Ray Milland

Biography

Ray Milland (3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh actor and director. He is best remembered for his Academy Award–winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945), as well as for his performances in Dial M for Murder (1954) and Love Story (1970).

Career Overview

Ray Milland has 168 screen credits in a career dating back to 1928. Their work spans 8 cinematic universes — most prominently Love Story Collection with 2 titles. Signature works include Dial M for Murder, The Lost Weekend, Ministry of Fear. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For: Acting
Gender: male
Known Credits: 168
Birth Date: 1907-01-03 00:00:00
Birth Place: Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Known For

Associated Universes

Universe traveler — spans 8 universes

Love Story Collection (2 titles)
Louise Elmore Collection (1 titles)
Battlestar Galactica (Original) Collection (1 titles)
Rosemary's Baby Collection (1 titles)
Witch Mountain Collection (1 titles)
Three Smart Girls Trilogy (1 titles)
Big Broadcast Collection (1 titles)
Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) Collection (1 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

David Clyde (2 collaborations)
Byron Foulger (2 collaborations)
Alan Napier (2 collaborations)
Grace Kelly (1 collaborations)
Robert Cummings (1 collaborations)
John Williams (1 collaborations)
Anthony Dawson (1 collaborations)
Leo Britt (1 collaborations)
Patrick Allen (1 collaborations)
George Leigh (1 collaborations)

Credits

actors (160 credits)
- The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1997
- Sad?
  (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1996
- Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
  Don Birnam (archive footage) (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1995
- Faces of Horror
  Maxwell Kirshner (archive)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1989
- Grace Kelly: The American Princess
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1987
- The Sea Serpent
  Professor Timothy Wallace
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1985
- The Masks of Death
  Home Secretary
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1984
- Cave-In!
  Prof. Harrison Soames
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1983
- Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
  Q. T. Thornwell
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1983
- The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana
  Mr. Griffiths
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1982
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
  (in "The Lost Weekend") (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1982
- Our Family Business
  Tony
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1981
- The Attic
  Wendell
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1980
- Game for Vultures
  Colonal Brettle
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1979
- Survival Run
  Professor
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1979
- The Darker Side of Terror
  Prof. Meredith
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1979
- Hart to Hart
  
  - Long Lost Love (1983) ... actor actors
  
  - My Hart Belongs to Daddy (1982) ... actor actors
  
  1979
- Oliver's Story
  Oliver Barrett III
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1978
- Battlestar Galactica
  Sire Uri
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1978
- Blackout
  Richard Stafford
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1978
- Slavers
  Hassan
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1978
- Cruise Into Terror
  Dr. Isiah Bakkun
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1978
- Battlestar Galactica
  
  - Saga of a Star World (1978) ... Sire Uri actor actors
  
  1978
- The Pyjama Girl Case
  Inspector Timpson
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1977
- The Uncanny
  Frank Richards (segment "Montreal 1977")
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1977
- Mayday at 40,000 Feet
  Dr. Joseph Mannheim
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1977
- Oil
  Boss Stewart
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1977
- The Love Boat
  
  - Alaska Wedding Cruise: Carol & Doug/Peter & Alicia/Julie/Buddy & Portia (2) (1979) ... Peter Bradbury actor actors
  
  - Alaska Wedding Cruise: Carol & Doug/Peter & Alicia/Julie/Buddy & Portia (1) (1979) ... Peter Bradbury actor actors
  
  1977
- The Last Tycoon
  Fleishacker
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1976
- Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby
  Roman Castevet
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1976
- Aces High
  Brigadier General Whale
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1976
- The Swiss Conspiracy
  Johann Hurtil
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1976
- Charlie's Angels
  
  - One Love...Two Angels (2) (1980) ... Oliver Barrows actor actors
  
  - One Love...Two Angels (1) (1980) ... Oliver Barrows actor actors
  
  1976
- Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
  Carson McKell
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1975
- Escape to Witch Mountain
  Aristotle Bolt
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1975
- The Dead Don't Die
  Jim Moss / Varrick
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1975
- Gold
  Hurry Hirschfeld
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1974
- Witness to Murder
  Dr. Roger Mann
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1974
- Terror in the Wax Museum
  Harry Flexner
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1973
- The Big Game
  Pete Handley
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1973
- The House in Nightmare Park
  Stewart Henderson
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1973
- The Thing with Two Heads
  Maxwell Kirshner
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1972
- Frogs
  Jason Crockett
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1972
- Embassy
  Ambassador
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1972
- Black Noon
  Caleb Hobbs
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1971
- River of Gold
  Evelyn Rose
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1971
- Columbo
  
