Ray Milland

Ray Milland

Date of Birth
3 January 1905,
Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Date of Death
10 March 1986,
Torrance, California, USA (lung cancer)

Birth Name
Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones

Height
6' 2" (1.88 m)

Spouse
Muriel Frances Weber (30 September 1932 - 10 March 1986) (his death) 2 children

Trivia
When working on I Wanted Wings (1941), with Brian Donlevy and William Holden, he went up with a pilot to test a plane for filming. While up in the air, Ray decided to do a parachute jump (being an avid amateur parachutist) but, just before he could disembark, the plane began to sputter and the pilot said not to jump as they were running low on gas and he needed to land. Well, once on the ground and in the hangar, Ray began to tell his story of how he'd wanted to do a jump. As he told the story, the color ran out of the costume man's face. When asked why, he told Ray that the parachute he'd worn up in the plane was "just a prop". There had been no parachute!.

Ray Milland got his stage name from a riverside street called Milland Road in Neath, where he resided prior to becoming an actor.

During the filming of Reap the Wild Wind (1942), Milland's character was to have "curly" hair. Milland's hair was naturally straight, so the studio used hot curling irons on his hair to achieve the effect. Milland felt that it was this procedure that caused him to go prematurely bald forcing him to go from leading man to supporting player earlier than he would have wished.

Father of Dan Milland and adoptive father of Victoria Milland.

Has 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).

Had a near-fatal accident on the set of Hotel Imperial (1939). One scene called for him to lead a cavalry charge through a small village. An accomplished horseman, Milland insisted upon doing this scene himself. As he was making a scripted jump on the horse, his saddle came loose, sending him flying straight into a pile of broken masonary. Laid up in the hospital for weeks with multiple fractures and lacerations, he was lucky to be alive.

Was the first choice for the Don Ameche role in Trading Places (1983).

He is the only winner of the Best Actor Oscar (for The Lost Weekend (1945)) to have uttered not a single word during his acceptance speech opting, instead, to simply bow his appreciation before casually exiting the stage.

First performer to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar for the same role (for The Lost Weekend (1945)).

Only got the lead role in The Lost Weekend (1945)) because Paramount vetoed writer-director Billy Wilder's first choice for the role, Broadway actor José Ferrer. Hedging its bets, Paramount demanded the casting of a star to headline the risky production, but Cary Grant and most of the other leading male stars of the day turned Wilder down. Milland got the role by default and won an Oscar.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 628-629. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

The first Welsh actor to receive an Academy Award. After he died rumors spread that his Oscar had been lost. A Welsh newspaper interviewed his daughter Vicki, and when asked about this missing Oscar, she told them, "It's downstairs in our guest room." One of Milland's two grandsons, Travis, now had his Oscar.

As of 2011 is one of three actors who have won Best Actor at the Oscars and at the Cannes Film Festival for the same performance. The others are Jon Voight in Coming Home (1978) and William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985).

Until the age of five, spoke only Welsh.

Once, while on a visit to Tijuana, the FBI accused him (falsely) of meeting with a suspected Nazi agent.

Spoke fluent Spanish.

An expert marksman, he won several prestigious English shooting competitions, among them the Risley Match. He almost certainly won the Army Operational Shooting Competition, held at Bisley Camp. There is a shooting club in Risley, but the AOSC is the main shooting competition in the UK.

At the age of 15, while working on a tramp steamer, he got a snake tattoo on his arm (much to the horror of his mother.) Later, he said getting the tattoo was one of his biggest regrets.

At the age of 18, Milland enlisted in the Household Guards for 4 years active duty and 8 years' reserve. As part of his training, he became skilled in fencing, boxing, horsemanship and marksmanship.

A licensed pilot, he tried to enlist in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, but was rejected due to an "impaired left hand." Instead he worked as a civilian flight instructor for the Army and also toured with the USO in the South Pacific.

