Adolph Milar
Know for: Acting
Born: 1895-04-11
Place of birth: Davos, Switzerland
Also know as:
The Devil's Skipper (1928)
The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type, Belle Bennett plays a wronged...
Isle of Escape (1930)
On a South Sea island, Stella operates a hotel for her mother, who is constantly drunk on liquor smuggled by Shane, the principal trader and virtual...
Marriage in Transit (1925)
A gang of crooks led by Holden steals a government code, and Cyril Gordon, a Secret Service agent who bears a strong resemblance to the gang leader,...
Bulldog Drummond (1929)
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's...
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
In 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but George's owner prevents the wedding. A few years later,...
Wandering Papas (1926)
A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the...
Honeymoon Lane (1931)
Based on Dowling's 1925 stage vehicle of the same name, the story is set in motion when the king of the mythical European nation of Bulgravia visits...
Sons of Steel (1934)
Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curtis (Holmes Herbert) has put Ronald (William...
The Michigan Kid (1928)
The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to his hometown and impress the girl he loves. His...
The Savage Girl (1932)
An intoxicated millionaire commissions an expedition to Africa. A white jungle goddess falls in love with the millionaire's daring consort, incurring...
I'll Give a Million (1938)
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is...
The Medicine Man (1930)
The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.
Idiot's Delight (1939)
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Man About Town (1939)
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he...
Everything Happens at Night (1939)
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Rain or Shine (1930)
Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune...
My Friend the Devil (1922)
Silent romantic drama...
Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
The story is set in Cambodia in the years following WWI. An evil count has come into possession of the secret methods by which men can be transformed...
Pack Up Your Troubles (1939)
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
Bridal Suite (1939)
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
Call of the Flesh (1930)
A postulant falls in love with a flamboyant singer from a cafe next door to her convent.
Thunder in the Night (1935)
Officer Karl Torok's best friend, Count Alvinczy, is elected president of the Hungarian cabinet. Meanwhile, Alvinczy's wife, Madalaine, receives a...
Gateway (1938)
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in...
Barricade (1939)
In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
Escape (1940)
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess...
The Lady Has Plans (1942)
Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in...
So Ends Our Night (1941)
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
Clothes Make the Woman (1928)
A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanovs during...
Demon of the Sea (1931)
Ahab pursues a whale that chewed off a leg when his brother, vying with him for the hand of a minister's daughter, pushed him overboard. When he has...
Paris Calling (1941)
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi...
The Great Impersonation (1935)
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders...
East of Java (1935)
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
The Gateway of the Moon (1928)
John Griffith Wray silent South America romantic melodrama starring Dolores Del Rio, Walter Pidgeon, Anders Randolf, Lesle Fenton,...
Man Hunt (1941)
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is...
Reunion in France (1942)
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get...
Perils of Pauline (1933)
A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil...
Platinum Blonde (1931)
Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the...
Enemies of Women (1923)
The dashing but arrogant Prince Michael Fedor Lubimoff has to flee Tsarist Russia after falling into disgrace and settles in Monte Carlo, where he...