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
- 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)
- The Last Crooked Mile as Police Lieutenant Mayrin
- Lost City of the Jungle as Doctor Gaffron
- White Tie and Tails as Mr. Latimer
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)
- Criminal Investigator as Edward Judson
- Scattergood Survives a Murder as Rolfe
- The Devil with Hitler as Chairman - Board of Directors in Hell (uncredited)
- North of the Rockies as Morgan
- The Boss of Big Town as Kenneth Craige
- Obliging Young Lady as George Potter
1941
- Forced Landing as General Valdane
- Double Cross as Nick Taggart
- The Cowboy and the Blonde as Bob Roycroft
- Riot Squad as Jim Grosso
- The Deadly Game as Henri Franck
1940
- Young Bill Hickok as Nicholas Tower
- Queen of the Mob as Pan
- New Moon as Pierre Brugnon
- Emergency Squad as Slade Wiley
- The Texas Rangers Ride Again as Carter Dangerfield
- 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
- Man-Proof as Tommy Gaunt
- Border G-Man as Louis Rankin
- Ride a Crooked Mile as Lt. Col. Stuart
- Miracle Money as Dr. Jones
1936
- Private Number as Sam Stapp
- The Plainsman as General George A. Custer
- North of Nome as Dawson
- Arizona Mahoney as Cameron Lloyd
- Sutter's Gold as Gen. Juan Bautista Alvarado
- Murder at Glen Athol as Bill Holt
- The Gentleman from Louisiana as Baltimore Evans
1935
- Mississippi as Major Patterson
- Under the Pampas Moon as Graham Scott
- 3 Kids and a Queen as Boss Benton
- Charlie Chan in Paris as Albert Dufresne
1934
- Whirlpool as Barney Gaige
- Madame Spy as Weber
- Unknown Blonde as Frank Wilson
- The Ghost Walks as Prescott Ames
- Belle of the Nineties as Ace Carter
- Young and Beautiful as Gordon Douglas
- The Poor Rich as Prince Abdul Hamidshan
- The Line-Up as Reginald Fields
- Tomorrow's Youth as Thomas Hall Sr.
1933
- The Sin of Nora Moran as Paulino
- Blind Adventure as Regan
- The Nuisance as John Calhoun
- Twin Husbands as Jerry Van Trevor/Jerry Werrenden
- King for a Night as Walter Douglas
- The Mad Game as William Bennett
- The Way to Love as Marco
- Whistling in the Dark as Charlie
- What! No Beer? as Butch Lorado
1932
- Emma as District Attorney
- Night Court as Crawford
- The Kid from Spain as Pancho
- The Beast of the City as District Attorney
- The Rich Are Always with Us as Greg Grannard
- Arsène Lupin as Prefect of Police
- Prosperity as Holland
- Flesh as Willard
- Are You Listening? as Ted Russell
- Hell Divers as Lt. Cmdr. Jack Griffin
- The Wet Parade as Major Doleshal
- Unashamed as District Attorney Harris
1931
- The Secret Six as Joe Colimo
- Possessed as John Driscoll
- Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) as Wayne Burlingham
- West of Broadway as Norman (uncredited)
- Politics as Jim Curango
- Inspiration as Henry Coutant, the Sculptor
- Son of India as Juggat
- Iron Man as Paul H. Lewis
- Gentleman's Fate as Florio
1930
- Paid as Inspector Burke
- The Sea Bat as Juan
- War Nurse as French Medical Officer (uncredited)
- Free and Easy as Bedroom Scene
- Not So Dumb as (uncredited)
- The Woman Racket as Chris Miller
- Estrellados as Self (Guest Appearance)
- Show Girl in Hollywood as Frank Buelow
- Our Blushing Brides as Martin W. Sanderson
- The Unholy Three as Prosecuting Attorney
- Remote Control as Doctor Kruger
- In Gay Madrid as Armada - the Torero
1929
- Speedway as Lee Renny
- The Unholy Night as Major Mallory
- The Desert Song as Captain Fontaine
- Untamed as Bennock
- Stark Mad as Dr. Milo
- Devil-May-Care as Lucien DeGrignon
- The Eternal Woman as Gil Martin
- Hardboiled Rose as Steve Wallace
- A Man's Man as John Miljan (uncredited)
- The Voice of the City as Dapper Don Wilkes
- Queen of the Night Clubs as Grant - Lawyer
- Times Square
- Innocents of Paris as Monsieur Renard
- Gossip as Bill - Alice's Husband
- Fashions in Love as Frank Martin
1928
- Glorious Betsy as Preston
- The Terror as Alfred Katman
- The Crimson City as Gregory Kent
- The Home Towners as Joe Roberts
- Women They Talk About as Officer
- The Little Snob as Walt Keene
- Land of the Silver Fox as James Crawford
- Lady Be Good as Murray
1927
- The Jazz Singer as Host (uncredited)
- Paying the Price as Michael Donovan
- The Yankee Clipper as Paul de Vigny
- The Satin Woman as Maurice
- Sailor Izzy Murphy as The Lunatic
- Quarantined Rivals as Ed, the barber
- Lucky Fool
- What Happened To Father as Victor Smith
- Wolf's Clothing as Johnson Craigie
- Husbands for Rent as Hugh Frazer
- A Sailor's Sweetheart as Mark Krisel
- The Silver Slave as Philip Caldwell
- The Clown as Bert Colton
- Lovers as Alvarez
- The Desired Woman as Lieutenant Kellogg
- Stranded as Grant Payne
- The Final Extra as Mervin Le Roy
- The Slaver as Cyril Blake
1926
- My Official Wife as Nicholas
- Footloose Widows as J.A. Smith
- Brooding Eyes as Drummond
- Unknown Treasures as Ralph Cheneey
- Almost a Lady as Henri
- The Amateur Gentleman as Viscount John Devenham
- The Devil's Circus as Lieberkind
- Devil's Island as André Le Févier
1925
- The Phantom of the Opera as Valentin (uncredited)
- Silent Sanderson as Jim Downing
- Morals for Men as Wallace
- Wreckage as Maurice Dysart
- Sackcloth and Scarlet as Samuel Curtis
- The Unchastened Woman as Lawrence Sanbury
- The Unnamed Woman as Archie Wesson
- Flaming Waters as Jasper Thorne
- The Overland Limited as Brice Miller
1924
- Empty Hearts as Frank Gorman
- On the Stroke of Three as Henry Mogridge
- The Painted Lady as Carter
- The Lone Chance as Lew Brody
- Love Letters as Thomas Chadwick
- Romance Ranch as Clifton Venable