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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ray Milland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Milland was born Reginald Truscott-Jones in Neath, Wales, and took his stage surname from an area (the "mill lands") of the town.
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Ray Milland was born Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones on January 3, 1907 on a mountain called Cymla, above the town of Neath in Wales.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ray-Milland   (4593 words)

  
 The "Two-Headed" Career Of Ray Milland, Part Two
In last month's issue, we examined the early career of Ray Milland and noted that, although his genre film appearances were few in those formative and then fruitful years, he did take on a variety of roles that would prepare him for the days when leading roles in leading films become pretty scarce.
Maybe the array of TV movies Milland would co-star in during the next twenty years would not be a great source of pride to the actor, but they kept him in view while he rallied for and alternated with roles on the big screen.
Milland wasn’t in those, but he did star in Frogs (1972) as a cantankerous modern day Southern patriarch determined to have his birthday celebration, even as his small island is being overrun by nature in revolt against pollution and the poisons being used to keep pests in check.
www.horror-wood.com /2nd_milland.htm   (2512 words)

  
 Ray Milland at Reel Classics
Ray Milland stumbled into acting in the late 1920s when a British filmmaker spotted him at a party and offered the 22-year-old a bit part in THE PLAYTHING (1929).
Milland made a number of film comedies over the course of his career, but few have stood the test of time as well as EASY LIVING (1937), a depression-era screwball comedy written by Preston Sturges and starring Jean Arthur, one of the decade's best comediennes.
Starring Gary Cooper as the title character and co-starring Milland and Robert Preston as his younger brothers, the film follows the Gestes from their boyhood in a wealthy English manor house to their coming of age in the French Foreign Legion.
www.reelclassics.com /Actors/Milland/milland.htm   (477 words)

  
 Ray Milland
Born in Wales, Ray Milland put in three years of service as a guardsman with the Royal Household Cavalry in London before breaking into British films in 1929, first as an extra, then graduating to bit parts.
Milland also became a familiar figure on television, starring in his own sitcom The Ray Milland Show and the drama Markham.
Milland, who has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, died in California on March 10, 1986 of lung cancer.
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=10211   (348 words)

  
 Ray Milland - Best Actor: MovieActors.com
Ray Milland received his oscar for playing the would be writer on a booze-filled weekend.
Ray Milland worked at architecture and soldiering before making his debut in London.
Ray Milland in DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954)
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 BBC - South West Wales - Hall of Fame
I have been told that I live in the house that Ray Milland was born in.
Am reading Ray Milland's biography, it says he picked the name Milland from the Mill Lands he liked to visit as a child, where he lived sometimes with his aunt.
Ray Milland took the name Milland as he was born on that street.
www.bbc.co.uk /wales/southwest/halloffame/showbiz/raymilland.shtml   (992 words)

  
 Ray Milland Photos - Ray Milland News - Ray Milland Information
In Ray Milland's autobiography, "Wide-eyed In Babylon" (1974), he explains that after many hours of arguing with his agent, he got...
A woman claims to be Jennifer's half-sister and her father believes she could be the daughter of his nurse during the war.
Ray has a tattoo of a skull with a snake curled on top with the tail sticking through on of the eyes.
www.tv.com /ray-milland/person/59767/summary.html   (279 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Dial M for Murder: Video: Ray Milland,Grace Kelly,Robert Cummings,John Williams (II),Anthony Dawson,Leo ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Ray Milland plays, with a kind of high-toned Brit panache, her diabolical husband, Tony Wendice, a one-time tennis star who married mostly for security.
It is a joy to watch Ray Milland in action as he must explain away all of it to his wife and the police.
Ray Milland is terrific as the cunning and manipulative husband out for the ultimate revenge.
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 Ray Milland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Milland / Raymond Alton Milland / Raymond Milland / Spike Milland
Charlie Chan in London (1934) (as Raymond Milland)....
The Lady from the Sea (1929) (as Raymond Milland)....
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 Classic Movie Stars: Ray Milland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Born Reginald Truscott-Jones, Milland was born in Wales, UK, on 3 rd January 1907.
The pilot saved Milland’s live that day, as he later found out that the parachute he was going to use was only a prop.
During the 1950s, Milland turned his hand to directing, and the 1970s saw him return to acting, although in far lower budget productions.
www.classicmoviestars.org /ray-milland.html   (267 words)

