Cast
Milton Sills
Acting
Cast
Milton Sills
Known for
Acting
Born
1882-01-11
From
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died
1930-09-15
Biography
From Wikipedia Milton George Gustavus Sills (January 12, 1882 – September 15, 1930) was an American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century. Sills was born in Chicago, Illinois into a wealthy family. He was the son of William Henry Sills, a successful mineral dealer, and Josephine Antoinette Troost Sills, an heiress from a prosperous banking family. Upon completing high school, Sills was offered a one-year scholarship to the University of Chicago, where he studied psychology and philosophy. After graduating, he was offered a position at the university as a researcher and within several years worked his way up to become a professor at the school. In 1905, stage actor Donald Robertson visited the school to lecture on author and playwright Henrik Ibsen and suggested to Sills that he try his hand at acting. On a whim, Sills agreed and left his prestigious teaching career to embark on a stint in acting. Sills joined Robertson's stock theater company and began touring the country. In 1914, Sills decided to conquer the new medium of motion pictures. He made his film debut the same year in the big-budget drama The Pit for the World Film Company and was signed to a contract with film producer William A. Brady. The film was enormously successful, and Sills made three more films for the company, including another huge box-office draw The Deep Purple opposite silent screen star Clara Kimball Young. By the late 1910s, Sills had reached leading man status and parted ways with World Film, taking the then unusual path of freelancing as an actor. By the early 1920s, Sills was enjoying a highly successful acting career and working for such prominent film studios as MGM, Paramount Pictures, and Pathé Exchange. He was often paired with the most popular leading ladies of the era, including: Geraldine Farrar, Gloria Swanson and Viola Dana. His greatest public and commercial successes came with the now lost Flaming Youth (1923) opposite Colleen Moore, and the enormous box-office hit The Sea Hawk (1924). Sills made two sound pictures, showing that he had an excellent voice. Many may have forgotten that Sills had extensive stage training before embarking on his career before the cameras. Sills died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1930 while playing tennis with his wife at his Santa Barbara, California home at the age of 48. He was interred at the Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum in Chicago, Illinois.
Puppets
as Nicola Riccobini
The Spoilers
as Roy Glennister
Burning Daylight
as Elam 'Burning Daylight' Harnish
Burning Sands
as Daniel Lane
Paradise
as Tony
The Claw
as Major Anthony Kinsella
Skin Deep
as Bud Doyle
The Valley of the Giants
as Bryce Cardigan
Patria
as Capt. Donald Parr
The Sea Hawk
as Sir Oliver Tressilian
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
Framed
as Etienne Hilaire
Satan Junior
as Paul Worden
Man Trouble
as Mac
As Man Desires
as Major John Craig
Souls for Sale
as Self - Celebrity Actor (uncredited)
One Clear Call
as Dr. Alan Hamilton
The Arrival of Perpetua
as Thaddeus Curzon
The Great Moment
as Bayard Delaval
Adam's Rib
as Michael Ramsay
The Furnace
as Keene Mordaunt
The Isle of Lost Ships
as Frank Howard
The Woman Who Walked Alone
as Clement Gaunt
Flaming Youth
as Cary Scott
The Silent Lover
as Count Pierre Tornal
The Barker
as Nifty Miller
The Sea Tiger
as Justin Ramos
Under Southern Skies
as Burleigh Mavor
The Hushed Hour
as Luke Appleton
Love and the Devil
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
The Heart Bandit
as John Rand
The Forgotten Law
as Richard Jarnette
The Last Hour
as Steve Cline
Men of Steel
as Jan Bokak
The Circus: Premiere
as Self
The Pit
as Corthell
Dangerous to Men
as Sandy Verrall
The Stronger Vow
as Juan Estudillo
What a Wife Learned
as Rudolph Martin
Single Wives
as Perry Jordan
The Unguarded Hour
as Andrea
Eyes of Youth
as Louis Anthony
The Crash
as Jim Flannagan
Seeing Stars
as Self
The Woman Who Lied
as Jack Stanley
I Want My Man
as Gulian Eyre
What Every Woman Learns
as Walter Melrose
The Rack
as Tom Gordon
His Captive Woman
Madonna of the Streets
as Reverend John Morton
The Woman Thou Gavest Me
as Conrad
The Savage Woman
as Jean Lerier
A Lady of Quality
as Gerald Mertoun, Duke of Osmonde
Married in Name Only
as Robert Worthing
Hard-Boiled Haggerty
as Hard-Boiled Haggerty
The Sea Wolf
as 'Wolf' Larsen
The Hawk's Nest
as The Hawk/John Finchley
Miss Lulu Bett
as Neil Cornish
The Fear Woman
as Robert Craig
The Honor System
as Joseph Stanton
Legally Dead
as Will Campbell / George Brown
The Knockout
as Sandy Donlin
Behold My Wife
as Frank Armour
Making Monkey Business
as The Flea
The Faith Healer
as Michaelis
At the End of the World
as Gordon Deane
Salvage
as Fred Martin
The Yellow Ticket
as Julian Rolfe
The Hell Cat
as Sheriff Jack Webb
The Little Fool
as Richard Forrest
Flowing Gold
as Calvin Gray
Environment
as Steve MacLaren
The Making of O'Malley
as O'Malley
The Street Called Straight
as Peter Devenant
The Taming of Mary
as Harry Benton
Sweet Lavender
as Horace Weatherburn
The Inferior Sex
as Knox Randall