Ray Milland Project

Ray Milland is an Oscar-winning actor who worked from the late 1920s to the early 1980s. A contract player for Paramount, he was forced to take the lead role in The Lost Weekend because of turning down a role in another film. The one he turned down failed, and his punishment earned him his Oscar. In his career he’s been the male lead in urbane romantic comedies, a sophisticated villain, and a tyrannical father. He’s also had to deal with the occasional chimpanzee.

My intent is to honor the memory of this great actor by reviewing everything obtainable.

1920s

The Flying Scotsman (1929)

1940s

The Uninvited (1944)
Ray is a music critic who buys a house, complete with furnishings and ghosts.

1970s

The House in Nightmare Park (1973)
Ray is the 2nd oldest sibling in a house where inheritance is deadly silly business.

Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
Ray is a wealthy industrialist seeking to exploit the powers of two orphans to generate even more wealth.

1980s

The Attic (1980)
Ray is one hellacious father in this bizarre librarian drama.

Cave-In! (1983)
Ray is a manipulative father who is caught in the cave-in while searching for evidence of prehistoric habitation.

The Sea Serpent (1984)
Ray is a marine biologist who joins in the hunt for a giant sea serpent threatening the coast of the Iberian Peninsula.