  
 Ray Milland at Brian's Drive-In Theater
Born Reginald Alfred Truscott-Jones in Wales in January 1907, Ray Milland aspired to be an actor from an early age.
Sadly, Ray Milland died of lung cancer in March 1986 at the age of 79; he was survived by his wife and their son and daughter.
In this "rib-it-ing" nature-runs-amok affair, Ray Milland is an Everglades-based, wheelchair-bound chemical tycoon whose birthday party is interrupted by the arrival of scores of snakes, insects, snapping turtles and bullfrogs.
www.briansdriveintheater.com /raymilland.html   (3960 words)

  
 The Terror Trap: The Kings of Terror: Ray Milland
Ray Milland played many Americans in his long and distinguished career...and he played them well.
Milland and co-star Ruth Hussey played a brother and sister who rent a mansion on England's coast haunted by a pair of spirits.
(1954) gave Milland a juicy part as the husband of Grace Kelly, who plots to kill her.
www.terrortrap.com /kingsofterror/milland.htm   (239 words)

  
 Ray Milland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ray Milland (January 3, 1905 – March 10, 1986) was a successful Welsh actor and director who worked primarily in the United States.
The popular hard rock band Local H recorded a song entitled "Ray Miland" (whether or not the actor's name is misspelled intentionally is unclear) as a b-side to their album "As Good as Dead." The song's lyrics describe a person experiencing moments of clarity in what seems to be an alcoholic haze.
While the track has never been properly released, it is widely available on mp3 file-sharing networks.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ray_Milland   (299 words)

  
 THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- X: THE MAN WITH X-RAY EYES
Ray Milland stars in this Roger Corman directed effort as Dr. James Xavier, a scientist who wants to push the human sense of sight to its fullest potential.
At first, he has the slight ability to see through objects, but his arrogance drives him to continue the experiments to his own ruination- giving him horrifying sight beyond what any human mind was intended to see.
Ray Milland gives a great performance as Xavier, one that elevates the film beyond the scope of it low budget origins.
www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd2/reviews/x-man-with-the-x-ray-eyes-dvd.htm   (634 words)

  
 Ray Milland - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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...
Trivia: Studio advisers warned Ray Milland that this would be the death of his career.
Milland himself was initially reluctant to take the part,...
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 Ray Milland | Biography (1907-1986)
In Ray Milland's autobiography, Wide-eyed In Babylon (1974), he explains that after many hours of arguing with his agent, he got up and said, "I don't really care what you call me. I must keep the initial "R" because my mother had it engraved on my suitcases.
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).
www.leninimports.com /ray_milland.html   (309 words)

  
 Ray Milland News
News about Ray Milland continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Harrisburg's pitching staff must have picked up the bat-repelling formula used by Ray Milland's character in the movie "It Happens Every Spring." For the second time in five days, the host Bulldogs got a...
Englishman Ray Milland plays a slick-talking former tennis star plotting the perfect murder of his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly), who he's caught having an affair with a New York writer (Robert Cummings).
www.topix.net /who/ray-milland   (486 words)

  
 AMCTV.com SHOW - The Lost Weekend
Milland gives the performance of a lifetime as a writer who encounters the depths of his soul on a weekend alone in New York.
Before the weekend is over, Milland will have lost his money, his freedom, and his grip on reality as he descends into the alcoholic abyss.
Milland explored the darkest corners of society researching the role, spending the night in New York's Bellevue Hospital (the setting for some of the most disturbing sequences) on the alcoholic ward.
www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=2019-1-EST   (198 words)

