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James Millican is a Actor American born on 17 february 1910 at The Palisades (USA)

James Millican

James Millican
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Nationality USA
Birth 17 february 1910 at The Palisades (USA)
Death 24 november 1955 (at 45 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

James Millican (1911–1955) was an American actor with over 200 film appearances mostly in western movies. He was a close associate of cowboy star "Wild" Bill Elliott, staging a number of personal-appearance rodeos on Elliott's behalf. Millican was sent to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's dramatic school directly after graduating from University of Southern California.

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Filmography of James Millican (102 films)

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Red Sundown, 1h21
Directed by Jack Arnold
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Rory Calhoun, Martha Hyer, Dean Jagger, Robert Middleton, Grant Williams, James Millican
Roles Purvis
Rating64% 3.23983.23983.23983.23983.2398
A gunfighter decides to change his ways after nearly losing his life. He reforms, becoming a deputy to an honest sheriff and falling in love with the sheriff's daughter.
Chief Crazy Horse, 1h26
Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Victor Mature, John Lund, Ray Danton, Keith Larsen, Paul Guilfoyle (acteur, 1902-1961), David Janssen
Roles General Crook
Rating60% 3.044023.044023.044023.044023.04402
Évocation de la vie du chef sioux Crazy Horse, valeureux et visionnaire.
I Died a Thousand Times, 1h35
Directed by Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin, Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Roles Jack Kranmer
Rating63% 3.1960553.1960553.1960553.1960553.196055
Roy "Mad Dog" Earle (Jack Palance), an aging bank robber, intends to pull off one last heist before retiring.
Top Gun
Top Gun (1955)

