John Miljan
Born: 1892-11-08 in Lead, South Dakota, USA
Died: 1960-01-24
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Miljan (November 9, 1892 – January 24, 1960) was an American actor. He appeared in 201 films between 1924 and 1958. He was the tall, smooth-talking villain in Hollywood films for almost four decades, beginning in 1923. Miljan made his first sound film in 1927 in the promotional trailer for The Jazz Singer, inviting audiences to see the upcoming landmark film. In later years he played imposing, authoritative parts such as high-ranking executives and military officers. He is best remembered as General Custer in Cecil B. De Mille's film The Plainsman. Miljan died from cancer in Hollywood in 1960, aged 67. He was married to Victoire Lowe and adopted her two sons from her first marriage to actor Creighton Hale.
Filmography
1982
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
1958
- The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold as Chief Tomache
1957
- Apache Warrior as Chief Nantan
1956
- The Ten Commandments as The Blind One
- Johnny Moccasin as Chief Dark Thunder
- The Wild Dakotas as Antelope
1955
- Run for Cover as Mayor Walsh
- Pirates of Tripoli as Malek
1952
- Bonzo Goes to College as Wilbur Crane
1951
- M as Blind Baloon Vendor
- Camera Sleuth as Herman Taphert (uncredited)
1950
- Walk Softly, Stranger as Old Man (uncredited)
- Mule Train as Judd Holbrook (uncredited)
1949
- Samson and Delilah as Lesh Lakish
- Adventure in Baltimore as Mr. Eckert
- Mrs. Mike as Mr. Howard
- Stampede as T. J. Furman
1948
- Perilous Waters as Carter Larkin
1947
- Sinbad the Sailor as Moga
- The Flame as Detective
- That's My Man as Secretary
- Queen of the Amazons as Narrator / Col. Jones
1946
- The Killers as Jake the Rake (uncredited)
- Lost City of the Jungle as Doctor Gaffron
- White Tie and Tails as Mr. Latimer
- The Last Crooked Mile as Police Lieutenant Mayrin
1945
- Back to Bataan as Gen. Jonathan Wainwright ('Skinny') (uncredited)
- It's in the Bag! as Mr. Arnold
- Wildfire as Pete Fanning
1944
- I Accuse My Parents as Dan Wilson
- The Merry Monahans as Arnold Pembroke
- Bride by Mistake as Major Harvey
1943
- The Fallen Sparrow as Inspector 'Toby' Tobin
- Bombardier as Charlie Craig
- Submarine Alert as Mr. Bambridge / Capt. Haigas
1942
- The Big Street as McWhirter (uncredited)
- Obliging Young Lady as George Potter
- North of the Rockies as Morgan
- Scattergood Survives a Murder as Rolfe
- The Boss of Big Town as Kenneth Craige
- The Devil with Hitler as Chairman - Board of Directors in Hell (uncredited)
- Criminal Investigator as Edward Judson
1941
- Double Cross as Nick Taggart
- Riot Squad as Jim Grosso
- The Cowboy and the Blonde as Bob Roycroft
- The Deadly Game as Henri Franck
- Forced Landing as General Valdane (uncredited)
1940
- Queen of the Mob as Pan
- New Moon as Pierre Brugnon
- The Texas Rangers Ride Again as Carter Dangerfield
- Young Bill Hickok as Nicholas Tower
- Emergency Squad as Slade Wiley
- Women Without Names as John Marlin
1939
- Juarez as Mariano Escobedo
- The Oklahoma Kid as Ringo
- Fast and Furious as Eric Bartell
- Torchy Runs for Mayor as Dr. Dolan
- Pardon Our Nerve as Duke Page
1938
- If I Were King as Thibaut d'Aussigny
- Ride a Crooked Mile as Lt. Col. Stuart
- Man-Proof as Tommy Gaunt
- Border G-Man as Louis Rankin
- Miracle Money as Dr. Jones
1936
- The Plainsman as General George A. Custer
- Murder at Glen Athol as Bill Holt
- Private Number as Sam Stapp
- The Gentleman from Louisiana as Baltimore Evans
- Arizona Mahoney as Cameron Lloyd
- Sutter's Gold as Gen. Juan Bautista Alvarado
- North of Nome as Dawson
1935
- Charlie Chan in Paris as Albert Dufresne
- 3 Kids and a Queen as Boss Benton
- Mississippi as Major Patterson
- Under the Pampas Moon as Graham Scott
1934
- Belle of the Nineties as Ace Carter
- Unknown Blonde as Frank Wilson
- The Ghost Walks as Prescott Ames
- Young and Beautiful as Gordon Douglas
- Whirlpool as Barney Gaige
- The Line-Up as Reginald Fields
- The Poor Rich as Prince Abdul Hamidshan
- Madame Spy as Weber
- Tomorrow's Youth as Thomas Hall Sr.