  
 Ray Milland @ Filmbug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
He was born in Neath, Wales, and took his stage surname from an area of the town.
Playing opposite Grace Kelly in Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder (1954), his popularity later slumped and he was reduced to playing in low-budget horror movies such as The Man with X-Ray Eyes.
Tell us what you think of Ray Milland in the Filmbug forum...
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 Amazon.ca: Frogs (Widescreen/Full Screen): DVD: George McCowan,Ray Milland,Sam Elliott,Joan Van Ark,Adam Roarke,Judy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Will Ray Milland ever be able to get the slime off that bright white suit?
The slimy denizens of the Everglades organize a particularly nasty rebellion in this enjoyable entry from the "nature-run-amok" horror subgenre which favored drive-in venues of the mid-'70s.
The story takes place amid the festivities honoring the birthday of crotchety, wheelchair-bound Southern patriarch Jason Crockett (Ray Milland), a chemical-industry magnate whose pesticides are responsible for much of the toxic pollution found in the swamplands.
www.amazon.ca /gp/product/product-description/0792846885/ref=dp_proddesc_0/702-7122386-6028809?ie=UTF8&n=917972&s=dvd   (410 words)

  
 Pyjama Girl Case, The - Ray Milland, Michele Placido 1977
A detective searches for the identity and killer of a young woman found dead on the beach, wearing only a pair of yellow pajamas; meanwhile, a friend of the dead woman sets off on the road to avoid being the next victim.
Film school buffs will dig it and find a lot to argue about, others might be confused or annoyed.
Ray Milland is good but kind of decrepit-looking, here in the evening of his career.
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 Camp Hosier and Ray Milland Ad 1948
Description: Camp Hosier and Ray Milland Ad 1948 this is a November 1948 advertisement.
You can tell they are Camp Socks by their bold look says Ray Milland, starring in Sealed Verdict, a paramount picture.
Shows ray sitting in a chair, nice view of his socks.
www.goantiques.com /detail,camp-hosier-ray,887024.html   (145 words)

  
 Ray Milland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Excellent Faustian drama stars Ray Milland as Nick Beal (the devil), who makes a bargain with politician Thomas Mitchell to sell his soul in exchange for becoming governor.
Excellent Pygmalion type farce stars Paulette Goddard as a cockney pickpocket who is molded by an impoverished rake (Ray Milland) into a lady, and eventually into a grand duchess.
Excellent wartime love story stars Claudette Colbert as a US newswoman who rescues pilot Ray Milland from a Spanish prison, and then the two have a whirlwind romance as WW2 breaks out in Poland and France.
www.cabbageboymovies.com /Milland.html   (130 words)

  
 Ray Milland — Infoplease.com
Milland played bit parts in films in the early 1930s.
Dial M for Murder (1954) - Starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams
The Major and the Minor - The Major and the Minor Universal; $14.98 Feature; NR Director: Billy Wilder Cast: Ginger Rogers...
www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0759646.html   (223 words)

  
 Ray Milland - An Award Winning Actor @ Classic Movie Favorites
An extraordinary actor best known for his Academy Award Win for his brilliant performance in the 1945 classic, The Lost Weekend.
This talented, handsome actor made over 100 films from the 1930s to the 1980s.
This site is dedicated to the memory of Ray Milland, an Award Winning Actor and a Hollywood Silver Screen Legend who left us with a legacy of fine films.
classicmoviefavorites.com /milland   (84 words)

  
 Ray Milland, tous les films avec Ray Milland
Avec : Grace Kelly, John Williams, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings
Avec : Donald Pleasence, Eddie Albert, Ray Milland
Avec : Ray Milland, Warner Oland, Drue Leyton
www.locafilm.com /acteur/4872/ray-milland.html   (170 words)

  
 Ray Milland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
RMIL#1 - Ray Milland on magazine cover - British "Film Weekly" January 15, 1938.
RMIL#2 - Ray Milland on magazine cover - British "Picturegoer", April 27, 1946.
Was folded vertically at one time and cover has slight wear at Ray's chin on down.
www.moviebilia.com /ray_milland.htm   (124 words)

  
 Ray Milland TV Listings - find Ray Milland on TV | TV-Now.com
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Tue, Nov 6, 8:00 AM It Happens Every Spring
Ray Milland Biography, TV Listings and More from TVGuide.com
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 Dial M for Murder (1954) with Grace Kelly, Ray Milland - Mystery Movies
Dial M for Murder (1954) with Grace Kelly, Ray Milland
The principals in the movie are Ray Milland (Tony Wendice) and Grace Kelly (Margot Wendice), Robert Cummings is Mark Halliday the outside love interest.
The Uninvited (1944) Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art33512.asp   (619 words)

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