Had a terrible accident during the filming of Hotel Imperial (1939), when, taking his horse over a jump, the saddle-girth broke and he landed head-first on a pile of bricks. His most serious injuries were a concussion that left him unconscious for 24 hours, a 3-inch gash in his skull that took 9 stitches to close, and numerous fractures and lacerations on his left hand.

He was paired romantically with actress Paulette Goddard in four films, including the blockbusters Reap the Wild Wind (1942) and Kitty (1945). In his autobiography, he wrote that Goddard was "wise, humorous, and with absolutely no illusions." He further claimed that she was the hardest working actress that he had ever worked with.

Mini Biography
Ray Milland became one of Paramount's most bankable and durable stars, under contract from 1934 to 1948, yet little in his early life suggested a career as a motion picture actor. Born in the Welsh town of Neath, Glamorgan, in 1905, he spent his youth in the pursuit of sports. He became an expert rider early on, working at his uncle's horse-breeding estate while studying at the King's College in Cardiff. At 21, he went to London as a member of the elite Household Cavalry (Guard for the Royal Family), undergoing a rigorous 19-months training, further honing his equestrian skills, as well as becoming adept at fencing, boxing and shooting. He won trophies, including the Bisley Match, with his unit's crack rifle team. However, after four years, he suddenly lost his means of financial support (independent income being a requirement as a Guardsman) when his stepfather discontinued his allowance. Broke, he tried his hand at acting in small parts on the London stage.

There are several stories as to how he derived his stage name. It is known, that during his teens he called himself "Mullane", using his stepfather's surname. He may later have suffused "Mullane" with "mill-lands", an area near his hometown. When he first appeared on screen in British films, he was billed first as Spike Milland, then Raymond Milland.

In 1929, Ray befriended the popular actress Estelle Brody at a party and, later that year, visited her on the set of her latest film, The Plaything (1929). While having lunch, they were joined by a producer who persuaded the handsome Welshman to appear in a motion picture bit part. Ray rose to the challenge and bigger roles followed, including the male lead in The Lady from the Sea (1929). The following year, he was signed by MGM and went to Hollywood, but was given little to work with, except for the role of Charles Laughton's ill-fated nephew in Payment Deferred (1932). After a year, Ray was out of his contract and returned to England.

His big break did not come until 1934 when he joined Paramount, where he was to remain for the better part of his Hollywood career. During the first few years, he served an apprenticeship playing second leads, usually as the debonair man-about-town, in light romantic comedies. He appeared with Burns and Allen in Many Happy Returns (1934), enjoyed third-billing as a British aristocrat in the Claudette Colbert farce The Gilded Lily (1935) and was described as "excellent" by reviewers for his role in the sentimental drama Alias Mary Dow (1935). By 1936, he had graduated to starring roles, first as the injured British hunter rescued on a tropical island by The Jungle Princess (1936), the film which launched Dorothy Lamour's sarong-clad career. After that, he was the titular hero of Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937) and, finally, won the girl (rather than being the "other man") in Mitchell Leisen's screwball comedy Easy Living (1937) (both 1937). He also re-visited the tropics in Ebb Tide (1937) (both 1937), Her Jungle Love (1938) and Tropic Holiday (1938) (both 1938), as well as being one of the three valiant brothers of Beau Geste (1939).

In 1940, Ray was sent back to England to star in the screen adaptation of Terence Rattigan's French Without Tears (1940), for which he received his best critical reviews to date. He was top-billed (above John Wayne) running a ship salvage operation in Cecil B. DeMille's lavish Technicolor adventure drama Reap the Wild Wind (1942), besting Wayne in a fight - much to the "Duke's" personal chagrin - and later wrestling with a giant octopus. Also that year, he was directed by Billy Wilder in a charming comedy, The Major and the Minor (1942) (co-starred with Ginger Rogers), for which he garnered good notices from Bosley Crowther of the New York Times. Ray then played a ghost hunter in The Uninvited (1944), and the suave hero caught in a web of espionage in Fritz Lang's thriller Ministry of Fear (1944) (both 1944).

