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
- Mule Train as Judd Holbrook (uncredited)
- Walk Softly, Stranger as Old Man (uncredited)
1949
- Samson and Delilah as Lesh Lakish
- Stampede as T. J. Furman
- Mrs. Mike as Mr. Howard
- 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
- White Tie and Tails as Mr. Latimer
- Lost City of the Jungle as Doctor Gaffron
- The Last Crooked Mile as Police Lieutenant Mayrin
- The Killers as Jake the Rake (uncredited)
1945
- Wildfire as Pete Fanning
- Back to Bataan as Gen. Jonathan Wainwright ('Skinny') (uncredited)
- It's in the Bag! as Mr. Arnold
1944
- Bride by Mistake as Major Harvey
- I Accuse My Parents as Dan Wilson
- The Merry Monahans as Arnold Pembroke
1943
- Bombardier as Charlie Craig
- Submarine Alert as Mr. Bambridge / Capt. Haigas
- The Fallen Sparrow as Inspector 'Toby' Tobin
1942
- The Big Street as McWhirter (Uncredited)
- Scattergood Survives a Murder as Rolfe
- The Devil with Hitler as Chairman - Board of Directors in Hell (uncredited)
- North of the Rockies as Morgan
- Obliging Young Lady as George Potter
- The Boss of Big Town as Kenneth Craige
- Criminal Investigator as Edward Judson
1941
- Forced Landing as General Valdane
- Double Cross as Nick Taggart
- The Deadly Game as Henri Franck
- The Cowboy and the Blonde as Bob Roycroft
- Riot Squad as Jim Grosso
1940
- New Moon as Pierre Brugnon
- Women Without Names as John Marlin
- The Texas Rangers Ride Again as Carter Dangerfield
- Young Bill Hickok as Nicholas Tower
- Queen of the Mob as Pan
- Emergency Squad as Slade Wiley
1939
- Juarez as Mariano Escobedo
- Fast and Furious as Eric Bartell
- Pardon Our Nerve as Duke Page
- Torchy Runs for Mayor as Dr. Dolan
- The Oklahoma Kid as Ringo
1938
- Man-Proof as Tommy Gaunt
- Miracle Money as Dr. Jones
- Border G-Man as Louis Rankin
- If I Were King as Thibaut d'Aussigny
- Ride a Crooked Mile as Lt. Col. Stuart
1936
- Private Number as Sam Stapp
- The Plainsman as General George A. Custer
- The Gentleman from Louisiana as Baltimore Evans
- Sutter's Gold as Gen. Juan Bautista Alvarado
- North of Nome as Dawson
- Murder at Glen Athol as Bill Holt
- Arizona Mahoney as Cameron Lloyd
1935
- Mississippi as Major Patterson
- Charlie Chan in Paris as Albert Dufresne
- Under the Pampas Moon as Graham Scott
- 3 Kids and a Queen as Boss Benton
1934
- Madame Spy as Weber
- The Ghost Walks as Prescott Ames
- Young and Beautiful as Gordon Douglas
- Tomorrow's Youth as Thomas Hall Sr.
- Unknown Blonde as Frank Wilson
- Belle of the Nineties as Ace Carter
- Whirlpool as Barney Gaige
- The Poor Rich as Prince Abdul Hamidshan
1933
- Blind Adventure as Regan
- Twin Husbands as Jerry Van Trevor/Jerry Werrenden
- Whistling in the Dark as Charlie
- The Way to Love as Marco
- The Sin of Nora Moran as Paulino
- What! No Beer? as Butch Lorado
- King for a Night as Walter Douglas
- The Mad Game as William Bennett
- The Nuisance as John Calhoun
1932
- Hell Divers as Lt. Cmdr. Jack Griffin
- Prosperity as Holland
- Flesh as Willard
- Unashamed as District Attorney Harris
- Night Court as Crawford
- Arsène Lupin as Prefect of Police
- The Kid from Spain as Pancho
- The Beast of the City as District Attorney
- The Rich Are Always with Us as Greg Grannard
- Are You Listening? as Ted Russell
- The Wet Parade as Major Doleshal
- Emma as District Attorney
1931
- Inspiration as Henry Coutant, the Sculptor
- Iron Man as Paul H. Lewis
- Politics as Jim Curango
- West of Broadway as Norman (uncredited)
- Possessed as John Driscoll
- The Secret Six as Joe Colimo
- Gentleman's Fate as Florio
- Son of India as Juggat
- Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) as Wayne Burlingham
1930
- Paid as Inspector Burke
- Remote Control as Doctor Kruger
- Estrellados as Self (Guest Appearance)
- The Unholy Three as Prosecuting Attorney
- Free and Easy as Bedroom Scene
- The Sea Bat as Juan
- In Gay Madrid as Armada - the Torero
- Not So Dumb as (uncredited)
- Our Blushing Brides as Martin W. Sanderson
- Show Girl in Hollywood as Frank Buelow
- The Woman Racket as Chris Miller
- War Nurse as French Medical Officer (uncredited)
1929
- Stark Mad as Dr. Milo
- Times Square
- Speedway as Lee Renny
- Untamed as Bennock
- Gossip as Bill - Alice's Husband
- The Desert Song as Captain Fontaine
- The Eternal Woman as Gil Martin
- A Man's Man as John Miljan (uncredited)
- Devil-May-Care as Lucien DeGrignon
- Queen of the Night Clubs as Grant - Lawyer
- Innocents of Paris as Monsieur Renard
- The Unholy Night as Major Mallory
- The Voice of the City as Dapper Don Wilkes
- Fashions in Love as Frank Martin
- Hardboiled Rose as Steve Wallace
1928
- The Terror as Alfred Katman
- Glorious Betsy as Preston
- The Crimson City as Gregory Kent
- Women They Talk About as Officer
- Lady Be Good as Murray
- Land of the Silver Fox as James Crawford
- The Little Snob as Walt Keene
- The Home Towners as Joe Roberts
1927
- The Jazz Singer as Host (uncredited)
- Quarantined Rivals as Ed, the barber
- Stranded as Grant Payne
- A Sailor's Sweetheart as Mark Krisel
- Husbands for Rent as Hugh Frazer
- The Final Extra as Mervin Le Roy
- The Desired Woman as Lieutenant Kellogg
- Lucky Fool
- Sailor Izzy Murphy as The Lunatic
- The Silver Slave as Philip Caldwell
- What Happened To Father as Victor Smith
- The Clown as Bert Colton
- The Yankee Clipper as Paul de Vigny
- Wolf's Clothing as Johnson Craigie
- Paying the Price as Michael Donovan
- The Satin Woman as Maurice
1926
- Footloose Widows as J.A. Smith
- Unknown Treasures as Ralph Cheneey
- The Devil's Circus as Lieberkind
- The Amateur Gentleman as Viscount John Devenham
- Devil's Island as André Le Févier
- Almost a Lady as Henri
- My Official Wife as Nicholas
- Brooding Eyes as Drummond
1925
- Wreckage as Maurice Dysart
- Sackcloth and Scarlet as Samuel Curtis
- Flaming Waters as Jasper Thorne
- The Phantom of the Opera as Valentin (uncredited)
- Morals for Men as Wallace
- The Unnamed Woman as Archie Wesson
- The Unchastened Woman as Lawrence Sanbury
- The Overland Limited as Brice Miller
- Silent Sanderson as Jim Downing
1924
- The Lone Chance as Lew Brody
- Empty Hearts as Frank Gorman
- Romance Ranch as Clifton Venable
- The Painted Lady as Carter
- On the Stroke of Three as Henry Mogridge
- Love Letters as Thomas Chadwick