  - The Greenhouse Jungle (1972) ... Jarvis Goodland actor actors
  
  - Death Lends a Hand (1971) ... Arthur Kennicutt actor actors
  
  1971
- Love Story
  Oliver Barrett III
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1970
- Company of Killers
  George DeSalles
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1970
- Daughter of the Mind
  Prof. Samuel Hale Constable
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1969
- Hostile Witness
  Simon Crawford
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1968
- Quick, Let's Get Married
  Mario Forni
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1964
- X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
  James Xavier
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1963
- Panic in Year Zero!
  Harry Baldwin
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1962
- The Premature Burial
  Guy Carrell
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1962
- The Merv Griffin Show
  
  - Episode 119 (1969) ... Self actor actors
  
  - Episode 147 (1966) ... Self actor actors
  
  - Episode 97 (1966) ... Self actor actors
  
  - Episode 56 (1966) ... Self actor actors
  
  1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
  
  - A Home Away from Home (1963) ... Howard Fennick actor actors
  
  1962
- King of Kings
  Satan (voice) (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1961
- The Mike Douglas Show
  
  - Episode 51 (1978) ... Self actor actors
  
  - Episode 18 (1974) ... Self actor actors
  
  - Episode 74 (1969) ... Self actor actors
  
  1961
- The Safecracker
  Colley Dawson
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1958
- High Flight
  Wing Commander Rudge
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1957
- The River's Edge
  Nardo Denning
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1957
- Three Brave Men
  Joe DiMarco
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1956
- Lisbon
  Robert John Evans
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1956
- A Man Alone
  Wes Steele
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1955
- The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
  Stanford White
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1955
- Dial M for Murder
  Tony Wendice
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney
  
  - Escape to Witch Mountain (1980) ... Aristotle Bolt actor actors
  
  1954
- Let's Do It Again
  Gary Stuart
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1953
- The Thief
  Allan Fields
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1952
- Something to Live For
  Alan Miller
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1952
- Bugles in the Afternoon
  Kern Shafter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1952
- Close to My Heart
  Brad Sheridan
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1951
- Rhubarb
  Eric Yeager
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1951
- Night Into Morning
  Philip Ainley
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1951
- Circle of Danger
  Clay Douglas
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1951
- Copper Canyon
  Johnny Carter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1950
- A Life of Her Own
  Steve Harleigh
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1950
- A Woman of Distinction
  Alexander "Alec" Stevenson
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1950
- What's My Line?
  
