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Robert Milasch(1885-1954)

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Robert Milasch
At six and a half feet tall, Robert Emmet Milasch might have made a great circus performer. In fact, early in his career, that's exactly what he was. Born April 18, 1885, in New York City, Milasch ran away as a youngster and joined a circus, becoming a contortionist. He then joined another circus which toured South Africa. When he joined his last circus, in England, he performed as a clown. Returning to the United States when he was about fifteen years old, he got a job with the Gaumont Film Company, earning a few dollars a day. He then joined the Edison Company. Some sources claim his first film was "Babes in a Barrel," a 300-foot short produced by Edison around 1900. He was paid three dollars to appear as a brakeman and a train robber in the famous 1903 Edison film The Great Train Robbery (1903). In the early days of films, Milasch would write scenarios, erect sets, handle props, and even cast the parts. Often he would find extras in neighborhood saloons, offering customers five dollars for a day's work. He appeared in the first talkie, entitled "The Chimes of Normandie." The dialog was recorded on cylinders and played on a phonograph behind the movie screen. In 1912, he began filming a semi-documentary entitled "The Great Diamond Mystery," based upon a real diamond theft in Europe. His camera crew followed the police every time there was a new lead. Apparently the film was never completed. In 1913, while filming the two-reel short Hard Cash (1913), produced by the Edison Company, Milasch escaped serious injury. He was on a ship's mast during a fire scene, and his shoes and socks were scorched from the flames. Milasch was able to stay on the mast until the scene was over. Years later, Director Henry King offered him a role in Tol'able David (1921). Milasch was already committed to something else, but he had a friend who looked a lot like him and told King about him. The friend's name was Ernest Torrence, who got the part, and also a career start. Milasch had an extensive filmography, and claimed he had appeared in about 3000 films. He also claimed he had appeared in three versions of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame": the 1939 Charles Laughton version, the 1923 Lon Chaney version, and the 1917 version entitled The Darling of Paris (1917), which featured Theda Bara as the gypsy Esmeralda. He worked steadily into the early 1950s, in uncredited roles. After retiring from the screen, he ran a gift shop in Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Milasch died on November 14, 1954, at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in Los Angeles. He was married twice, and was survived by a son named Wally.
BornApril 18, 1885
DiedNovember 14, 1954(69)
BornApril 18, 1885
DiedNovember 14, 1954(69)
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Carter DeHaven and Robert Milasch in Borrowed Plumes (1916)
Octavia Handworth and Robert Milasch in The Moonshiner's Last Stand (1913)
Art Dillard, Bill Elliott, Bud Geary, George 'Gabby' Hayes, and Robert Milasch in Mojave Firebrand (1944)
Marie Eline, Robert Milasch, David Thompson, and May Carr in The Star of the Side Show (1912)
Mignon Anderson and Robert Milasch in The Star of the Side Show (1912)
Robert Milasch
Carter DeHaven and Robert Milasch in Timothy Dobbs, That's Me (1916)
Jack Hoxie, Robert Milasch, and Scout in Grinning Guns (1927)
William Courtright, Cyril Chadwick, Richard Cummings, George Fawcett, Alec B. Francis, Robert Milasch, and James Neill in Thank You (1925)

Known for:

J. Warren Kerrigan in Captain Blood (1924)
Captain Blood
6.3
  • Kent(as Robert Milash)
  • 1924
Carter DeHaven and Robert Milasch in Timothy Dobbs, That's Me (1916)
Timothy Dobbs, That's Me
  • Jeff Jenkins
  • 1916
Jack Hoxie and Scout in Grinning Guns (1927)
Grinning Guns
  • Buckaroo Bill
  • 1927
Montagu Love and Carmel Myers in The Lion and the Lamb (1931)
The Lion and the Lamb
  • Lem
  • 1931

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  • Randolph Scott and Janis Carter in Santa Fe (1951)
    Santa Fe
    • Bartender (uncredited)
    • 1951
  • David Wayne in M (1951)
    M
    • Man in Mob (uncredited)
    • 1951
  • Will Geer, Helena Carter, John Emery, and Donald O'Connor in Double Crossbones (1951)
    Double Crossbones
    • Tavern Patron (uncredited)
    • 1951
  • Maureen O'Hara and Macdonald Carey in Comanche Territory (1950)
    Comanche Territory
    • Townsman (uncredited)
    • 1950
  • Yvonne De Carlo and Philip Friend in Buccaneer's Girl (1950)
    Buccaneer's Girl
    • Friend (uncredited)
    • 1950
  • Shelley Winters and Macdonald Carey in South Sea Sinner (1950)
    South Sea Sinner
    • Bar Customer (uncredited)
    • 1950
  • Randolph Scott and Jane Nigh in Fighting Man of the Plains (1949)
    Fighting Man of the Plains
    • Townsman (uncredited)
    • 1949
  • Yvonne De Carlo, Charles Coburn, and John Russell in The Gal Who Took the West (1949)
    The Gal Who Took the West
    • Barfly (uncredited)
    • 1949
  • Yvonne De Carlo and Howard Duff in Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949)
    Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
    • Townsman (uncredited)
    • 1949
  • Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, and Richard Conte in House of Strangers (1949)
    House of Strangers
    • Chess Player (uncredited)
    • 1949
  • Sterling Holloway, Hugh Herbert, Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, El Brendel, Porter Hall, and Rudy Vallee in The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)
    The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
    • Train Passenger (uncredited)
    • 1949
  • Randolph Scott, Nancy Olson, and Jane Wyatt in Canadian Pacific (1949)
    Canadian Pacific
    • Railroad Worker (uncredited)
    • 1949
  • William Holden, William Bendix, Macdonald Carey, and Mona Freeman in Streets of Laredo (1949)
    Streets of Laredo
    • Barfly (uncredited)
    • 1949
  • Dorothy Malone, Joel McCrea, Zachary Scott, and Alexis Smith in South of St. Louis (1949)
    South of St. Louis
    • Barfly (uncredited)
    • 1949
  • Marjorie Reynolds and Barry Sullivan in Badmen of Tombstone (1949)
    Badmen of Tombstone
    • Townsman (uncredited)
    • 1949

Personal details

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  • Alternative names
    • Robert Milach
  • Height
    • 6′ 6″ (1.98 m)
  • Born
    • April 18, 1885
    • New York City, New York, USA
  • Died
    • November 14, 1954
    • Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA(uremic poisoning)
  • Spouses
      Virginia RoseOctober 9, 1936 - April 10, 1942 (her death)

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    Early in 1913, Thomas Edison experimented with "Edison Talking Pictures" in which synchronized voices and sound effects were recorded on a cylinder disc played simultaneously with the film. Despite the novelty appeal, much promotion, and high hopes, the system was doomed from the beginning because of the primitive acoustical sound recording technique, the lack of amplification, and the inevitable synchronization problems. Robert Milasch appeared in at least two of these, 'Chimes of Normandy.' which featured scenes and sounds from the New York City stage success, of which no further documentation has yet been found, and also in _Nursery Favorites (1913)_, which not only survives, but has been restored and is presently accessible on YouTube. In latter day interviews, Milasch claimed the actors performed, and attempted to synchronize their words with the pre-recorded cylinders, played over an acoustical horn placed above the set.

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