Autographed photo of actor Johnny Mills

John Mills is one of the most popular and beloved actors in England. Over the course of a seventy-year career, he played in more than one hundred and twenty films, including "Goodbye, Mr. Chips", "High Hopes", "Melodies of Glory", "Hobson's Choice", "War and Peace" and others. He enjoyed great prestige in the professional environment — he was a member of the council of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and Mills was awarded the highest awards for his long creative life.

Despite the fact that the actor's parents were not connected with cinema, John, along with his sister Tessa, later known to the whole world as the presenter of the program "Muffin Mule" from the BBC television channel, were interested in theater from childhood. Their mother, being the manager of the theater's box office, sometimes got tickets for productions. John himself performed the role for the first time in the theater of the boys' school in Norwich. There he played his first role in Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the age of 6, and made his debut on the big stage in 1929, playing Hamlet in a production by the famous London theater "Old Vic". Mills got into the cinema in 1932, and already in 1934 he played in the film "Rose of the Tudors", which was significant for his career. So, having become popular, the actor is known for having played in more than 120 films over the course of 70 years.