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John Miljan

John Miljan

John Miljan (November 9, 1892 – January 24, 1960) was an American actor. He appeared in 201 films between 1924 and 1958. He was the tall, smooth-talking villain in Hollywood films for almost four decades, beginning in 1923.

Miljan made his first sound film in 1927 in the promotional trailer for The Jazz Singer, inviting audiences to see the upcoming landmark film. In later years he played imposing, authoritative parts such as high-ranking executives and military officers. He is best remembered as General Custer in Cecil B. De Mille's film The Plainsman.

Miljan died from cancer in Hollywood in 1960, aged 67. He was married to Victoire Lowe and adopted her two sons from her first marriage to actor Creighton Hale.

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Movies Starring John Miljan (113)

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon ...

The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958)

Three Indians were brutally murdered by a gang of hooded outlaws. Each one possessed a silver medallion, which were sections cut off from a large silver plaque which served as a treasure map to a secret location where a large amount of gold is reputedly st ...

Apache Warrior (1957)

An Apache brave vows revenge when he feels betrayed by the U.S. Army. ...

The Ten Commandments (1956)

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people. ...

Johnny Moccasin (1956)

Johnny Moccasin (1956)

Johnny Moccasin a white teenage boy is raised by an Indian tribe after his parents are killed in a wagon train massacre. ...

The Wild Dakotas (1956)

When Aaron Baring signs on as wagon master for a group of settlers headed to Montana's Powder River Valley, his dictatorial style soon creates problems. When the settlers reach their destination, Baring unwisely declares war on the local Indians. When savv ...

Run for Cover (1955)

An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town. ...

Pirates of Tripoli (1955)

A pirate tries to help a deposed Arabian princess reclaim her throne. ...

Bonzo Goes to College (1952)

When Bonzo turns out to be the answer to the football teams troubles, the only solution is to enroll him into a college. ...

Camera Sleuth (1951)

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we see how real-life investigator Jo Goggin used a motion picture surveillance camera to gather evidence and disprove a fraudulent insurance claim. ...

M (1951)

Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible. ...

Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)

Fugitive Chris Hale starts over in a small Midwestern town in Ohio, where he befriends Elaine Corelli, a kind-hearted heiress left disabled after a skiing accident. As love blossoms, Hale vows to change his ways, but escaping his past may mean one last job ...

Mule Train (1950)

A prospector discovers natural cement and suggests it should be used for a new dam. But this is the last thing the badmen of Trail End want, as they have a monopoly of the wagons needed to haul rocks to the site. A pretty sheriff notwithstanding, it's a jo ...

Mrs. Mike (1949)

This film is based on the novel, Mrs. Mike, which is based on the real life woman, Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan. A Boston teenager is sent to live with her uncle in frontier Canada because of her fragile health. She eventually falls in love with one of the few ...

Samson and Delilah (1949)

When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret. ...

Stampede (1949)

In 1887 Arizona, in the context of the settler-vs-cattleman struggle, two rancher brothers fall in-love with the same settler girl while crooked businessmen try to swindle both sides. ...

Adventure in Baltimore (1949)

Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do not approve. ...

Perilous Waters (1948)

Because of his virulent crusade against gambling, Dana Ferris has been targeted for extermination by the Mob, and Willie Hunter is the hit man who's been hired to do the job. ...

The Flame (1947)

George McAllister, the black sheep of a wealthy family who has squandered his share of the family inheritance, lives in constant jealousy, hatred and resentment of his half-brother Barry, who has been supporting him. George gets his girlfriend, Carlotta Du ...

That's My Man (1947)

A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before. ...

Queen of the Amazons (1947)

Jean Preston is determined to find her fiancée, Greg Jones, who went on a safari and didn't come back when expected. She travels to Akbar, India with Greg's father, Colonel Jones, Wayne Monroe and the Professor. She asks about Jones at the front desk of t ...

Sinbad the Sailor (1947)

Daredevil sailor Sinbad embarks on a voyage across the Seven Seas to find the lost riches of Alexander the Great. His first stop is the port of Basra, where his ship is seized and scheduled for auction. In his attempt to win it back, he befriends beautiful ...