On the strength of his previous role as "Major Kirby", Billy Wilder chose to cast Ray against type in the ground-breaking drama The Lost Weekend (1945) as dipsomaniac writer "Don Birnam". Ray gave the defining performance of his career, his intensity catching critics, used to him as a lightweight leading man, by surprise. Crowther commented "Mr. Milland, in a splendid performance, catches all the ugly nature of a 'drunk', yet reveals the inner torment and degradation of a respectable man who knows his weakness and his shame" (New York Times, December 3, 1945). Arrived at the high point of his career, Ray Milland won the Oscar for Best Actor, as well as the New York Critic's Award. Rarely given such good material again, he nonetheless featured memorably in many more splendid films, often exploiting the newly discovered "darker side" of his personality: as the reporter framed for murder by Charles Laughton's heinous publishing magnate in The Big Clock (1948); as the sophisticated, manipulating art thief "Mark Bellis" in the Victorian melodrama So Evil My Love (1948) (for which producer Hal B. Wallis sent him back to England); as a Fedora-wearing, Armani-suited "Lucifer", trawling for the soul of an honest District Attorney in The Contact Man (1949); and as a traitorous scientist in The Thief (1952), giving what critics described as a "sensitive" and "towering" performance. In 1954, Ray played calculating ex-tennis champ "Tom Wendice", who blackmails a former Cambridge chump into murdering his wife, in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder (1954). He played the part with urbane sophistication and cold detachment throughout, even in the scene of denouement, calmly offering a drink to the arresting officers.

With Lisbon (1956) in 1956, Ray Milland moved into another direction, turning out several off-beat, low-budget films with himself as the lead, notably The Safecracker (1958) and Panic in Year Zero! (1962). At the same time, he cheerfully made the transition to character parts, often in horror and sci-fi outings. In accordance with his own dictum of appearing in anything that had "any originality", he worked on two notable pictures with Roger Corman: first, as a man obsessed with catalepsy in Premature Burial (1962); secondly, as obsessed self-destructive surgeon "Dr. Xavier" in X (1963)-the Man with X-Ray Eyes, a film which, despite its low budget, won the 1963 Golden Asteroid in the Trieste Festival for Science Fiction.

As the years went on, Ray gradually disposed of his long-standing toupee, lending dignity through his presence to many run-of-the-mill television films, such as Cave In! (1983) (TV) and maudlin melodramas like Love Story (1970). He guest-starred in many anthology series on television and had notable roles in Rod Serling's "Night Gallery" (1969) and the original "Battlestar Galactica" (1978) (as Quorum member Sire Uri). He also enjoyed a brief run on Broadway, starring as "Simon Crawford" in "Hostile Witness" (1966), at the Music Box Theatre.

In his private life, Ray was an enthusiastic yachtsman, who loved fishing and collecting information by reading the Encyclopedia Brittanica. In later years, he became very popular with interviewers because of his candid spontaneity and humour. In the same self-deprecating vein he wrote an anecdotal biography, "Wide-Eyed in Babylon", in 1976. A film star, as well as an outstanding actor, Ray Milland died of cancer at the age of 81 in March 1986.
IMDb Mini Biography By: I.S.Mowis

Personal Quotes
The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat.

[on Louella Parsons] "She never forgot a thing and, by the same token, never forgave anyone who crossed her. But she was never vicious.

[on Hedda Hopper] She was venomous, vicious, a pathological liar, and quite stupid.

The Celtic mind in its lonely moments is a tumbling sea of love and compassion and romanticism and neurotic hates.

[when asked why he had appeared in so many bad films late in his career] For the money, old chap, for the money!

Ronald Reagan and George Murphy are very, very good men. They're really patriots. The word is overdone, but in their case it really applies.

Now the stars walk around in supermarkets dressed in blue jeans. It's depressing. I really think the fault lies with that "Method" school of acting in New York. They want to be real natural, you know, real folk. Well, God, every street corner you go around has real folks. Yo don't look for that in world stars. The entertainment business is a fantasy world. I don't think any female star should be seen doing the laundry. Hollywood was built on glamour, and they'd better get it back as soon as they can.