  - Episode 791 (1965) ... Self - Mystery Guest actor actors
  
  - Episode 488 (1959) ... Self - Panelist actor actors
  
  - Episode 230 (1954) ... Self - Mystery Guest actor actors
  
  1950
- The Art Director
  Self - from 'The Big Clock' (archive footage) (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1949
- It Happens Every Spring
  Vernon Simpson
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1949
- Alias Nick Beal
  Nick Beal
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1949
- Miss Tatlock's Millions
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1948
- Sealed Verdict
  Robert Lawson
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1948
- So Evil My Love
  Mark Bellis
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1948
- The Big Clock
  George Stroud
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1948
- Variety Girl
  Ray Milland
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1947
- Golden Earrings
  Ralph Denistoun
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1947
- The Trouble with Women
  Gilbert Sedley
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1947
- California
  Jonathan Trumbo
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1947
- The Imperfect Lady
  Clive Loring
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1946
- The Well Groomed Bride
  Dudley Briggs
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1946
- The Lost Weekend
  Don Birnam
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1945
- Kitty
  Sir Hugh Marcy
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1945
- Till We Meet Again
  John
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1944
- Ministry of Fear
  Stephen Neale
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1944
- The Uninvited
  Roderick Fitzgerald
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1944
- Lady in the Dark
  Charley Johnson
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1944
- The Crystal Ball
  Brad Cavanaugh
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1943
- Forever and a Day
  Bill Trimble
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1943
- The Major and the Minor
  Major Kirby
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1942
- Are Husbands Necessary?
  George Cugat
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1942
- Reap the Wild Wind
  Stephen Tolliver
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1942
- Star Spangled Rhythm
  Joe
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1942
- The Lady Has Plans
  Kenneth Harper
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1942
- Sullivan's Travels
  Near-Collision Man (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1941
- Skylark
  Tony Kenyon
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1941
- I Wanted Wings
  Jeff Young
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1941
- Arise, My Love
  Tom Martin
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1940
- Untamed
  Dr. William Crawford
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1940
- The Doctor Takes a Wife
  Dr. Timothy Sterling
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1940
- Irene
  Don Marshall
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1940
- French Without Tears
  Alan Howard
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1940
- Everything Happens at Night
  Geoffrey Thompson
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1939
- Beau Geste
  John Geste
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1939
- Hotel Imperial
  Lieutenant Nemassy
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1939
- Say It in French
  Richard Carrington, Jr.
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1938
- Men with Wings
  Scott Barnes
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1938
- Tropic Holiday
  Ken Warren
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1938
- Her Jungle Love
  Bob Mitchell
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1938
- Ebb Tide
  Robert Herrick
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1937
- Easy Living
  John Ball Jr.
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1937
- Wings Over Honolulu
  Richard "Stony" Gilchrist
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1937
- Bulldog Drummond Escapes
  Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1937
- Three Smart Girls
  Lord Michael Stuart
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1936
- The Jungle Princess
  Christopher Powell
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1936
- The Big Broadcast of 1937
  Bob Miller
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1936
- The Return of Sophie Lang
  Jimmy Dawson
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1936
- Next Time We Love
  Tommy Abbott
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1936
- The Glass Key
  Taylor Henry
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1935
- Alias Mary Dow
  Peter Marshall
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1935
- Four Hours to Kill!
  Carl Barrett
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1935
- The Gilded Lily
  Charles Gray Granville
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1935
- One Hour Late
  Tony St. John
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1934
- Menace
  Freddie Bastion
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1934
- Charlie Chan in London
  Neil Howard
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1934
- Many Happy Returns
  Ted Lambert
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1934
- We're Not Dressing
  Prince Michael (as Raymond Milland)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1934
- Bolero
  Robert Coray
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1934
- This Is the Life
  Bob Travers
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1933
- Orders Is Orders
  Dashwood
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1933
- Payment Deferred
  James Medland
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1932
- But the Flesh Is Weak
  Mr. Stewart
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1932
- Polly of the Circus
  Church Usher (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1932
- The Man Who Played God
  Eddie (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1932
- Ambassador Bill
  King Lothar
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1931
- Blonde Crazy
  Joe Reynolds
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1931
- Bought!
  Charles Carter Jr.
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1931
- Just a Gigolo
  Freddie
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1931
- Strangers May Kiss
  3rd Admirer
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1931
- The Bachelor Father
  Geoffrey Trent
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1931
- Passion Flower
  Party Guest with Letter (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1930
- Way for a Sailor
  Ship's Officer
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1930
- The Informer
  Sharpshooter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1929
- The Plaything
  Ian
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1929
- The Flying Scotsman
  Jim Edwards
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1929
- The Lady from the Sea
  Tom Roberts
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1929
- Piccadilly
  Diner in Nightclub (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1929
- Moulin Rouge
  Theater Patron (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1928
directing (5 credits)
- Hostile Witness
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1968
- Panic in Year Zero!
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1962
- The Safecracker
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1958
- Lisbon
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1956
- A Man Alone
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1955
writing (1 credits)
- The Safecracker
  
  story
  
  writing
  
  1958
production (1 credits)
- Lisbon
  
  associate producer
  
  production
  
  1956
crew (1 credits)
- The Informer
  
  technical advisor
  
  crew
  
  1929

Content sources

Related entry on Wikidata (Q181774), public domain (CC0).