Carl Miller (actor)

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Carl Miller in The Kid (1921)

Carl Miller , also known as Carlton Miller (born August 9, 1893 in Wichita County , Texas , † January 22, 1979 in Honolulu , Hawaii ) was an American actor.

life and career

Carl Miller made his film debut in 1917. In the early years of his career he played the leading roles in a western film series with Marie Walcamp . In 1921 Charles Chaplin Miller cast the role of the father of Jackie Coogan in his film The Kid . While the father was a major supporting role in the original version of the film, Chaplin cut all but one of the father's scenes in a new version from 1971. Miller impersonated the male lead in the drama The Nights of a Beautiful Woman in 1923, also directed by Chaplin . In the following years he played major supporting or leading roles, among others alongside Monte Blue and Marie Prevost . After the dawn of the sound film era in the late 1920s, Miller's roles soon shrank and he increasingly withdrew from the film business. His last film was The Daredevil of Boston (1942) with John Wayne , where he had a small supporting role as a saloon guest.

All that is known about the further course of his life is that he died in Hawaii in 1979 at the age of 85.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1918: The Doctor and the Woman
  • 1921: The Kid
  • 1923: The A Woman (A Woman of Paris)
  • 1924: The Lover of Camille
  • 1924: Die kleine Kanaille (The Dark Swan)
  • 1925: The Red Kimona
  • 1926: Raggedy Rose
  • 1928: Emil and Schlehmil among ogres (Why Sailors Go Wrong)
  • 1931: Traveling Husbands
  • 1931: Honor of the Family
  • 1933: The Phantom Broadcast
  • 1936: The Plainsman (The Plainsman)
  • 1942: The Daredevil of Boston (In Old California)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The Boston Daredevil" on the Internet Movie Database
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miller, Carlton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Wichita County , Texas
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1979
Place of death Honolulu , Hawaii