I keep playing neurotics because I'm a Welshman, and so I'm supposed to be moody. That's what people keep telling me I am, anyway. But I don't think Welshmen are any more moody than normal. It's the rest of the world that's out of step.

I go to the cinema to be entertained, not depressed.

My only desire politically is to shoot a few of the politicians. I'm not saying who. But I'm not tempted to become one myself, I couldn't stand dragging my family through all that muck.

[on how he came to attend the 1946 Oscar ceremonies] On the day it dawned I knew I couldn't face it and made up my mind not to attend. At breakfast I hesitantly told Mal [his wife] of my decision. She slowly put down her fork and just examined me. I didn't know where to look. Then she said, "I know that you're erratic, volatile, and the possessor of a foul temper. But I never thought you were a coward!" Then with a look as cold as a Canadian nun, she said, "You'll go the that ceremony tonight if we have to put you in a straitjacket".

[After doing Arise, My Love (1940)] I called up my wife long distance and said, "Mal honey, when this picture comes out I'm finished. Sell everything we've got and we'll try to start a new life somewhere else". Then it came out and was an enormous hit which really boosted my career - that shows you how much I knew in those days.

[Of Paulette Goddard] She is the most honest actress I ever knew.

[on Ronald Reagan] I attended a meeting of the full membership of the Screen Actors Guild held in the Hollywood Legion Stadium, and up in the ring presiding over it was the best president the Guild ever had, Ronald Reagan, now Governor of California. He had a tough job directing the traffic that night, what with calls to the barricades by a lot of coffeehouse characters, wailing about the violence outside studio gates. Hell, the only violent activity I ever saw outside a studio gate was over at Republic one morning when Vera Ralston lost her skate key.

My philosophy is do what you can with what you've got. I know actors from my generation who cry 'Why don't they send me any scripts?' I tell them, 'Because you still think of yourself as a leading man. You're 68, not 38. Face it.'

