Sir John Mills, 97; Acclaimed British Actor Best Known for Wartime Roles
LA Times
Sir John Mills, the Academy Award-winning actor and patriarch of one of Britain’s leading theatrical families, died Saturday. He was 97.
Mills, the father of actresses Hayley and Juliet Mills, died at his home in Denham, west of London, after a short illness.
Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1976, Mills was a onetime West End musical comedy song and dance man whose versatile career spanned more than 70 years and more than 100 movies.
Mills won an Oscar and a Golden Globe as best supporting actor for his role as the brain-damaged mute villager in “Ryan’s Daughter,” David Lean’s 1970 romantic drama set in Ireland during World War I.
