John MILLS CBE (1908-2005)

John Mills This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 143
  • Subject No: 143
  • Broadcast live: Mon 19 Dec 1960
  • Broadcast time: 7.30-8.00pm
  • Repeated: Wed 28 Aug 1963 9.25pm
  • Venue: BBC Television Theatre
  • Series: 6
  • Edition: 14

on the guest list...

  • Sir Frederick Wells
  • Zelia Raye
  • Roma Beaumont
  • James Grant Anderson
  • Louise Browne
  • Tyrone Guthrie
  • Mary Hayley Bell - wife
  • Sheila Sim
  • Lord Fraser
  • Jonathan - son
  • Hamlet - dog
  • Hayley Mills - daughter
  • members of the London Scottish Pipes and Drums
  • Filmed tribute:
  • Juliet Mills - daughter

production team...

  • Researcher: Nickola Sterne
  • Writer: Nickola Sterne
  • Director: Michael Goodwin
  • Producer: T Leslie Jackson
  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
related pages...

John Mills

second tribute


An Actor's Life For Me

spotlight on the stars


Life Second Time Around

surprised again!


Family Life

keeping it in the family


Hayley Mills


Juliet Mills

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John Mills autobiography

John Mills recalls his experience of This Is Your Life in his book, Still Memories an Autobiography in Photography...


In 1960 I was caught for This Is Your Life and it was brilliantly done.


I had been around filming at Pinewood Studios.


We finished at 6.30 and my driver, Jolly, came into the dressing room and said, 'I'm terribly sorry. We're being delayed by at least three-quarters of an hour because of a puncture on the Rolls.'


When we left, finally, I was not in the best of moods. It had been a long day, and I wanted to get home.


At the studio gate we stopped. There was a blaze of light and about five cameras, and then Eamonn Andrews stepped forward and said, 'John Mills – This Is Your Life.'

Series 6 subjects

Leonard Cheshire | George Bennett | David Sheppard | Sybil Thorndike | Clarence Wolfe | Charles Coward | T E B Clarke
Helene Jeanty-Raven | Cyril Smith | Victor de Spiganovicz | Bill Hartley | Ellen Martha Field | Anthony Deane-Drummond
John Mills | Richard Bancroft | Freddie Mills | William Simpson | Alan Herbert | Madame Vacani | Elizabeth Ambridge | Robert Fawcus
Flora Robson | Edward Chad Varah | James Zarb | Maryan Rawicz and Walter Landauer | James Chipperfield | Anthony Kimmins
Thomas Cosmo Jones | Jessie Matthews | Helen Wilson | Charlie Chester | Brunel Cohen | Godfrey Winn | Billy Wright