 | TV Special | Himself (Guest Speaker) |
| The British Comedy Awards 1990 | 1990 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Presenter |
| An Invitation to Remember | 1990 | TV Series | Himself - Interviewee |
| 7th Annual American Cinema Awards | 1990 | TV Special | Himself |
| Cilla's Goodbye to the '80s | 1989 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Royal Variety Performance 1989 | 1989 | TV Movie | Himself |
| One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage | 1988 | TV Movie | Himself (uncredited) |
| The Dame Edna Experience | 1987 | TV Series | Himself |
| Tribute to Her Majesty | 1987 | Documentary | Himself - Presenter / Narrator |
| Aspel & Company | 1987 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 4th Annual American Cinema Awards | 1987 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Best of British Cinema | 1987 | Video short documentary | Narrator (voice, as Sir John Mills) |
| Favourite Things | 1986 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Interviewee |
| The Golden Gong | 1985 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Making of Gandhi: Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi | 1983 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Tommy Steele: A Handful of Songs | 1981 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator |
| Secombe with Music | 1980 | TV Series | Himself |
| The British Greats | 1980 | TV Series | Himself - Interviewee |
| Late Night Story | 1979 | TV Series short | Himself - Reader |
| Peter Couchman Tonight | 1979 | TV Series | Himself |
| Filmharmonic '78 | 1978 | TV Movie | Himself - Introduced by |
| Stars on Sunday | 1977-1978 | TV Series | Himself |
| Fall In, the Stars | 1977 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Night of 100 Stars | 1977 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Elstree Story | 1976 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Morecambe & Wise Show | 1971 | TV Series | Himself |
| Cinema | 1971 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The 43rd Annual Academy Awards | 1971 | TV Special | Himself - Winner: Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
| The Virginia Graham Show | 1971 | TV Series | Himself |
| The British Screen Awards | 1971 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1971 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Irv Kupcinet Show | 1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| The David Frost Show | 1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| Film Night | 1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| Wedding of the Doll | 1968 | Documentary | Himself |
| Film Preview | 1966 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1964 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Five O'Clock Club | 1964 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Danny Kaye Show | 1964 | TV Series | Himself |
| This Is Your Life | 1960-1962 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Film Profile | 1961 | TV Series | Himself |
| Here's Hollywood | 1960 | TV Series | Himself |
| Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium | 1956 | TV Series | Himself |
| Film Fanfare | 1956 | TV Series | Himself |
| This Is Show Business | 1952 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Way to Wimbledon | 1952 | Documentary short | Himself - Commentator |
| Total War in Britain | 1946 | Documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| Land of Promise | 1946 | Documentary | The Voice (voice) |
| Happy Families | 1939 | Documentary short | Fred |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinewood: 80 Years of Movie Magic | 2015 | TV Movie documentary | Pip (uncredited) |
| Talking Pictures | 2013 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff | 2010 | Documentary | Himself - Interviewee |
| Truly, Madly, Cheaply!: British B Movies | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Arthur Haughton (uncredited) |
| Bean: Scenes Unseen | 2007 | Video documentary short | Chairman |
| The 78th Annual Academy Awards | 2006 | TV Special | Himself - Memorial sequence |
| The Orange British Academy Film Awards | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Memorial Tribute |
| 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2006 | TV Special | Himself - In Memoriam |
| Tribute to John Mills | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Heroes of Comedy | 2002 | TV Series documentary | |
| The Sketch Show Story | 2001 | TV Series documentary | |
| Legends | 2000 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Story of Bean | 1997 | TV Special documentary | Chairman (uncredited) |
| Peter Cushing: A One-Way Ticket to Hollywood | 1989 | TV Movie documentary | Dr.Watson |
| The 1950's: Music, Memories & Milestones | 1988 | Video documentary | Himself |
| The Wind and the Bomb | 1986 | Documentary | Jim (uncredited) |
| Clapper Board | 1979 | TV Series | Various |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1960 | TV Series | Father (edited from: Swiss Family Robinson) |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Academy Fellowship | BAFTA Awards | ||
| 1997 | Dilys Powell Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | ||
| 1995 | BFI Fellowship | British Film Institute Awards | ||
| 1980 | Special Award | Evening Standard British Film Awards | ||
| 1971 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Ryan's Daughter (1970) |
| 1971 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture | Ryan's Daughter (1970) |
| 1971 | KCFCC Award | Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Ryan's Daughter (1970) |
| 1967 | Prize San Sebastián | San Sebastián International Film Festival | Best Actor | The Family Way (1966) |
| 1960 | Volpi Cup | Venice Film Festival | Best Actor | Tunes of Glory (1960) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | CableACE | CableACE Awards | Supporting Actor in a Movie or Miniseries | Frankenstein (1992) |
| 1971 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Ryan's Daughter (1970) |
| 1966 | Best Film | Mar del Plata Film Festival | International Competition | Sky West and Crooked (1966) |
| 1961 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best British Actor | Tunes of Glory (1960) |
| 1955 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best British Actor | Hobson's Choice (1954) |
Known for movies
Gandhi (1982)
as The Viceroy
Bean (1997)
as Chairman
Great Expectations (1946)
as Pip
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
as Father