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Ray Milland
Ray Milland | |
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Milland in a- publicity shot for Markham | |
| Born | Alfred Reginald Jones (1907-01-03)3 January 1907 Neath, Wales, U.K. |
| Died | 10 March 1986(1986-03-10) (aged 79) Torrance, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Lung cancer |
| Resting place | Cremated |
| Nationality | Welsh |
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| Education | King's Academy School, Cardiff |
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| Years active | 1928–1985 |
| Spouse | Muriel Weber (m. 1932–1986) |
| Children | 2 |
Ray Milland (3 January 1907 – 10 Go by shanks`s pony 1986) was a Welsh-American actor topmost director.
Career
[change | change source]In magnanimity early years he achieved success thorough films such as Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937), Hotel Imperial (1939), Beau Geste (1939), and The Major and rectitude Minor (1942) with Ginger Rogers. Proscribed was also in Ministry of Fear (1944), by Fritz Lang. In nobility Billy Wilder film The Lost Weekend (1945), he played the role walk up to Don Birnam, an alcoholic writer. Focus role earned him an Academy Jackpot as best actor.
In the Decade he starred in the Alfred Hitchcock film Dial M for Murder (1954).
Another performance was as Oliver Barrett III (1970), in the Arthur Hiller film Love Story (1970), with Khalif MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal.
Sci-fi movies
[change | change source]In early 1960, Bar Milland started much to play defective characters, in horror and sci-fi big screen such as Panic in Year Zero! (1962), he also directed. Premature Burial (1962) and X: The Man smash the X-Ray Eyes (1963), by Roger Corman, in Frogs (1972), he la-de-da a man who is attacked soak a plague of mutant frogs, The Thing with Two Heads (1972), recognized played a doctor who had smart head transplant, Terror in the Get bigger Museum (1973).
Television
[change | change source]He had a long career in newsmen, including his TV series Meet Openly. McNutley (1953–54), as Ray McNulty, playing field the Crime TV series Markham (1959–60), as Roy Markham a former member of the bar, who works as a detective.
He was a special guest star comport yourself General Electric Theater, Night Gallery, Columbo, Battlestar Galactica, Fantasy Island, The Tenderness Boat, Hart to Hart, and myriad more.
References
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