Filmography

Actor
1985 The Gold Key (video)...Carl Bruhn
1984 The Masks of Death (TV movie)...Home Secretary
1984 Serpiente de mar...Professor Timothy Wallace
1982-1983 Hart to Hart (TV series)
– Long Lost Love (1983) … Steven Edwards
– My Hart Belongs to Daddy (1982) … Stephen Harrison Edwards
1983 Cave In! (TV movie)...Professor Harrison Soames
1983 Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (TV movie)...Q. T. Thornwell
1982 The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana (TV movie)...Mr. Griffiths
1981 Our Family Business (TV movie)...Tony
1980 The Attic...Wendell
1980 The Dream Merchants (TV movie)...Lawrence Radford
1980 Charlie's Angels (TV series)– One Love... Two Angels: Part 1 (1980) … Oliver Barrow
1979 The Love Boat (TV series)
– Buddy and Portia's Story/Julie's Story/Carol and Doug's Story/Peter and Alicia's Story: Part 1 (1979) … Peter Bradbury
– Buddy and Portia's Story/Julie's Story/Carol and Doug's Story/Peter and Alicia's Story: Part 2 (1979) … Peter Bradbury
1979 Game for Vultures...Col. Brettle
1979 Survival Run...Professor
1979 The Darker Side of Terror (TV movie)...Prof. Meredith
1978 Oliver's Story
1978 Fantasy Island (TV series)– Let the Goodtimes Roll/Nightmare/The Tiger (1978) … Colonel James Weston
1978 Battlestar Galactica (TV series)
– Saga of a Star World (1978) … Sire Uri
– Pilot (1978) … Sire Uri
1978 Blackout...Richard Stafford
1978 Slavers...Hassan
1978 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV series)
– Voodoo Doll: Part 2 (1978) … Dr. Orin Thatcher
– Voodoo Doll: Part 1 (1978) … Dr. Orin Thatcher
1978 Cruise Into Terror (TV movie)...Dr. Isiah Bakkun
1977 La ragazza dal pigiama giallo...Inspector Thompson
1977 The Uncanny...Frank Richards
1977 Testimony of Two Men (TV mini-series)...Jonas Witherby
1977 Cuibul salamandrelor...The Boss
1977 Seventh Avenue (TV mini-series)...Douglas Fredericks
1976 The Last Tycoon...Fleishacker
1976 Mayday at 40,000 Feet! (TV movie)...Dr. Joseph Mannheim
1976 Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (TV movie)...Roman Castevet
1976 Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (TV series)– Chapter I (1976) … Duncan Calderwood
1976 Aces High...Brigadier General Whale
1976 The Swiss Conspiracy...Johann Hurtil
1976 Rich Man, Poor Man (TV mini-series)
– Part VII: Chapter 9 (1976) … Duncan Calderwood
– Part VI: Chapter 8 (1976) … Duncan Calderwood
– Part IV: Chapter 6 (1976) … Duncan Calderwood
– Part III: Chapter 5 (1976) … Duncan Calderwood
– Part II: Chapters 3 and 4 (1976) … Duncan Calderwood
1975 Ellery Queen (TV series)– Too Many Suspects (1975) … Carson McKell
1975 Escape to Witch Mountain...Aristotle Bolt
1975 The Dead Don't Die (TV movie)...Jim Moss
1974 Gold...Hurry Hirschfeld
1974 Un par de zapatos del '32...Dr. Mann
1973 Terror in the Wax Museum...Harry Flexner
1973 Control Factor...Prof. Handley
1973 The House in Nightmare Park...Stewart Henderson
1972 Cool Million (TV series)– Hunt for a Lonely Girl (1972) … Neil Fitzsimmons
1971-1972 Columbo (TV series)
Arthur Kennicut / Jarvis Goodland
– The Greenhouse Jungle (1972) … Jarvis Goodland
– Death Lends a Hand (1971) … Arthur Kennicut
1972 The Thing with Two Heads...Maxwell Kirshner
1972 Frogs..Jason Crockett
1972 Embassy...Ambassador
1971 Black Noon (TV movie)...Caleb Hobbs
1971 Company of Killers (TV movie)...George DeSalles
1971 Night Gallery (TV series)
– The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes/Miss Lovecraft Sent Me/The Hand of Borgus Weems/Phantom of What Opera? (1971) … Dr. Archibald Ravadon
1971 River of Gold (TV movie)...Evelyn Rose
1970 Love Story...Oliver Barrett III
1970 The Name of the Game (TV series)
– A Love to Remember (1970) … Jonathan Booker
1969 Daughter of the Mind (TV movie)...Professor Samuel Constable
1969 Bracken's World (TV series)
– Don't You Cry for Susannah (1969) … Cameo
1968 Hostile Witness...Simon Crawford - Q.C.
1964 The Confession...Mario Forni
1963 The Silver Burro (TV movie)
1963 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV series)– The Silver Burro (1963) … Investigator
1963 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV series)– A Home Away from Home (1963) … Dr. Howard Fennick
1963 X...Dr. James Xavier
1962 Panic in Year Zero!...Harry Baldwin
1962 Premature Burial...Guy Carrell
1962 Alcoa Premiere (TV series)
– Pattern of Guilt (1962) … Keith Briscoe
1959-1960 Markham (TV series)
– A Matter of Identity (1960) … Roy Markham
– The Bad Spell (1960) … Roy Markham
– The Snowman (1960) … Roy Markham
– Counterpoint (1960) … Roy Markham
– Crash in the Desert (1960) … Roy Markham
In all 59 episodes
1959 Goodyear Theatre (TV series)– A London Affair (1959) … Binyon
1956-1958 General Electric Theater (TV series)
Caradoc Williams / John / Russel Kent / …
– Battle for a Soul (1958) … Caradoc Williams
– Angel of Wrath (1957) … John
– Never Turn Back (1957) … Woodward
– That's the Man! (1956) … Russel Kent
