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