The Killers (1946)

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. A ...

White Tie and Tails (1946)

When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involved with an heiress. ...

The Last Crooked Mile (1946)

A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow. ...

Lost City of the Jungle (1946)

A movie serial in 13 chapters, and Lionel Atwill's final film: Following the end of WWII, war-monger Sir Eric Hazarias sets the wheel in motion for WWIII. His search for Meteorium 245, the only practical defence against the atomic bomb, leads him to mythi ...

Wildfire (1945)

Fanning has his men rustle horses and then blame it on a wild horse named Wildfire. Happy and Alkali arrive and immediately get into trouble with Fanning and his men. When Alkali is shot, Happy catches the outlaws but the Judge not only releases them, he d ...

Back to Bataan (1945)

An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines. ...

It's in the Bag! (1945)

The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in. ...

I Accuse My Parents (1944)

Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the ...

The Merry Monahans (1944)

The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get himself and his family blacklisted from every major vaude house in the country. Though Pete's kids Jimmy and Pats ...

Bride by Mistake (1944)

The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of ...

The Fallen Sparrow (1943)

Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investig ...

Submarine Alert (1943)

Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to c ...

Bombardier (1943)

A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with ...

The Boss of Big Town (1942)

Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for character actors who aspired to occasional leading roles. In Boss of Big Town, veteran supporting player John Litel is top-billed as crus ...

Criminal Investigator (1942)

A reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire. While digging in to the mysterious murder of a showgirl (Vivian Wilcox), intrepid reporter Bob Martin (Robert Lowery) uncovers a connection between that case and another ...

The Devil with Hitler (1942)

Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good dee ...

Scattergood Survives a Murder (1942)

Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery. ...

The Big Street (1942)

Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him. ...

North of the Rockies (1942)

Morgan and his gang are smuggling furs across the border. Both the Mounties on the Canadian side and Tex Martin on the American side are after them. When Morgan sets up Tex to be found with furs, Mountie Bill arrests him. But he lets him go hoping he will ...

Obliging Young Lady (1942)

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce. ...

Riot Squad (1941)

Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang. ...

The Deadly Game (1941)

A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington's deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on...as the FBI hunts the nation's invisble foes! ...

Forced Landing (1941)

On faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military officer intent on sabotaging a local fort. ...

Double Cross (1941)

A disgraced cop aims to reclaim his honor by nailing a corrupt crime boss. ...

The Cowboy and the Blonde (1941)

A western rodeo rider is cast in a starring role in a new Hollywood film, but his temperamental and spoiled leading lady proves difficult to tame. ...

The Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940)

With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam. ...

Young Bill Hickok (1940)

Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close. ...

New Moon (1940)

A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana. ...

Queen of the Mob (1940)

Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns. ...

Women Without Names (1940)

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. ...

Emergency Squad (1940)

Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunn ...

Fast and Furious (1939)

Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he ha ...

Juarez (1939)

The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy. ...

Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939)

Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner. ...

The Oklahoma Kid (1939)

McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for givin ...

Pardon Our Nerve (1939)

Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career. ...

Ride a Crooked Mile (1938)

The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and helping his father escape from prison. ...

If I Were King (1938)

King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on ...

Border G-Man (1938)

A federal agent goes undercover in order to capture a gang that's been smuggling munitions and horses near the Texas border. ...

Miracle Money (1938)

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer. ...

Man-Proof (1938)

A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman. ...

Arizona Mahoney (1936)

When Sue Bixby becomes his new boss, stagecoach robber Talbot reforms and goes after her rustled cattle. ...

The Plainsman (1936)

Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner. ...

North of Nome (1936)

John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island in the Bering Sea that is owned by a corporation. During a fierce sea-storm, Raglan rescues the passengers of a floundering ship, which includes the owner ...

The Gentleman from Louisiana (1936)

In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals. ...

Private Number (1936)

Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good. ...

Sutter's Gold (1936)

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush. ...

Murder at Glen Athol (1936)

A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde ...

3 Kids and a Queen (1935)

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, ...