1958 Decision (TV series)– Markheim (1958) … Markheim
1958 Suspicion (TV series)– Eye for an Eye (1958) … Roy Markham
1958 The Safecracker...Colley Dawson
1957 High Flight...Wing Commander Rudge
1957 The River's Edge...Nardo Denning
1957 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV series)– The Girl in the Grass (1957) … Harry Carstairs
1956 Three Brave Men...Joe DiMarco
1956 The Ford Television Theatre (TV series)– Catch at Straws (1956) … District Attorney Peter Sloan
1956 Lisbon...Capt. Robert John Evans
1956 Screen Directors Playhouse (TV series)– Markheim (1956) … Markheim
1955 A Man Alone...Wes Steele
1955 The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing...Stanford White
1953-1955 Meet Mr. McNutley (TV series)
– Faculty Wife (1955) … Ray McNulty
– House Guest (1955) … Prof. Ray McNulty
– A Week with Cinderella (1955) … Prof. Ray McNulty
– The Hollywood Story (1955) … Prof. Ray McNulty
– The Molehouse Collection (1955) … Prof. Ray McNulty
In all 77 episodes
1954 Dial M for Murder...Tony Wendice
1953 Let's Do It Again...Gary Stuart
1953 Jamaica Run...Patrick Fairlie
1952 The Thief...Allan Fields
1952 Something to Live For...Alan Miller
1952 Bugles in the Afternoon...Kern Shafter
1951 Rhubarb...Eric Yeager
1951 Night Into Morning...Philip Ainley
1951 Circle of Danger...Clay Douglas
1951 Close to My Heart...Brad Sheridan
1950 Copper Canyon...Johnny Carter
1950 A Life of Her Own...Steve Harleigh
1950 A Woman of Distinction...Prof. Alexander 'Alec' Stevenson
1949 It Happens Every Spring...Prof. Vernon K. Simpson/King Kelly
1949 The Contact Man...Nick Beal
1948 Miss Tatlock's Millions...Cameo
1948 Sealed Verdict...Maj. Robert Lawson
1948 The Big Clock...George Stroud
1948 So Evil My Love...Mark Bellis
1947 Golden Earrings...Col. Ralph Denistoun
1947 The Trouble with Women...Professor Gilbert Sedley
1947 Mrs. Loring's Secret...Clive Loring
1947 California...Jonathan Trumbo
1946 The Well-Groomed Bride...Lt. Dudley Briggs
1945 The Lost Weekend...Don Birnam
1945 Kitty...Sir Hugh Marcy
1944 Ministry of Fear...Stephen Neale
1944 Till We Meet Again...John
1944 The Uninvited...Roderick Fitzgerald
1944 Lady in the Dark...Charley Johnson
1943 The Crystal Ball...Brad Cavanaugh
1943 Forever and a Day...Lt. William 'Bill' Trimble
1942 Star Spangled Rhythm...Joe in Card Playing Skit
1942 The Major and the Minor...Major Kirby
1942 Are Husbands Necessary?...George Cugat
1942 Reap the Wild Wind...Stephen Tolliver
1942 The Lady Has Plans...Kenneth Clarence Harper
1941 Sullivan's Travels...Near-collision man on studio street (uncredited)
1941 Skylark...Tony Kenyon
1941 I Wanted Wings...Jeff Young
1940 Arise, My Love...Tom Martin
1940 Untamed...Dr. William Crawford
1940 The Doctor Takes a Wife...Dr. Timothy Sterling
1940 Irene...Don Marshall
1940 French Without Tears...Alan Howard
1939 Everything Happens at Night...Geoffrey Thompson
1939 Beau Geste...John Geste
1939 Hotel Imperial...Lieutenant Nemassy
1938 Say It in French...Richard Carrington, Jr.
1938 Men with Wings...Scott Barnes
1938 Tropic Holiday...Ken Warren
1938 Her Jungle Love...Bob Mitchell
1937 Wise Girl...John O'Halloran
1937 Ebb Tide...Robert Herrick
1937 Easy Living...John Ball Jr.
1937 Wings Over Honolulu...Lt. Samuel Gilchrist
1937 Bulldog Drummond Escapes...Capt. Hugh 'Bulldog Drummond'
1936 The Jungle Princess...Christopher Powell
1936 Three Smart Girls...Lord Michael Stuart
1936 The Big Broadcast of 1937...Bob Miller
1936 The Return of Sophie Lang...Jimmy Dawson
1936 Next Time We Live...Tommy Abbott (as Raymond Milland)
1935 The Glass Key...Taylor Henry
1935 Alias Mary Dow...Peter Marshall (as Raymond Milland)
1935 Four Hours to Kill!...Carl Barrett
1935 The Gilded Lily...Charles Gray (Lord Granton)
1934 One Hour Late...Tony St. John (as Raymond Milland)
1934/I Menace...Freddie Bastion (as Raymond Milland)
1934 Charlie Chan in London...Neil Howard (as Raymond Milland)
1934 Many Happy Returns...Ted Lambert
1934 Orders Is Orders...Dashwood
1934 We're Not Dressing...Prince Michael Stofani (as Raymond Milland)
1934 Bolero...Lord Robert Coray (as Raymond Milland)
1933 This Is the Life...Bob Travers
1932 Payment Deferred...James Medland
1932 -But the Flesh Is Weak...Mr. Stewart - Party Guest (uncredited)
1932 Polly of the Circus...Church Usher (uncredited)
1932 The Silent Voice...Eddie (uncredited)
1931 Larceny Lane...Joe Reynolds
1931 Ambassador Bill...King Lothar
1931 Bought!...Charles Carter Jr. (as Raymond Milland)
1931 Just a Gigolo...Freddie
1931 Strangers May Kiss...Third Admirer (uncredited)
1931 The Bachelor Father...Geoffrey Trent
1930 Passion Flower...Party Guest with Letter (uncredited)
1930 Way for a Sailor...Ship's Officer (uncredited)
1929 The Informer...Sharpshooter (uncredited)
1929 The Plaything...Ian (as Raymond Milland)
1929 The Lady from the Sea...Tom Roberts (as Raymond Milland)
1929 Piccadilly...Extra in Nightclub Scene (uncredited)
1929 The Flying Scotsman...Jim Edwards (as Raymond Milland)

