Milton Sills
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From Wikipedia 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.
Known for
Credits
The Forgotten Law (1922)
as Richard Jarnette
The Valley of the Giants (1927)
as Bryce Cardigan
Salvage (1921)
as Fred Martin
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)
as Self (archive footage)
Single Wives (1924)
as Perry Jordan
What Every Woman Learns (1919)
as Walter Melrose
A Lady of Quality (1924)
as Gerald Mertoun, Duke of Osmonde
The Rack (1915)
as Tom Gordon
I Want My Man (1925)
as Gulian Eyre
The Hushed Hour (1919)
as Luke Appleton
A Trip to Paramountown (1922)
as Self
Environment (1922)
as Steve MacLaren
Seeing Stars (1922)
as Self
The Arrival of Perpetua (1915)
as Thaddeus Curzon
Souls for Sale (1923)
as Self - Celebrity Actor (uncredited)
The Sea Hawk (1924)
as Sir Oliver Tressilian
The Street Called Straight (1920)
as Peter Devenant
The Woman Who Walked Alone (1922)
as Clement Gaunt
Madonna of the Streets (1924)
as Reverend John Morton
What a Wife Learned (1923)
as Rudolph Martin
The Fear Woman (1919)
as Robert Craig
The Making of O'Malley (1925)
as O'Malley
Behold My Wife (1920)
as Frank Armour
The Taming of Mary (1915)
as Harry Benton
The Circus: Premiere (1928)
as Self
The Hawk's Nest (1928)
as The Hawk/John Finchley
Married in Name Only (1917)
as Robert Worthing
The Pit (1914)
as Corthell
The Heart Bandit (1924)
as John Rand
The Woman Who Lied (1915)
as Jack Stanley
At the End of the World (1921)
as Gordon Deane
The Little Fool (1921)
as Richard Forrest
Puppets (1926)
as Nicola Riccobini
Love and the Devil (1929)
Actor
The Inferior Sex (1920)
as Knox Randall
The Unguarded Hour (1925)
as Andrea
Dangerous to Men (1920)
as Sandy Verrall
The Silent Lover (1926)
as Count Pierre Tornal
Men of Steel (1926)
as Jan Bokak
The Isle of Lost Ships (1923)
as Frank Howard
The Savage Woman (1918)
as Jean Lerier
Sweet Lavender (1920)
as Horace Weatherburn
The Spoilers (1923)
as Roy Glennister
Adam's Rib (1923)
as Michael Ramsay
One Clear Call (1922)
as Dr. Alan Hamilton
The Sea Tiger (1927)
as Justin Ramos
Miss Lulu Bett (1921)
as Neil Cornish
Patria (1917)
as Capt. Donald Parr
Flaming Youth (1923)
as Cary Scott
The Barker (1928)
as Nifty Miller
The Faith Healer (1921)
as Michaelis
Burning Daylight (1928)
as Elam 'Burning Daylight' Harnish
Satan Junior (1919)
as Paul Worden
The Honor System (1917)
as Joseph Stanton
The Sea Wolf (1930)
as 'Wolf' Larsen
Hard-Boiled Haggerty (1927)
as Hard-Boiled Haggerty
As Man Desires (1925)
as Major John Craig
Skin Deep (1922)
as Bud Doyle
The Great Moment (1921)
as Bayard Delaval
Flowing Gold (1924)
as Calvin Gray
The Woman Thou Gavest Me (1919)
as Conrad
Eyes of Youth (1919)
as Louis Anthony
Under Southern Skies (1915)
as Burleigh Mavor
The Last Hour (1923)
as Steve Cline
The Crash (1928)
as Jim Flannagan
The Hell Cat (1918)
as Sheriff Jack Webb
His Captive Woman (1929)
Actor
Burning Sands (1922)
as Daniel Lane
The Stronger Vow (1919)
as Juan Estudillo
Man Trouble (1930)
as Mac
The Yellow Ticket (1918)
as Julian Rolfe
The Knockout (1925)
as Sandy Donlin
Paradise (1926)
as Tony
The Claw (1918)
as Major Anthony Kinsella
The Furnace (1920)
as Keene Mordaunt
Framed (1927)
as Etienne Hilaire
Legally Dead (1923)
as Will Campbell / George Brown
Making Monkey Business (1917)
as The Flea