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Billy Wilder
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...returned to cowrite The Lost Weekend, which starred Ray Milland as an alcoholic who hits bottom. For this film, Wilder...Screenplay. The film also was named Best Picture and Milland Best Actor. However, around this time Wilder's marriage...
Ghosts in the Movies
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained ...serious study of haunting phenomena. Roderick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey) move into a home...years. Soon, they discover that the house is haunted. Milland and Hussey portray two ordinary, but intelligent and...

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Milland, Ray
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers MILLAND, Ray Born: Reginald Truscott-Jones in Neath...early career as Jack Mullane, then Raymond Milland. Education: Attended King's College...Meet Mr. McNutley, later renamed The Ray Milland Show, 1954–55; 1954—...
The Lost Weekend
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Miklos Rozsa, Guiseppe Verdi. Cast: Ray Milland (Don Birnam ); Jane Wyman (Helen...Awards: Oscars for Best Actor (Milland), Best Picture, Best Director...Winter 1945–46. Milland, Ray, "The Role I Liked Best...
Pan, Hermes
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...appear on screen performing his own dance steps—in Moon over Miami, My Gal Sal, and with Lana Turner and Ray Milland, in A Life of Her Own. He also was able to choreograph off the dance floor onto ice for Sonja Heine and in water for...
O'Hara, Maureen
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Negulesco) (as Adelaide Culver); A Woman's Secret (Ray) (as Marian Washburn); Father Was a Fullback (Stahl...Harrison); Lady Godiva (Lubin) (title role) 1956 Lisbon (Milland) (as Sylvia Merrill); Everything but the Truth (Hopper...
Van Cleef, Lee
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Fante); The Road to Denver (Kane) (as Pecos Larry); A Man Alone (Milland) (as Clantin); The Vanishing American (Kane) (as Jay Lord...malese ) (Dawson) (as Inspector Warren) 1986 Armed Response (Olen Ray) (as Burt Rot

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Ray Milland dies at 78; appeared in 196 movies
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/11/1986; 700+ words ; TORRANCE, Calif. Actor Ray Milland, best known for his Oscar-winning...Academy Award as best actor, Mr. Milland played a dipsomaniac young writer...shooting, a purportedly drunk Mr. Milland was staggering along Third Avenue...
The first Welshman to win an Oscar; 1945: Actor Ray Milland, from Neath, reached the pinnacle of his career in 'The Lost Weekend'.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 1/1/2002; 700+ words ; Byline: RHODRI OWEN RAY Milland's part in the 1945 Billy...correspondents were convinced that Milland, or someone close to him...CAPTION(S): ABOVE: Ray Milland signs an autograph...visit to Neath BELOW: Ray Milland in later life
Movie idol who drank his way to an Oscar; He quit Wales to conquer Hollywood - but Ray Milland never forgot his roots.(News)
Newspaper article from: Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales); 12/16/2001; 700+ words ; ...50-year film career, movie star Ray Milland made more than 150 films, including...toast of Tinseltown. . . WHEN Ray Milland - or Reginald Alfred John Truscott...all on travelling the world. But Milland never made any secret of his Welsh...
Letter: Ray Milland.(Letters)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 4/8/2008; 326 words ; ...Byline: DOUGLAS DAVIES SIR - Your recent Retro Report on Ray Milland stated that he was born in 1908, but according to a...He changed his name from Reginald Truscott-Jones to Milland after an area of Neath known as the Mill Land, which...
Search to find Milland's Neath birthplace; RETRO REPORT.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 3/25/2008; 537 words ; ...memory of Oscar-winning Welsh actor Ray Milland may never materialise because councillors...sure which house he was born in. Milland, real name Reginald Truscott-Jones...exactly 50 years ago that the late Milland, one of Hollywood's suavest leading...
Bad guy Milland takes couple to 'River's Edge'; First season of 'Hulk' debuts.(WASHINGTON WEEKEND)(PHANTOM OF THE MOVIES)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 7/20/2006; 700+ words ; ...with the arrival of her slimy former partner Nardo (Ray Milland). Nardo zealously guards a suitcase crammed with a...abetted by three deft performances (especially from Mr. Milland, seen here at his meanest), tangy dialogue, and vivid...
Milland home sold for $3.5 million - as a tear-down
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/4/1988; 301 words ; The former home of the late actor Ray Milland, which is located on nearly an acre with 420 feet of frontage...the Loire Valley, said real estate agent Bruce Nelson. The Milland site is about six blocks from a mansion that sold earlier this...
A TRIBUTE TO RAY.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 3/12/1997; 218 words ; The Welsh roots of Hollywood star Ray Milland will be remembered today when a plaque in his memory is unveiled in his hometown of Neath, West Glamorgan. Milland attended Kings School in Cardiff before moving to the United States where his film career spanned 50 years.
PERE UBU PERFORMS A LIVE UNDERSCORE TO ROGER CORMAN'S 'X, THE MAN WITH THE X RAY EYES' AS PART OF UCLA LIVE'S FAR OUT HALLOWEEKEND, OCT. 29
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/22/2006; 700+ words ; ...classic "X, The Man with the X Ray Eyes," plus a concert set introducing...performing a live underscore to Ray Bradbury's "It Came from Outer...production, "X, The Man with the X Ray Eyes" (1963) stars Ray Milland in his favorite role as Dr. Xavier...
Obituary: Ray Russell
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/27/1999; ; 700+ words ; RAY RUSSELL specialised in the mid...bringing in real talent such as Ray Bradbury, Henry Slesar, Frederic...died, at 38, he looked 100). Ray Russell was born in 1924, served...Eyes (1963; a vehicle for Ray Milland at his most manic), for which...