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| | screenonline: Mills, Sir John (1908-2005) Biography |
 | | This short, wiry former song-and-dance man became one of the most significant of all British film stars, and in his nearly 60-year career appeared in well over a hundred films, as well as substantial theatre and TV performances. |
 | | Asquith, 1945) defined a new kind of British film hero: he is the boy-next-door in his ordinariness, but he has also established an everyman reliability under stress; he is decent, brave and loyal; and he works enough subtle mutations on the type to avoid mere repetition. |
 | | Though very deaf and part-blind, he still evinced the chipper persona honed below (occasionally above) decks in those war films half a century earlier. |
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