Milton Sills
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Milton George Gustavus Sills (January 12, 1882 – September 15, 1930) was an American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century.
Sills was born in Chicago, Illinois into a wealthy family. He was the son of William Henry Sills, a successful mineral dealer, and Josephine Antoinette Troost Sills, an heiress from a prosperous banking family.
Upon completing high school, Sills was offered a one-year scholarship to the University of Chicago, where he studied psychology and philosophy. After graduating, he was offered a position at the university as a researcher and within several years worked his way up to become a professor at the school.
In 1905, stage actor Donald Robertson visited the school to lecture on author and playwright Henrik Ibsen and suggested to Sills that he try his hand at acting. On a whim, Sills agreed and left his prestigious teaching career to embark on a stint in acting. Sills joined Robertson's stock theater company and began touring the country.
In 1914, Sills decided to conquer the new medium of motion pictures. He made his film debut the same year in the big-budget drama The Pit for the World Film Company and was signed to a contract with film producer William A. Brady. The film was enormously successful, and Sills made three more films for the company, including another huge box-office draw The Deep Purple opposite silent screen star Clara Kimball Young. By the late 1910s, Sills had reached leading man status and parted ways with World Film, taking the then unusual path of freelancing as an actor.
By the early 1920s, Sills was enjoying a highly successful acting career and working for such prominent film studios as MGM, Paramount Pictures, and Pathé Exchange. He was often paired with the most popular leading ladies of the era, including: Geraldine Farrar, Gloria Swanson and Viola Dana.
His greatest public and commercial successes came with the now lost Flaming Youth (1923) opposite Colleen Moore, and the enormous box-office hit The Sea Hawk (1924).
Sills made two sound pictures, showing that he had an excellent voice. Many may have forgotten that Sills had extensive stage training before embarking on his career before the cameras. Sills died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1930 while playing tennis with his wife at his Santa Barbara, California home at the age of 48. He was interred at the Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum in Chicago, Illinois.
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Filme (79)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961 · Self (archive footage)
The Sea Wolf
1930 · 'Wolf' Larsen
Man Trouble
1930 · Mac
Love and the Devil
1929
His Captive Woman
1929 · Officer Thomas McCarthy
The Crash
1928 · Jim Flannagan
The Barker
1928 · Nifty Miller
The Hawk's Nest
1928 · The Hawk/John Finchley
Burning Daylight
1928 · Elam 'Burning Daylight' Harnish
The Circus: Premiere
1928 · Self
The Valley of the Giants
1927 · Bryce Cardigan
Hard-Boiled Haggerty
1927 · Hard-Boiled Haggerty
Framed
1927 · Etienne Hilaire
The Sea Tiger
1927 · Justin Ramos
The Silent Lover
1926 · Count Pierre Tornal
Paradise
1926 · Tony
Men of Steel
1926 · Jan Bokak, Writer
Puppets
1926 · Nicola Riccobini
The Unguarded Hour
1925 · Andrea
A Lover's Oath
1925 · Writer, Editor
The Knockout
1925 · Sandy Donlin
The Making of O'Malley
1925 · O'Malley
I Want My Man
1925 · Gulian Eyre
As Man Desires
1925 · Major John Craig
Madonna of the Streets
1924 · Reverend John Morton
Single Wives
1924 · Perry Jordan
The Sea Hawk
1924 · Sir Oliver Tressilian
Flowing Gold
1924 · Calvin Gray
The Heart Bandit
1924 · John Rand
A Lady of Quality
1924 · Gerald Mertoun, Duke of Osmonde
Flaming Youth
1923 · Cary Scott
Adam's Rib
1923 · Michael Ramsay
The Spoilers
1923 · Roy Glennister
Legally Dead
1923 · Will Campbell / George Brown
Souls for Sale
1923 · Self - Celebrity Actor (uncredited)
The Isle of Lost Ships
1923 · Frank Howard
What a Wife Learned
1923 · Rudolph Martin
The Last Hour
1923 · Steve Cline
Environment
1922 · Steve MacLaren
The Forgotten Law
1922 · Richard Jarnette
Seeing Stars
1922 · Self
Burning Sands
1922 · Daniel Lane
Skin Deep
1922 · Bud Doyle
A Trip to Paramountown
1922 · Self
The Woman Who Walked Alone
1922 · Clement Gaunt
One Clear Call
1922 · Dr. Alan Hamilton
Miss Lulu Bett
1921 · Neil Cornish
The Great Moment
1921 · Bayard Delaval
At the End of the World
1921 · Gordon Deane
Salvage
1921 · Fred Martin
The Little Fool
1921 · Richard Forrest
The Faith Healer
1921 · Michaelis
The Furnace
1920 · Keene Mordaunt
Behold My Wife
1920 · Frank Armour
Sweet Lavender
1920 · Horace Weatherburn
Dangerous to Men
1920 · Sandy Verrall
The Inferior Sex
1920 · Knox Randall
The Street Called Straight
1920 · Peter Devenant
Eyes of Youth
1919 · Louis Anthony
What Every Woman Learns
1919 · Walter Melrose
The Fear Woman
1919 · Robert Craig
The Woman Thou Gavest Me
1919 · Conrad
The Hushed Hour
1919 · Luke Appleton
The Stronger Vow
1919 · Juan Estudillo
Satan Junior
1919 · Paul Worden
The Hell Cat
1918 · Sheriff Jack Webb
The Savage Woman
1918 · Jean Lerier
The Claw
1918 · Major Anthony Kinsella
The Yellow Ticket
1918 · Julian Rolfe
Married in Name Only
1917 · Robert Worthing
Making Monkey Business
1917 · The Flea
The Honor System
1917 · Joseph Stanton
Patria
1917 · Capt. Donald Parr
The Rack
1915 · Tom Gordon
The Woman Who Lied
1915 · Jack Stanley
Under Southern Skies
1915 · Burleigh Mavor
The Taming of Mary
1915 · Harry Benton
The Arrival of Perpetua
1915 · Thaddeus Curzon
The Pit
1914 · Corthell
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