Under the Pampas Moon (1935)

Cesare Campo is a hard-riding and hard-loving Argentine gaucho. Yvonne LaMarr is a famous Parisian singer on her way to play an engagement in a Buenos Aires cabaret. THe plane she is flying in is forced to land on the Pampas. Campo and his riders take the ...

Mississippi (1935)

A young pacifist, after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally ki ...

Charlie Chan in Paris (1935)

Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Y ...

The Ghost Walks (1934)

A ghostly and deadly dinner party, which at first turns out to be an elaborate staging of a new play for the benefit of a Broadway producer, becomes a true mystery when the players start to go missing. ...

Tomorrow's Youth (1934)

A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy. ...

Belle of the Nineties (1934)

Nightclub entertainer Ruby Carter moves from St. Louis to New Orleans to escape Tiger Kid. At Ace Lamont's club, she gains fame but faces drama with Ace's ex Molly. A jewel theft and fixed fight lead to confrontations. ...

Young and Beautiful (1934)

Bob Preston, publicity man for Superba Pictures, uses his publicity skills in an attempt to make this fiancée June Dale the most famous movie star in the world. But in doing so, he forgets that women want to be attended to for themselves, not as objects o ...

Unknown Blonde (1934)

An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter. ...

The Line-Up (1934)

Bob Curtis (William Gargan), the youngest member of the New York City plain-clothes squad, is assigned to help Detective-Sergeant Doyle (Paul Hurst) uncover the people behind a number of fur robberies. Peggy Arnold (Marian Nixon), a beautiful girl, comes u ...

Whirlpool (1934)

An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists. ...

The Poor Rich (1934)

Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced ...

Madame Spy (1934)

Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigned to spy on him. When he is told to uncover a leak, he vows revenge on his wife. ...

The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)

Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the truth and save her own life, if only it would not damage the lives, careers and reputations of those whom she ...

King for a Night (1933)

A cocky prizefighter on his way to the bigtime in New York comes crashing down when his sister is involved in a murder and he takes the blame. ...

Twin Husbands (1933)

The wife of a businessman and his secretary attempt to trick her husband's double into impersonating him so they can get their hands on what remains of his wealth. ...

The Mad Game (1933)

Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the judge who sent Carson to prison, he is paroled to help in the capture. ...

The Way to Love (1933)

Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Madeleine, who works at a circus. ...

Blind Adventure (1933)

Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they try to unravel the mystery, enlisting the aid of a cat burglar named Holmes, who they bump into along the wa ...

The Nuisance (1933)

Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized. ...

What! No Beer? (1933)

When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters. ...

Whistling in the Dark (1933)

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder. ...

Flesh (1932)

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters. ...

Prosperity (1932)

Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry. ...

The Kid from Spain (1932)

Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl's dormitory when he was drunk. Per chance Eddie gets mixed up in a bank robbery and is forced to drive the robbers to safety. To get rid of him they force hi ...

Unashamed (1932)

A debutante's (Helen Twelvetrees) brother (Robert Young) stands trial for killing her no-good lover. ...

Night Court (1932)

A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor. ...

The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)

A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity. ...

The Wet Parade (1932)

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family. ...

Are You Listening? (1932)

WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and sponsors smiling. But one sponsor, a producer of plumbing supplies, isn't happy. So WBLA scriptwriter Bill Grimes ...

Arsène Lupin (1932)

A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris. He even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon ...

The Beast of the City (1932)

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his police detective brother Ed to watch over Daisy who is associated with Belmonte but things don't go as planned. ...

Hell Divers (1932)

The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land. ...

Emma (1932)

After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father. ...

West of Broadway (1931)

A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he's just met after a night of drinking and partying. ...

Possessed (1931)

Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer, can make her dreams come true, but, there is only one problem; he will give her everything except a marriag ...

Susan Lenox (1931)

A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer. ...

Son of India (1931)

An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude. ...

Iron Man (1931)

Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis. ...

The Secret Six (1931)

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy, and dominates the city f ...

Gentleman's Fate (1931)

A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him. ...

Politics (1931)

A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town. ...

Inspiration (1931)

Yvonne is a beautiful model who loves frequenting the Parisian bohemian life, because she loves hobnobbing with artists. ...

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