Ray Milland

Highest Rated: 100% The Big Clock (1948)

Lowest Rated: 0% The Uncanny (1978)

Birthday: Jan 3, 1905

Birthplace: Neath, Glamorgan, Wales

Welsh actor Ray Milland spent the 1930s and early 1940s playing light romantic leads in such films as Next Time We Love (1936); Three Smart Girls (1936); Easy Living (1937), in which he is especially charming opposite Jean Arthur in an early Preston Sturges script; Everything Happens at Night (1939); The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940); and the major in Billy Wilder's The Major and the Minor opposite Ginger Rogers. Others worth watching are Reap the Wild Wind (1942); Forever and a Day (1943), and Lady in the Dark (1944). He made The Uninvited in 1944 and won an Oscar for his intense and realistic portrait of an alcoholic in The Lost Weekend (1945). Unfortunately, it was one of his last good films or performances. With the exception of Dial M for Murder (1954), X, The Man With X-Ray Eyes (1953), Love Story (1970), and Escape to Witch Mountain (1975), his later career was made up of mediocre parts in mostly bad films. One of the worst and most laughable was the horror film The Thing with Two Heads (1972), which paired him with football player Rosie Grier as the two-headed monster. Milland was also an uninspired director in A Man Alone (1955), Lisbon (1956), The Safecracker (1958), and Panic in Year Zero (1962).