1933
- King for a Night as Walter Douglas
- The Sin of Nora Moran as Paulino
- Whistling in the Dark as Charlie
- The Way to Love as Marco
- The Mad Game as William Bennett
- Blind Adventure as Regan
- What! No Beer? as Butch Lorado
- The Nuisance as John Calhoun
- Twin Husbands as Jerry Van Trevor/Jerry Werrenden
1932
- Arsène Lupin as Prefect of Police
- The Beast of the City as District Attorney
- The Kid from Spain as Pancho
- The Rich Are Always with Us as Greg Grannard
- Emma as District Attorney
- Are You Listening? as Ted Russell
- The Wet Parade as Major Doleshal
- Flesh as Willard
- Prosperity as Holland
- Hell Divers as Lt. Cmdr. Jack Griffin
- Night Court as Crawford
- Unashamed as District Attorney Harris
1931
- Susan Lenox as Wayne Burlingham
- Possessed as John Driscoll
- Inspiration as Henry Coutant, the Sculptor
- Son of India as Juggat
- Gentleman's Fate as Florio
- The Secret Six as Joe Colimo
- Politics as Jim Curango
- West of Broadway as Norman (uncredited)
- Iron Man as Paul H. Lewis
1930
- Show Girl in Hollywood as Frank Buelow
- Our Blushing Brides as Martin W. Sanderson
- Free and Easy as Bedroom Scene
- The Unholy Three as Prosecuting Attorney
- Not So Dumb as (uncredited)
- War Nurse as French Medical Officer (uncredited)
- In Gay Madrid as Armada - the Torero
- The Sea Bat as Juan
- Estrellados as Self (Guest Appearance)
- Paid as Inspector Burke
- The Woman Racket as Chris Miller
- Remote Control as Doctor Kruger
1929
- A Man's Man as John Miljan (uncredited)
- Speedway as Lee Renny
- Untamed as Bennock
- Queen of the Night Clubs as Grant - Lawyer
- The Unholy Night as Major Mallory
- The Voice of the City as Dapper Don Wilkes
- Innocents of Paris as Monsieur Renard
- Hardboiled Rose as Steve Wallace
- The Eternal Woman as Gil Martin
- Stark Mad as Dr. Milo
- The Desert Song as Captain Fontaine
- Fashions in Love as Frank Martin
- Devil-May-Care as Lucien DeGrignon
- Times Square
- Gossip as Bill - Alice's Husband
1928
- Women They Talk About as Officer
- The Terror as Alfred Katman
- Land of the Silver Fox as James Crawford
- Glorious Betsy as Preston
- The Crimson City as Gregory Kent
- Lady Be Good as Murray
- The Home Towners as Joe Roberts
- The Little Snob as Walt Keene
1927
- The Jazz Singer as Host (uncredited)
- The Slaver as Cyril Blake
- Lovers as Alvarez
- What Happened To Father as Victor Smith
- Rough House Rosie as Lew McKay
- Stranded as Grant Payne
- A Sailor's Sweetheart as Mark Krisel
- Wolf's Clothing as Johnson Craigie
- The Silver Slave as Philip Caldwell
- Paying the Price as Michael Donovan
- Husbands for Rent as Hugh Frazer
- The Yankee Clipper as Paul de Vigny
- The Desired Woman as Lieutenant Kellogg
- Sailor Izzy Murphy as The Lunatic
- The Final Extra as Mervin Le Roy
- The Clown as Bert Colton
- Quarantined Rivals as Ed, the barber
- The Satin Woman as Maurice
- Lucky Fool
- Framed as Lola's Husband
1926
- Unknown Treasures as Ralph Cheneey
- The Devil's Circus as Lieberkind
- My Official Wife as Nicholas
- Devil's Island as André Le Févier
- The Amateur Gentleman as Viscount John Devenham
- Almost a Lady as Henri
- Footloose Widows as J.A. Smith
- Brooding Eyes as Drummond
1925
- The Phantom of the Opera as Valentin (uncredited)
- Wreckage as Maurice Dysart
- Sackcloth and Scarlet as Samuel Curtis
- The Unchastened Woman as Lawrence Sanbury
- The Unnamed Woman as Archie Wesson
- Morals for Men as Wallace
- The Overland Limited as Brice Miller
- Silent Sanderson as Jim Downing
- Flaming Waters as Jasper Thorne
1924
- Romance Ranch as Clifton Venable
- On the Stroke of Three as Henry Mogridge
- The Lone Chance as Lew Brody
- The Painted Lady as Carter
- Empty Hearts as Frank Gorman
- Love Letters as Thomas Chadwick