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Job Actor, director
Years active 1929-1985
Top Roles Prof. Alexander 'Alec' Stevenson, Tony Wendice, Steve Harleigh, Lt. Dudley Briggs, Dr. James Xavier
Top GenresDrama, Comedy, Romance, Crime, Adventure, Musical
Top TopicsBook-Based, Romance (Comic), Aviation
Top Collaborators (Producer), (Director), ,
Shares birthday with Marion Davies, Anna May Wong, ZaSu Pitts  see more..

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Ray Milland Overview:

Legendary actor, Ray Milland, was born Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones on Jan 3, 1905 in Neath, Glamorgan. Milland died at the age of 81 on Mar 10, 1986 in Torrance, CA and was cremated and his ashes scattered at sea near Pacific Crest Redondo Beach CA.

HONORS and AWARDS:

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Ray Milland was nominated for one Academy Award, winning for Best Actor for The Lost Weekend (as Don Birnam) in 1945.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1945Best ActorThe Lost Weekend (1945)Don BirnamWon
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He was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the categories of Motion Pictures and Television. Ray Milland's handprints and footprints were 'set in stone' at Grauman's Chinese Theater during imprint ceremony #79 on Apr 17, 1947.

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in The Lost Weekend (1945)

By Carol Martinheira on Mar 1, 2018 From The Old Hollywood Garden

in The Lost Weekend (1945) On March 1, 2018March 1, 2018 By CarolIn Uncategorized Because it?s Oscar season, I wanted to talk about one of my all-time favorite performances in the Best Actor in a Leading Role category, the wonderful in The Lost ... Read full article

and the Dragon Squad

By Rick29 on Nov 24, 2016 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

Ray as Hugh Drummond. Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937). In one of his last "B" films, portrays the debonair British detective Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond. The film opens with a tense scene of Drummond piloting his plane to a landing in thick fog. Later that evening, he encounters a y... Read full article

and the Dragon Squad

By Rick29 on Nov 24, 2016 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

Ray as Hugh Drummond. Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937). In one of his last "B" films, portrays the debonair British detective Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond. The film opens with a tense scene of Drummond piloting his plane to a landing in thick fog. Later that evening, he encounters a y... Read full article

The Uninvited (1944) – with and Ruth Hussey

By Greg Orypeck on Apr 7, 2016 From Classic Film Freak

Share This! ?They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of?Devonshire? and?Cornwall?and ?Ireland?which rear up against the westward ocean.??Mists gather here . . . and sea fog . . . and eerie stories . . . ??part of the opening narration A ghost story???No, not the shocker kind, with raised ... Read full article

Start with , End with George Clooney

By Rick29 on Aug 21, 2015 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

Sylvia Syms defending . Hostile Witness (1968). A London barrister () suffers a nervous breakdown when his adult daughter is killed in a hit-and-run accident. When he recovers, he's framed for the murder of a colleague who may have driven the car. For half its running time, th... Read full article

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Ray Milland Quotes:

Tony Wendice: [to C.A. Swan] By the way does Mrs. Van Dorn know about Mr. Adams or Mr. Wilson and Miss Wallace? You were planning to marry Mrs. Van Dorn, weren't you?

[Father Jacinto, in Tom's cell, prepares him for death]
Father Jacinto: This is my first execution.
Tom Martin: Don't worry, Father, it's mine too.

Ann Baldwin: Intelligent people don't just turn their backs on the rest of the world!
Harry Baldwin: Under these conditions, intelligent people will be the first to try.

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(1954)
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Best Actor Oscar 1945
WINNER

(as Don Birnam)
in The Lost Weekend
Nominee
Bing Crosby
(as Father O'Malley)
in The Bells of St. Mary's
Nominee
Gene Kelly
(as Joseph Brady)
in Anchors Aweigh
Nominee
Gregory Peck
(as Father Francis Chisholm)
in The Keys of the Kingdom
Nominee
Cornel Wilde
(as Frederick Chopin)
in A Song to Remember
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Grauman's Imprints


Ceremony Date: Apr 17, 1947
Ceremony Number 79
Also at Grauman's

Mary Pickford


Ceremony Date: Apr 30, 1927
Ceremony Number: 1

Douglas Fairbanks


Ceremony Date: Apr 30, 1927
Ceremony Number: 1

Norma Talmadge


Ceremony Date: May 18, 1927
Ceremony Number: 2
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Ray Milland on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame

1621 Vine Street


Ceremony Date: Feb 8, 1960
Category: Motion Pictures

1634 Vine Street


Ceremony Date: Feb 8, 1960
Category: Television
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Ray Milland Facts
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!.
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.
Was the first choice for the Don Ameche role in Trading Places (1983).
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