Directed by Ray Nazarro
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Sterling Hayden, Karin Booth, James Millican, Regis Toomey, Hugh Sanders, John Dehner
Roles Marshal Bat Davis
Rating61% 3.098223.098223.098223.098223.09822
Rick Martin arrives in a small town warning of an impending attack by his old gang.
The Man from Laramie, 1h44
Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors James Stewart, John Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell, Alex Nicol, Aline MacMahon
Roles Tom Quigby
Rating72% 3.6475953.6475953.6475953.6475953.647595
Will Lockhart (James Stewart) becomes entangled in the happenings of Coronado, an isolated western town, after delivering supplies there from Laramie. He immediately ends up at odds with the Waggomans, an influential ranching family. Lockhart is quietly searching for information about someone selling repeating rifles to the local Apaches; his brother, an Army cavalry trooper, was killed in an Apache attack at Dutch Creek.
Strategic Air Command, 1h52
Directed by Anthony Mann, Bernard McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy, Bruce Bennett, Barry Sullivan, Alex Nicol
Roles Rusty Castle
Rating62% 3.1489253.1489253.1489253.1489253.148925
Robert "Dutch" Holland (James Stewart) is a professional baseball player with the St. Louis Cardinals,. A B-29 bomber pilot during World War II, he is also an officer on inactive status in the United States Air Force Reserve. During spring training in St. Petersburg, Florida, he is recalled to active duty for 21 months. He reports to his posting at Carswell AFB, a bomber base in Fort Worth, Texas to qualify in the Convair B-36. He arrives in civilian clothing because his old uniforms are those of the old U.S. Army Air Forces. This is to the great displeasure of General Hawkes (Frank Lovejoy), the commander of SAC. The General's character is patterned after the real SAC commander of the time, General Curtis LeMay.
The Long Wait, 1h34
Directed by Victor Saville
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn, Gene Evans, Peggie Castle, Mary Ellen Kay, Shirley Patterson
Roles Police Capt. Lindsay
Rating63% 3.187623.187623.187623.187623.18762
Johnny McBride is badly hurt while hitch hiking and loses his memory when the car he is riding in crashes. Two years later, a clue leads him to his old home town, where he finds he is a murder suspect. McBride tries to clear his name of the presumed murder charges. Thugs working for the local mob boss try to end his meddling.
The Outcast, 1h30
Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors John Derek, Joan Evans, Jim Davis, Catherine McLeod, Ben Cooper, Nana Bryant
Roles Cal Prince
Rating63% 3.195363.195363.195363.195363.19536
Grâce à la tromperie de son oncle tordu, le major Cosgrave, Jet a été escroqué de la propriété de son père et qualifié de paria. Il passe le reste du film à essayer de retrouver son droit d'aînesse et d'effacer son nom. Les deux femmes dans la vie de Jet sont Judy Polsen, qui le poursuit depuis si longtemps qu'il finit par la rattraper, et Alice Austin, la fiancée du Major Cosgrave.
Riding Shotgun, 1h13
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris, Wayne Morris (acteur britannique), Joan Weldon, Charles Bronson, Joe Sawyer
Roles Dan Marady
Rating63% 3.194933.194933.194933.194933.19493
Stagecoach guard Larry Delong is ambushed by a gang of outlaws associated with a man he's searching for, Dan Marady, who murdered Delong's sister and nephew. But when he returns to the town of Deep Water, nearly everyone there believes that Delong was involved in the holdup, in which the stage driver was killed.
Dawn at Socorro, 1h20
Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Rory Calhoun, Piper Laurie, David Brian, Kathleen Hughes, Alex Nicol, Edgar Buchanan
Roles Harry McNair
Rating63% 3.199293.199293.199293.199293.19929
Un tueur voudrait s'amender mais tout se ligue contre lui.
A Lion Is in the Streets, 1h28
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors James Cagney, Barbara Hale, Anne Francis, Warner Anderson, John McIntire, Jeanne Cagney
Roles Samuel T. Beach
Rating60% 3.0476953.0476953.0476953.0476953.047695
Charismatic roving peddler Hank Martin (James Cagney) falls in love at first sight with schoolteacher Verity Wade (Barbara Hale) and soon marries her. On their wedding day, he rents a ramshackle home from his upper class lawyer friend Jules Bolduc (Warner Anderson). Hank rounds up some of his many friends to fix up the place, but Verity begins to realize that he is not as nice as he appears to be; while they do the work, he sees nothing wrong in going inside to read a law book. He confides to her that it is all a matter of manipulating people the right way.
The Stranger Wore a Gun, 1h23
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon, George Macready, Lee Marvin, Alfonso Bedoya
Roles William Clarke
Rating58% 2.94812.94812.94812.94812.9481
Jeff Travis (Randolph Scott), a former spy for Quantrill's Raiders, rides to Arizona to start a new life. Finding that his reputation has preceded him, crooked Jules Mourret (George Macready) hires him to monitor a series of gold shipments, in preparation for a major robbery. Travis falls in love with Shelby Conroy (Joan Weldon), daughter of freight-line operator Jason Conroy (Pierre Watkin), and decides to turn honest.
Gun Belt
Gun Belt (1953)

Directed by Ray Nazarro
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors George Montgomery, Tab Hunter, Helen Westcott, John Dehner, Jack Elam, James Millican
Roles Wyatt Earp
Rating58% 2.906752.906752.906752.906752.90675
A former outlaw clashes with his old gang. Ringo decides to hang up his guns, buy a ranch and wed Arlene Reach (Helen Westcott) . Chip’s father, Matt (John Dehner), is serving a prison sentence and Billy is determined to keep him off the outlaw trail. Ringo is trying to keep on the straight and narrow, with three other outlaws, Dixon, Hollaway and Hoke, frame Ringo into pulling a bank robbery with them. Pretending to side with them, after accidentally killing Matt, Ringo informs Marshal Wyatt Earp of their plan to rob a Wells Fargo express wagon. A gunfight ensues at the robbery and the three outlaws are killed and Ike Clinton, the ringleader, is turned over to Marshal Earp by Ringo.
The Silver Whip, 1h13
Directed by Harmon Jones
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Dale Robertson, Rory Calhoun, Robert Wagner, Lola Albright, Kathleen Crowley, J. M. Kerrigan
Roles Luke Bowen
Rating65% 3.2906053.2906053.2906053.2906053.290605
Cocky young drifter Jess Harker wants to be a driver on the stagecoach's main line, just like Race Crim, his hero. The coach line's boss, Luke Bowen, doesn't believe Jess is ready yet.