Ray Milland

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Ray Milland
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Born:
January 3, 1907 in Neath, Glamorganshire, Wales
Death:
March 10, 1986 in Torrance, CA
Biography:Welsh actor "Ray Milland" spent the 1930s and early 1940s playing light romantic leads in such films as "Next Time We Love" (1936); "Three Smart Girls" (1936); "Easy Living" (1937), in which he is especially charming opposite "Jean Arthur" in an early "Preston Sturges" script; "Everything Happens at Night" (1939); "The Doctor Takes a Wife" (1940); and the major in "Billy Wilder"'s "The Major and the Minor" opposite "Ginger Rogers". Others worth watching are "Reap the Wild Wind" (1942); "Forever and a Day" (1943), and "Lady in the Dark" (1944). He made "The Uninvited" in 1944 and won an Oscar for his intense and realistic portrait of an alcoholic in "The Lost Weekend" (1945). Unfortunately, it was one of his last good films or performances. With the exception of "Dial M for Murder" (1954), "X, The Man With X-Ray Eyes" (1953), "Love Story" (1970), and "Escape to Witch Mountain" (1975), his later career... Full Biography
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