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Sir John Mills CBE (22 February 190823 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). ==Early life== Mills was born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills in Felixstowe, Suffolk, the son of Edith (Baker), a theatre box office manager, and Lewis Mills, a mathematics teacher. He lived in a modest house in Gainsborough Road Felixstowe until 1929. His older sister was Annette Mills, remembered as presenter of BBC Television's ''Muffin the Mule'' (1946–55). He was educated at Balham Grammar School in London, Sir John Leman High School in Beccles, Suffolk and Norwich High School for Boys,〔Brian McFarlane, ‘Mills, Sir John Lewis Ernest Watts (1908–2005)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Jan 2009 (available online ). Retrieved 28 August 2012.〕〔Mills, John. Chapter 1 ''Up in the Clouds, Gentleman Please'' Published by Orion.〕 where it is said that his initials can still be seen carved into the brickwork on the side of the building in Upper St. Giles Street. Upon leaving school he worked as a clerk at a corn merchants in Ipswich before finding employment in London as a commercial traveller for the Sanitas Disinfectant Company. In September 1939, at the start of the Second World War, Mills enlisted in the British Army in the Royal Engineers.〔 He was later commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, but in 1942 he received a medical discharge because of a stomach ulcer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=British actor: Lewis Ernest Watts Mills )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Mills」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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