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Ray Milland is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Associate Producer and Technical Advisor British born on 4 january 1907 at Wales (United-kingdom)

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Birth name Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 4 january 1907 at Wales (United-kingdom)
Death 10 march 1986 (at 79 years) at Torrance (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Actor

Ray Milland (3 January 1907
– 10 March 1986) was a Welsh actor and director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best remembered for his Academy Award–winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945), a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind (1942), the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder (1954), and as Oliver Barrett III in Love Story (1970).

Before becoming an actor, Milland served in the Household Cavalry of the British Army, becoming a proficient marksman, horse-rider and aeroplane pilot. He left the army to follow a career in acting and appeared as an extra in several British productions before getting his first major role in The Flying Scotsman. This led to a nine-month contract with MGM and he moved to the United States where he appeared as a stock actor. After being released by MGM he was picked up by Paramount, who used Milland in a range of lesser speaking parts, normally as an English character. He was loaned out to Universal in 1936 for a film called Three Smart Girls, and its success saw Milland given a lead role in The Jungle Princess alongside new starlet Dorothy Lamour. The film was a big success and catapulted both to stardom. Milland remained with Paramount for almost 20 years and as well as his Oscar winning role in The Lost Weekend he is remembered for the films The Big Clock, The Major and the Minor and The Thief, the last of which saw him nominated for a Golden Globe. After leaving Paramount he began directing and ended his career moving into television.

Milland, who was at one time Paramount Pictures highest paid actor, co-starred alongside many of the most popular actresses of the time including Gene Tierney, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Marlene Dietrich, Ginger Rogers, Jane Wyman, Loretta Young and Veronica Lake.

Biography

Milland was married to Muriel Frances Weber, from 1932 until his death in 1986. They had a son, Daniel (b.1940) and an adopted daughter, Victoria. Milland was rumoured to have had an affair with co-star Grace Kelly, whilst filming Dial M for Murder.

Milland had a tattoo on his upper right arm of a skull with a snake curled up on top of it with the tail of the snake sticking out through one of the eyes. The tattoo can be seen for a brief moment in the movie Her Jungle Love (1938).

Milland's son, Daniel Milland, appeared in several minor acting roles in the 1960s. He died in March 1981, at the age of 41, in an apparent suicide. An AR-7 .22 calibre Survival Rifle was found next to him on his bed and he had a wound to his head.

Milland died of lung cancer in Torrance, California, on 10 March 1986, aged 79. He was survived by his wife, the former Muriel Weber, and his daughter.

Best films

(1970)
(Actor)

(1945)
(Actor)

(1942)
(Actor)

(1941)
(Actor)

Usually with

Hans Dreier
(32 films)

Edith Head
(28 films)

Victor Young
(22 films)

Mitchell Leisen
(11 films)

Bess Flowers
(12 films)

Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ray Milland (138 films)