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Serpiente de mar (Hydra-Monster of the Deep) Sea Serpent	Prof. Timothy Wallace	—	1985
No Score Yet	The Masks of Death (Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death)	Actor	—	1984
No Score Yet	Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (Airport 85)(Starflight One)	Actor	—	1983
77%	Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid	Actor	—	1982
No Score Yet	Our Family Business	Actor	—	1981
No Score Yet	The Attic	Wendell	—	1980
No Score Yet	A Game for Vultures	Col. Brettle	—	1980
No Score Yet	Survival Run	Actor	—	1980
29%	Oliver's Story	Mr. Barrett	—	1978
35%	Battlestar Galactica	Uri	—	1978
No Score Yet	Blackout (New York Blackout)	Mr. Stafford	—	1978
No Score Yet	Cruise into Terror	Actor	—	1978
No Score Yet	Oil	The Boss	—	1978
0%	The Uncanny	Frank Richards	—	1978
No Score Yet	The House in Nightmare Park (Night of the Laughing Dead)	Stewart Henderson	—	1977
No Score Yet	Slavers	Hassan	—	1977
No Score Yet	La ragazza dal pigiama giallo (The Girl in the Yellow Pajamas) (The Pyjama Girl Case)	Simpson	—	1977
41%	The Last Tycoon	Fleishacker	—	1976
No Score Yet	Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (Rosemary's Baby II)	Roman Castevet	—	1976
No Score Yet	Aces High	Brig. Whale	—	1976
No Score Yet	The Swiss Conspiracy	Johann Hurtil	—	1976
74%	Escape to Witch Mountain	Aristotle Bolt	—	1975
No Score Yet	The Dead Don't Die	Jim Moss	—	1975
No Score Yet	Gold	Hirschfeld	—	1974
No Score Yet	Terror in the Wax Museum	Flexner	—	1973
No Score Yet	The Big Game	Prof. Handley	—	1973
No Score Yet	Columbo: The Greenhouse Jungle	Actor	—	1972
0%	The Thing with Two Heads	Maxwell Kirshner	—	1972
29%	Frogs	Jason Crockett	—	1972
No Score Yet	Columbo: Death Lends a Hand	Actor	—	1971
68%	Love Story	Oliver Barrett III	—	1970
No Score Yet	Hostile Witness	Simon Crawford Q.C. Director	—	1968
88%	'X'---The Man With the X-Ray Eyes	Dr. James Xavier	—	1963
67%	Panic in Year Zero! (End of the World)	Harry Baldwin Director	—	1962
56%	The Premature Burial	Guy Carrell	—	1962
No Score Yet	Hollywood Come Home	Actor	—	1962
No Score Yet	The River's Edge	Nardo Denning	—	1957
No Score Yet	Three Brave Men	Joe DiMarco	—	1956
No Score Yet	Lisbon	Capt. Robert John Evans Producer Director	—	1956
No Score Yet	A Man Alone	Wes Steele Director	—	1955
No Score Yet	The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing	Stanford White	—	1955
89%	Dial M for Murder	Tony Wendice	—	1954
No Score Yet	Let's Do It Again	Gary Stuart	—	1953
80%	The Thief	Alan Fields	—	1952
No Score Yet	Bugles in the Afternoon	Kern Shafter	—	1952
No Score Yet	Rhubarb	Eric Yeager	—	1951
No Score Yet	Night Into Morning (People in Love)	Phillip Ainley	—	1951
No Score Yet	Circle Of Danger	Actor	—	1951
No Score Yet	Close To My Heart	Brad Sheridan	—	1951
No Score Yet	Golden Age of TV Dramas	Actor	—	1951
No Score Yet	Copper Canyon	Johnny Carter	—	1950
No Score Yet	A Woman of Distinction	Prof. Alec Stevenson	—	1950
No Score Yet	A Life of Her Own	Steve Harleigh	—	1950
No Score Yet	Alias Nick Beal	Nick Beal	—	1949
86%	It Happens Every Spring	Prof. Vernon K. Simpson/King Kelly	—	1949
No Score Yet	Alias Nick Beal	Actor	—	1949
No Score Yet	So Evil My Love	Mark Bellis	—	1948
100%	The Big Clock	George Stroud	—	1948
No Score Yet	Miss Tatlock's Millions	Himself	—	1948
No Score Yet	Sealed Verdict	Maj. Robert Lawson	—	1948
No Score Yet	Variety Girl	Himself	—	1947
No Score Yet	Golden Earrings	Col. Ralph Denistoun	—	1947
No Score Yet	The Trouble with Women	Professor Gilbert Sedley	—	1947
No Score Yet	California	Jonathan Trumbo	—	1946
97%	The Lost Weekend	Don Birnam	—	1945
88%	Ministry of Fear	Stephen Neale	—	1944
No Score Yet	Lady in the Dark	Charley Johnson	—	1944
95%	The Uninvited	Roderick Fitzgerald	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Crystal Ball	Brad Cavanaugh	—	1943
No Score Yet	Forever and a Day	Bill Trimble	—	1943
No Score Yet	Star Spangled Rhythm	Guest	—	1942
100%	The Major and the Minor	Maj. Kirby	—	1942
80%	Reap the Wild Wind	Stephen Tolliver	—	1942
No Score Yet	Skylark	Tony Kenyon	—	1941
No Score Yet	I Wanted Wings	Jeff Young	—	1941
No Score Yet	Arise, My Love	Tom Martin	—	1940
No Score Yet	Irene	Donald "Don" Marshall	—	1940
No Score Yet	The Doctor Takes a Wife	Dr. Timothy Sterling	—	1940
100%	Beau Geste	John Geste	—	1939
No Score Yet	French Without Tears	Alan Howard	—	1939
No Score Yet	Everything Happens at Night	Geoffrey Thompson	—	1939
No Score Yet	Her Jungle Love	Bob Mitchell	—	1938
No Score Yet	Men with Wings	Scott Barnes	—	1938
No Score Yet	Tropic Holiday	Ken Warren	—	1938
No Score Yet	Wise Girl	John O'Halloran	—	1937
No Score Yet	Ebb Tide	Robert Herrick	—	1937
100%	Easy Living	John Ball Jr.	—	1937
No Score Yet	Bulldog Drummond Escapes	Capt. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond	—	1937
No Score Yet	The Big Broadcast of 1937	Bob Miller	—	1937
86%	Three Smart Girls	Lord Michael Stuart	—	1936
No Score Yet	The Return of Sophie Lang	Jimmy Dawson	—	1936
No Score Yet	The Glass Key	Taylor Henry	—	1935
No Score Yet	The Gilded Lily	Charles Gray/Granville	—	1935
No Score Yet	One Hour Late	Tony St. John	—	1934
No Score Yet	Charlie Chan in London	Neil Howard	—	1934
No Score Yet	The Mystery of Mr. X	Forbes	—	1934
No Score Yet	Bolero	Lord Coray	—	1934
No Score Yet	We're Not Dressing	Prince Michael Stofani	—	1934
No Score Yet	Payment Deferred	James Medland	—	1932
No Score Yet	Polly of the Circus	Rich Young Man	—	1932
No Score Yet	The Man Who Played God	Eddie	—	1932
No Score Yet	Strangers May Kiss	Admirer	—	1931
No Score Yet	Blonde Crazy	Joe Reynolds	—	1931
No Score Yet	The Bachelor Father	Geoffrey Trent	—	1931
No Score Yet	Ambassador Bill	King Lothar	—	1931
79%	Piccadilly	Actor	—	1929
No Score Yet	Flying Scotsman	Jim Edwards	—	1929
No Score Yet	Informer	Bit Part	—	1929

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	Hart to Hart 1979-1984	Actor	1983 1982 1981
No Score Yet	Charlie's Angels 1976-1981	Oliver Barrow Oliver Barrows	1980
No Score Yet	The Love Boat 1977-1986	Peter Bradbury	1979
43%	Battlestar Galactica 1978-1980	Sire Uri	1978
No Score Yet	Columbo 1968-2003	Kennicutt	1972 1971
No Score Yet	Night Gallery 1970-1973	Dr. Ravdon	1971
No Score Yet	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962-1965	Actor	1963 1962
No Score Yet	Testimony of Two Men 1977	Jonas Whitherby Jonas Witherby

Quotes from Ray Milland's Characters

Don Birnam:	It tosses the sandbags overboard so the balloon can sail. (drinking)
Don Birnam:	It tosses the sandbags overboard so the balloon can sail. [drinking]

Tom Wendice:

People don't commit murder on credit.

Don Birnam:	Get on the merry-go-round, you gotta ride it all the way. Round and round till that blasted music wears itself out and the thing dies down and clunks to a stop
Don Birnam:	Get on the merry-go-round, you gotta ride it all the way. Round and round till that blasted music wears itself out and the thing dies down and clunks to a stop.

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