Director
1968 Hostile Witness (as R. Milland)
1962 Panic in Year Zero!
1961 The Dick Powell Show (TV series)– Open Season (1961)
1961 Thriller (TV series)– Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (1961)
1957-1958 General Electric Theater (TV series)
– Battle for a Soul (1958)
– Eyes of a Stranger (1957)
– Angel of Wrath (1957)
– Never Turn Back (1957)
1958 Suspicion (TV series)– Death Watch (1958)
1958 The Safecracker
1957 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV series)– The Girl in the Grass (1957)
1956 The Ford Television Theatre (TV series)– Catch at Straws (1956)
1956 Lisbon (as R. Milland)
1955 A Man Alone (as R. Milland)

Ray Milland 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).

Ray made just 1 movie with Duke, the epic
Reap the Wild Wind.1942 ...Stephen Tolliver

A few months just before the United States entered Word War II,
Duke flew out to Mexico with his business manager Boo Roos.
The group which included Ward Bond, , Ray Milland and Fred MacMurray,
were looking to buy a motion picture studio there.

It was at this time that Duke first met Esperanza Bauer,
who was to become his second wife.

It was Ray Milland who introduced Duke to 'Chata'.
who claimed to be an actress.

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In fact she was a high-class call girl,
who'd had a bit part in a Mexican film

Pilar Wayne later maintained.

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Milland was one of her clients

I'm always amused by these stories, because it merely proves the point that celebrities are HUMAN first, then stars.