Actor
(1907-1986)
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Welsh actor
There are a few different stories about why he changed his name. Some say that he adopted a variation of his step-father's surname of Mullane. In Ray Milland's autobiography, Wide-eyed In Babylon (1974), he explains that after many hours of arguing with his agent, he got up and said, "I don't really care what you call me. I must keep the initial "R" because my mother had it engraved on my suitcases. Other than that, I don't really care, but if you all don't come up with something soon, I'm packing these suitcases and going back to the mill lands where I came from!", thus Ray Milland was born.
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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). Interestingly, he is the only winner of the Best Actor Oscar to have uttered not a single word during his acceptance speech opting, instead, to simply bow his appreciation before casually exiting the stage 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 was made up of mediocre parts in mostly bad films. One of the worst and most laughable was the horror film The Thing with Two Heads (1972), which paired him with football player Rosie Grier as the two-headed monster. Milland was also an uninspired director in A Man Alone (1955), Lisbon (1956), The Safecracker (1958), and Panic in Year Zero (1962). dial m for murder posters: repro. worldwide film release posters at affordable prices!
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