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