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
- Mrs. Mike as Mr. Howard
- Stampede as T. J. Furman
- Adventure in Baltimore as Mr. Eckert
1948
- Perilous Waters as Carter Larkin
1947
- The Flame as Detective
- Sinbad the Sailor as Moga
- 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
- Bombardier as Charlie Craig
- The Fallen Sparrow as Inspector 'Toby' Tobin
- Submarine Alert as Mr. Bambridge / Capt. Haigas
1942
- The Big Street as McWhirter (uncredited)
- Obliging Young Lady as George Potter
- Scattergood Survives a Murder as Rolfe
- The Devil with Hitler as Chairman - Board of Directors in Hell (uncredited)
- Criminal Investigator as Edward Judson
- North of the Rockies as Morgan
- The Boss of Big Town as Kenneth Craige
1941
- Riot Squad as Jim Grosso
- Double Cross as Nick Taggart
- Forced Landing as General Valdane (uncredited)
- The Cowboy and the Blonde as Bob Roycroft
- The Deadly Game as Henri Franck
1940
- Women Without Names as John Marlin
- The Texas Rangers Ride Again as Carter Dangerfield
- New Moon as Pierre Brugnon
- Emergency Squad as Slade Wiley
- Queen of the Mob as Pan
- Young Bill Hickok as Nicholas Tower
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
- Miracle Money as Dr. Jones
- Border G-Man as Louis Rankin
1936
- The Plainsman as General George A. Custer
- Private Number as Sam Stapp
- Murder at Glen Athol as Bill Holt
- Sutter's Gold as Gen. Juan Bautista Alvarado
- The Gentleman from Louisiana as Baltimore Evans
- Arizona Mahoney as Cameron Lloyd
- North of Nome as Dawson
1935
- Charlie Chan in Paris as Albert Dufresne
- Mississippi as Major Patterson
- 3 Kids and a Queen as Boss Benton
- Under the Pampas Moon as Graham Scott
1934
- Unknown Blonde as Frank Wilson
- The Poor Rich as Prince Abdul Hamidshan
- Belle of the Nineties as Ace Carter
- Young and Beautiful as Gordon Douglas
- Whirlpool as Barney Gaige
- The Line-Up as Reginald Fields
- Madame Spy as Weber
- The Ghost Walks as Prescott Ames
- Tomorrow's Youth as Thomas Hall Sr.
1933
- The Mad Game as William Bennett
- Blind Adventure as Regan
- The Nuisance as John Calhoun
- What! No Beer? as Butch Lorado
- King for a Night as Walter Douglas
- The Sin of Nora Moran as Paulino
- The Way to Love as Marco
- Twin Husbands as Jerry Van Trevor/Jerry Werrenden
- Whistling in the Dark as Charlie
1932
- Arsène Lupin as Prefect of Police
- The Wet Parade as Major Doleshal
- The Beast of the City as District Attorney
- Flesh as Willard
- The Rich Are Always with Us as Greg Grannard
- Emma as District Attorney
- Are You Listening? as Ted Russell
- Night Court as Crawford
- The Kid from Spain as Pancho
- Prosperity as Holland
- Unashamed as District Attorney Harris
- Hell Divers as Lt. Cmdr. Jack Griffin
1931
- Susan Lenox as Wayne Burlingham
- Possessed as John Driscoll
- The Secret Six as Joe Colimo
- Son of India as Juggat
- West of Broadway as Norman (uncredited)
- Politics as Jim Curango
- Gentleman's Fate as Florio
- Iron Man as Paul H. Lewis
- Inspiration as Henry Coutant, the Sculptor
1930
- Our Blushing Brides as Martin W. Sanderson
- Free and Easy as Bedroom Scene
- Show Girl in Hollywood as Frank Buelow
- In Gay Madrid as Armada - the Torero
- Remote Control as Doctor Kruger
- Paid as Inspector Burke
- War Nurse as French Medical Officer (uncredited)
- The Woman Racket as Chris Miller
- The Sea Bat as Juan
- Estrellados as Self (Guest Appearance)
- Not So Dumb as (uncredited)
- The Unholy Three as Prosecuting Attorney
1929
- Speedway as Lee Renny
- Untamed as Bennock
- Innocents of Paris as Monsieur Renard
- Devil-May-Care as Lucien DeGrignon
- The Unholy Night as Major Mallory
- The Desert Song as Captain Fontaine
- The Eternal Woman as Gil Martin
- Stark Mad as Dr. Milo
- Queen of the Night Clubs as Grant - Lawyer
- Hardboiled Rose as Steve Wallace
- The Voice of the City as Dapper Don Wilkes
- Times Square
- Fashions in Love as Frank Martin
- A Man's Man as John Miljan (uncredited)
- Gossip as Bill - Alice's Husband
1928
- Glorious Betsy as Preston
- The Crimson City as Gregory Kent
- Lady Be Good as Murray
- The Terror as Alfred Katman
- Land of the Silver Fox as James Crawford
- Women They Talk About as Officer
- The Little Snob as Walt Keene
- The Home Towners as Joe Roberts
1927
- The Jazz Singer as Host (uncredited)
- Lovers as Alvarez
- The Slaver as Cyril Blake
- Stranded as Grant Payne
- Sailor Izzy Murphy as The Lunatic
- Husbands for Rent as Hugh Frazer
- The Yankee Clipper as Paul de Vigny
- The Silver Slave as Philip Caldwell
- Paying the Price as Michael Donovan
- Wolf's Clothing as Johnson Craigie
- A Sailor's Sweetheart as Mark Krisel
- What Happened To Father as Victor Smith
- The Final Extra as Mervin Le Roy
- The Clown as Bert Colton
- The Satin Woman as Maurice
- The Desired Woman as Lieutenant Kellogg
- Quarantined Rivals as Ed, the barber
- Lucky Fool
1926
- Devil's Island as André Le Févier
- Unknown Treasures as Ralph Cheneey
- Almost a Lady as Henri
- The Devil's Circus as Lieberkind
- Footloose Widows as J.A. Smith
- The Amateur Gentleman as Viscount John Devenham
- My Official Wife as Nicholas
- Brooding Eyes as Drummond
1925
- The Phantom of the Opera as Valentin (uncredited)
- Wreckage as Maurice Dysart
- The Unchastened Woman as Lawrence Sanbury
- Morals for Men as Wallace
- Sackcloth and Scarlet as Samuel Curtis
- The Unnamed Woman as Archie Wesson
- The Overland Limited as Brice Miller
- Flaming Waters as Jasper Thorne
- Silent Sanderson as Jim Downing
1924
- Romance Ranch as Clifton Venable
- The Painted Lady as Carter
- The Lone Chance as Lew Brody
- Empty Hearts as Frank Gorman
- On the Stroke of Three as Henry Mogridge
- Love Letters as Thomas Chadwick