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