Ray Milland

Ray Milland

January 3, 1907 · 119 years old

Ray Milland (born Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones or Alfred Reginald Jones; 3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh actor and director. He is best remembered for his Academy Award–winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945), as well as for his performances in Dial M f…

Known For

40 titles
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Dial M for Murder

Dial M for Murder

1954 · 1h 45m · Movie

A London playboy plots the perfect murder of his rich, unfaithful wife.

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The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend

1945 · 1h 41m · Movie

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.

7.9
3
Love Story

Love Story

1970 · 1h 40m · Movie

A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.

6.9
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

1982 · 1h 28m · Movie

Film noir parody with a detective uncovering a sinister plot. Characters from classic noir films appear as scenes from various movies interjected into the story.

6.8
5
The Uninvited

The Uninvited

1944 · 1h 39m · Movie

A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.

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Escape to Witch Mountain

Escape to Witch Mountain

1975 · 1h 37m · Movie

Two mysterious orphan children have extraordinary powers and are chased by a scheming millionaire. But where do these kids really call home?

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7
The Big Clock

The Big Clock

1948 · 1h 35m · Movie

A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.

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The Last Tycoon

The Last Tycoon

1976 · 2h 3m · Movie

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.

6.2
9
Ministry of Fear

Ministry of Fear

1944 · 1h 26m · Movie

Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot and tries to stop it.

7.1
10
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

1963 · 1h 19m · Movie

An ambitious scientist invents an eye drop formula that grants him X-ray vision, but his new powers have disastrous consequences.

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11
Frogs

Frogs

1972 · 1h 31m · Movie

A group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles.

4.4
12
The Major and the Minor

The Major and the Minor

1942 · 1h 40m · Movie

A frustrated city girl disguises herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with a handsome Major.

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13
Beau Geste

Beau Geste

1939 · 1h 52m · Movie

Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire.

7.5
14
Easy Living

Easy Living

1937 · 1h 28m · Movie

When a wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off a roof and it lands on the head of a stenographer, everyone assumes she is his mistress and has access to his millions.

7.5
15
Reap the Wild Wind

Reap the Wild Wind

1942 · 2h 3m · Movie

Florida ship salvager Loxi falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor.

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16
Aces High

Aces High

1976 · 1h 54m · Movie

In World War I, the high casualty rate amongst the rookie pilots of the Royal Flying Corps puts an enormous strain on the survivors.

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17
The Thing with Two Heads

The Thing with Two Heads

1972 · 1h 31m · Movie

Doctors are forced to transplant the head of terminally ill, arthritic racist surgeon Maxwell Kirshner onto the body of African American Death Row inmate Jack Moss because there is no other donor.

4.5
18
The Uncanny

The Uncanny

1977 · 1h 29m · Movie

Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.

5.7
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Piccadilly

Piccadilly

1929 · 1h 32m · Movie

A young Chinese woman working in the kitchen at a London dance club is given the chance to become the club's main act, which leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love, and murder.

7.1
20
Alias Nick Beal

Alias Nick Beal

1949 · 1h 33m · Movie

A district attorney rises to political success and the governorship but loses his sense of morality once he starts associating with the shadowy and perhaps diabolical Nick Beal.

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21
A Life of Her Own

A Life of Her Own

1950 · 1h 48m · Movie

A girl from Kansas arrives in New York City to become a model. Her further success brings her before moral choice.

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22
Three Smart Girls

Three Smart Girls

1936 · 1h 24m · Movie

Three sisters scheme to reunite their divorced parents before their wealthy father marries a conniving gold digger.

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23
The Pyjama Girl Case

The Pyjama Girl Case

1977 · 1h 42m · Movie

In Australia, a retired police inspector is called to duty to solve the murder case of a young woman whose partially-burned body has been found on the beach.

6.0
24
The River's Edge

The River's Edge

1957 · 1h 27m · Movie

A murderous thief on the run with stolen loot forces a poor rancher to guide him across the desert into Mexico. Accompanying them is the rancher's wife, who happens to be the killer's former girlfriend.

6.4
25
The Man Who Played God

The Man Who Played God

1932 · 1h 20m · Movie

After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.

6.8
26
A Man Alone

A Man Alone

1955 · 1h 36m · Movie

A gunfighter's main hope lies in the trust of a beautiful woman who hides him out when he is wrongly suspected of a stagecoach massacre.

6.4
27
California

California

1947 · 1h 37m · Movie

Epic account of how California became a state, featuring a wagon train, the Gold Rush, a wicked saloon queen, and an evil profiteer.

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28
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

1955 · 1h 49m · Movie

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is the true story of Evelyn Nesbit (Dame Joan Collins), a beautiful showgirl caught in a love triangle with elderly architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and eccentric young millionaire Harry K. T...

6.5
29
Oliver's Story

Oliver's Story

1978 · 1h 31m · Movie

In this sequel to Love Story (1970), grieving Oliver is being pressured by his in-laws to move on and take part in the family business. He meets a pretty heiress and they start dating, but memories of Jennie come rushing back.

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30
Circle of Danger

Circle of Danger

1951 · 1h 26m · Movie

In the 1950s, an American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid in Nazi-occupied France.

6.5
31
Arise, My Love

Arise, My Love

1940 · 1h 50m · Movie

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

6.8
32
So Evil My Love

So Evil My Love

1948 · 1h 52m · Movie

Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. After Olivia opens a lodging house, Mark becomes her lodger then her lover. Olivia falls so compl...

6.9
33
The Gilded Lily

The Gilded Lily

1935 · 1h 20m · Movie

A stenographer becomes a famed entertainer and is courted by an English nobleman and an informal American reporter.

6.8
34
Lisbon

Lisbon

1956 · 1h 30m · Movie

High stakes battle of wits and morals between gentlemen crooks, set in beautiful Portugal. A smuggler is hired to kidnap the rich husband of an American woman who's just arrived in Lisbon.

5.9
35
Next Time We Love

Next Time We Love

1936 · 1h 27m · Movie

A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.

6.4
36
Skylark

Skylark

1941 · 1h 32m · Movie

As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to decide what to do, she meets a handsome ...

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