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Year	Name	Job	Roles
1995	Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey	Actor	Don Birnam (archive footage) (uncredited)
1985	The Sea Serpent	Actor	Professor Timothy Wallace
1984	Terror in the Aisles	Actor
1984	The Masks of Death	Actor	Home Secretary
1983	Cave-In!	Actor	Prof. Harrison Soames
1983	Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land	Actor	Q. T. Thornwell
1982	Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid	Actor	(in "The Lost Weekend") (archive footage)
1980	The Attic	Actor	Wendell
1979	Game for Vultures	Actor	Colonal Brettle
1978	Oliver's Story	Actor	Oliver Barrett III
1978	Blackout	Actor	Richard Stafford
1977	The Pyjama Girl Case	Actor	Inspector Thompson
1977	The Uncanny	Actor	Frank Richards
1977	Oil	Actor	Boss Stewart
1977	Mayday at 40,000 Feet	Actor	Dr. Joseph Mannheim
1977	The Pyjama Girl Case	Actor	Inspector Thompson
1976	The Last Tycoon	Actor	Fleishacker
1976	Aces High	Actor	Brigadier General Whale
1976	The Swiss Conspiracy	Actor	Johann Hurtil
1976	Rich Man, Poor Man (TV miniseries)	Actor	Duncan Calderwood
1976	Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby	Actor	Roman Castevet
1975	Escape to Witch Mountain	Actor	Aristotle Bolt
1974	Gold	Actor	Hurry Hirschfeld
1973	The Big Game	Actor	Pete Handley
1973	Terror in the Wax Museum	Actor	Harry Flexner
1973	The House in Nightmare Park	Actor	Stewart Henderson
1972	Frogs	Actor	Jason Crockett
1972	The Thing with Two Heads	Actor	Maxwell Kirshner
1972	Embassy	Actor	Ambassador
1971	Black Noon	Actor	Caleb Hobbs
1970	Love Story	Actor	Oliver Barrett III
1969	Daughter of the Mind	Actor	Prof. Samuel Hale Constable
1968	Hostile Witness	Actor, Director	Simon Crawford
1964	The Confession	Actor	Mario Forni
1963	X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes	Actor	James Xavier
1962	Panic in Year Zero!	Actor, Director	Harry Baldwin
1962	The Premature Burial	Actor	Guy Carrell
1961	King of Kings	Actor	Satan (voice) (uncredited)
1958	The Safecracker	Actor, Director, Story	Colley Dawson
1957	The River's Edge	Actor	Nardo Denning
1957	High Flight	Actor	Wing Commander Rudge
1956	Lisbon	Actor, Director, Associate Producer	Robert John Evans
1956	Three Brave Men	Actor	Joe DiMarco
1955	The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing	Actor	Stanford White
1955	A Man Alone	Actor, Director	Wes Steele
1954	Dial M for Murder	Actor	Tony Wendice
1953	Let's Do It Again	Actor	Gary Stuart
1953	Jamaica Run	Actor	Patrick Fairlie
1952	Bugles in the Afternoon	Actor	Kern Shafter
1952	Something to Live For	Actor	Alan Miller
1952	The Thief	Actor	Allan Fields
1951	Circle of Danger	Actor	Clay Douglas
1951	Close to My Heart	Actor	Brad Sheridan
1951	Rhubarb	Actor	Eric Yeager
1951	Night Into Morning	Actor	Philip Ainley
1950	A Life of Her Own	Actor	Steve Harleigh
1950	Copper Canyon	Actor, Director, Scriptwriter	Johnny Carter
1950	A Woman of Distinction	Actor	Alexander "Alec" Stevenson
1949	Alias Nick Beal	Actor	Nick Beal
1949	It Happens Every Spring	Actor	Vernon Simpson
1948	Miss Tatlock's Millions	Actor	Himself
1948	Sealed Verdict	Actor	Robert Lawson
1948	So Evil My Love	Actor	Mark Bellis
1948	The Big Clock	Actor	George Stroud
1947	California	Actor	Jonathan Trumbo
1947	Golden Earrings	Actor	Ralph Denistoun
1947	Variety Girl	Actor	Ray Milland
1947	The Trouble with Women	Actor	Gilbert Sedley
1946	The Well Groomed Bride	Actor	Dudley Briggs
1946	The Imperfect Lady	Actor	Clive Loring
1945	Kitty	Actor	Sir Hugh Marcy
1945	The Lost Weekend	Actor	Don Birnam
1944	Ministry of Fear	Actor	Stephen Neale
1944	Lady in the Dark	Actor	Charley Johnson
1944	Till We Meet Again	Actor	John
1944	The Uninvited	Actor	Roderick Fitzgerald
1943	The Crystal Ball	Actor	Brad Cavanaugh
1943	Forever and a Day	Actor	Bill Trimble
1942	Reap the Wild Wind	Actor	Stephen Tolliver
1942	The Lady Has Plans	Actor	Kenneth Clarence Harper
1942	The Major and the Minor	Actor	Philip Kirby
1942	My Favorite Blonde	Actor
1942	Star Spangled Rhythm	Actor	Joe
1942	Are Husbands Necessary?	Actor	George Cugat
1941	Sullivan's Travels	Actor	Near-Collision Man (uncredited)
1941	Skylark	Actor	Tony Kenyon
1941	I Wanted Wings	Actor	Jeff Young
1940	Arise, My Love	Actor	Tom Martin
1940	The Doctor Takes a Wife	Actor	Timothy Sterling
1940	French Without Tears	Actor	Alan Howard
1940	Irene	Actor	Don Marshall
1940	Untamed	Actor	William Crawford
1940	The Doctor Takes a Wife	Actor	Timothy Sterling
1939	Beau Geste	Actor	John Geste
1939	Everything Happens at Night	Actor	Geoffrey Thompson
1939	Hotel Imperial	Actor	Lieutenant Nemassy
1938	Tropic Holiday	Actor	Ken Warren
1938	Her Jungle Love	Actor	Bob Mitchell
1938	Men with Wings	Actor	Scott Barnes
1938	Say It in French	Actor	Richard Carrington, Jr.
1937	Easy Living	Actor	John Ball Jr.
1937	Bulldog Drummond Escapes	Actor	Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond
1937	Wings Over Honolulu	Actor	Richard "Stony" Gilchrist
1937	Wise Girl	Actor	John O'Halloran
1937	Ebb Tide	Actor	Robert Herrick
1936	The Jungle Princess	Actor	Christopher Powell
1936	Three Smart Girls	Actor	Lord Michael Stuart
1936	The Big Broadcast of 1937	Actor	Bob Miller
1936	Next Time We Love	Actor	Tommy Abbott (as Raymond Milland)
1936	The Return of Sophie Lang	Actor	Jimmy Dawson
1935	Four Hours to Kill!	Actor	Carl Barrett
1935	The Gilded Lily	Actor	Charles Gray (Lord Granton)
1935	The Glass Key	Actor	Taylor Henry
1935	Alias Mary Dow	Actor	Peter Marshall
1934	We're Not Dressing	Actor	Michael Stofani
1934	Bolero	Actor	Robert Coray
1934	Charlie Chan in London	Actor	Neil Howard
1934	Many Happy Returns	Actor	Ted Lambert
1934	One Hour Late	Actor	Tony St. John
1933	Orders Is Orders	Actor	Dashwood
1932	The Man Who Played God	Actor	Eddie (uncredited)
1932	Payment Deferred	Actor	James Medland
1932	Polly of the Circus	Actor	Church Usher (uncredited)
1932	But the Flesh Is Weak	Actor	Mr. Stewart
1932	Polly of the Circus	Actor	Church Usher (uncredited)
1931	Ambassador Bill	Actor	King Lothar
1931	The Bachelor Father	Actor	Geoffrey Trent
1931	Blonde Crazy	Actor	Joe Reynolds
1931	Just a Gigolo	Actor	Freddie
1931	Strangers May Kiss	Actor	3rd Admirer
1931	Bought!	Actor	Charles Carter Jr.
1930	Way for a Sailor	Actor	Ship's Officer
1930	Passion Flower	Actor	Party Guest with Letter (uncredited)
1929	The Flying Scotsman	Actor	Jim Edwards
1929	The Informer	Actor, Technical Advisor	Sharpshooter
1929	Piccadilly	Actor	Diner in Nightclub (uncredited)
1929	The Plaything	Actor	Ian
1928	Moulin Rouge	Actor	Theater Patron (uncredited)