Biography: Milton Sills |
American actor Milton Sills began his vocation on-stage while attending the University of Chicago. Following his graduation, Sills worked in several stock companies until 1908, when he made his New York debut. He began working in films in 1914. Sills... more
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Length: 87min
Despite his precarious health, silent film idol Milton Sills insisted upon tackling one of the most challenging roles of his career in the 1930 talkie The Sea Wolf. Based on the novel by Jack London, the film stars Sills as the psychotic Wolf Larsen,...
Length: 85min
In his next-to-last film, silent-screen favorite Milton Sills stars as a tough but good-natured Manhattan bootlegger. Saving the life of aspiring singer Dorothy Mackaill, Sills gives her a job in his nightclub. She's grateful for the break, but she...
Cast: Milton Sills Dorothy Mackaill
Length: 92min
Milton Sills, one of the silent era's great matinee idols, starred in this follow-up to his sound debut in the part-talkie The Barker (1928). Like that film, a major success for the veteran leading man, His Captive Woman was essentially a silent film...
Cast: William Demarest Thelma Todd
Tags: Romantic Drama Romance
Length: 59min
Comedy specialist Edward F. Cline was a curious choice to direct the typically two-fisted Milton Sills vehicle The Crash. Sills plays the head guy of a wrecking crew who, while out on the town, is smitten by burlesque dancer Thelma Todd. At first,...
Cast: Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Length: 60min
Based on a novel by Jack London, Burning Daylight was the first of Milton Sills' four 1928 vehicles. Sills stars as an Alaskan real estate speculator known to friends and foes alike as "Burning Daylight." After making a fortune in the Yukon, the hero...
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Betty Compson
Tags: Drama
Length: 86min
Based on the oft-filmed play by Kenyon Nicholson, The Barker represented the talking-picture debut of silent-screen favorite Milton Sills (the film itself is a part-talkie, containing 38 minutes' worth of dialogue). Sills is cast as Nifty Miller,...
The Valley of the Giants (1927)
Cast: Doris Kenyon
Length: 65min
Valley of the Giants is about the struggle between the evil Pennington (Charles Sellon), owner of a local railroad and Bruce Cardigan (Milton Sills), whose family owns a lumber mill. Pennington wants control of the Cardigan possessions, so he cuts off...
Cast: Edward Peil Sr.
Length: 59min
Based on the George W. Sutton Jr. story ~Dawn of My Tomorrow, Framed turned out to be another winner for box-office "reliable" Milton Sills. The story begins with the court-martial of military officer Raoul Hilaire (Sills); thanks to a series of...
Cast: Mary Astor
Length: 6rlmin
Milton Sills once again thrilled his legions of female fans in The Sea Tiger. This time, Sills is cast as Julian Ramos, a fisherman in the Canary Islands. As the guardian of his hotheaded younger brother Charles (Larry Kent), Julian regards it as his...
Length: 73min
"Hard Boiled" Haggerty (Milton Sills) is a flight lieutenant who uses German planes for target practice during WWI. For all his bravery in the air, Haggerty is something of a clod on solid ground. Thus, when he gets mixed up with a pair of twin...
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