List of the best Ray Milland movies: Dial M for Murder(1954), The Lost Weekend(1945), The Big Clock(1948), Ministry of Fear(1944), French Without Tears(1940), The Man With the X-Ray Eyes(1963), So Evil My Love(1948), Night Into Morning(1951), Rhubarb(1951), Golden Earrings(1947), Reap the Wild Wind(1942), The River's Edge(1957) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1954
105 Minutes
Ray Milland Grace Kelly Bob Cummings John Williams Anthony Dawson Leo Britt Patrick Allen George Leigh George Alderson Robin Hughes
tennis player wife writer criminal detective intellectual frightening suspenseful thrilling london apartment bar courtroom botched murder greed affair jealousy murphy's law dangerous job mystery
A former tennis player tries to arrange his wife's murder after learning of her affair.
Drama
USA
1945
101 Minutes
Ray Milland Jane Wyman Howard da Silva Phillip Terry Doris Dowling Frank Faylen Mary Young Anita Sharp-Bolster Lillian Fontaine Lewis Russell Frank Orth
writer alcoholic brother girlfriend bartender dark bleak intense new york city bar hotel opera house hospital addiction alcoholism lying self-destruction love wretched excess temptation
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
Crime, Drama
USA
1948
95 Minutes
George Stroud
Ray Milland Charles Laughton Maureen O'Sullivan George Macready Rita Johnson Elsa Lanchester Harold Vermilyea Dan Tobin Harry Morgan Richard Webb Tad Van Brunt
editor boss wife mistress henchman reporter spirited gripping cheeky new york city apartment bar office elevator antique shop disillusionment corporate culture journalism honeymoon cover-up
A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
85 Minutes
Stephen Neale
Ray Milland Marjorie Reynolds Carl Esmond Hillary Brooke Percy Waram Dan Duryea Alan Napier Erskine Sanford Thomas Louden Aminta Dyne Rita Johnson
spy patient nazi detective psychic girl chilling dark crafty mental institution london fair train espionage world war ii paranoia escape 1940s
Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot, and tries to stop it.
Romance
UK
1940
67 Minutes
Alan Howard
Ray Milland Ellen Drew Guy Middleton Janine Darcey Roland Culver David Tree Jim Gerald Kenneth Morgan Margaret Yarde Toni Gable
The love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language cramming school in the south of France. Diana, the sister of one of the boys, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates.
Sci-Fi
UK|USA
1963
79 Minutes
Ray Milland Diana Van der Vlis Harold J. Stone John Hoyt Don Rickles Morris Ankrum Lorie Summers Dick Miller Kathryn Hart Jonathan Haze John Dierkes
scientist friend colleague pastor murderer creepy dark laboratory carnival church casino science experiments alienation madness sight discovery transformation fall 1960s
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.
Mystery & Thriller
USA|UK
1948
112 Minutes
Ray Milland Ann Todd Geraldine Fitzgerald Moira Lister Raymond Lovell Roderick Lovell Muriel Aked Finlay Currie Ivor Barnard Hugh Griffith Gus Le Fuevre
widow young woman passenger lodger con artist old friend dark intricate ship london family home apartment schemes blackmail investigation murder love triangle crime fall transformation
Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. When Olivia opens a lodging house Mark becomes her ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1951
86 Minutes
Philip Ainley
professor friend widow student girlfriend wife moving solemn college hotel berkeley, calif. grief alcoholism suicide attempt loss salvation fall wretched excess 1950s
Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.
Comedy
USA
1951
95 Minutes
Eric Yeager
Ray Milland Jan Sterling Gene Lockhart William Frawley Elsie Holmes Taylor Holmes Willard Waterman Henry Slate James Griffith Jim Hayward Donald MacBride
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1947
95 Minutes
Col. Ralph Denistoun
Ray Milland Marlene Dietrich Murvyn Vye Bruce Lester Dennis Hoey Reinhold Schünzel Ivan Triesault Hermine Sterler Eric Feldary Gisela Werbiseck Larry Simms
On the eve of WW2, a British spy goes to Germany to obtain a secret poison-gas formula from a scientist but things go awry and he is saved by a beautiful nomadic gypsy woman.
Adventure
USA
1942
124 Minutes
Stephen "Steve" Tolliver
Ray Milland John Wayne Paulette Goddard Raymond Massey Robert Preston Susan Hayward Charles Bickford Hedda Hopper Louise Beavers Martha O'Driscoll Lynne Overman
ship captain shipwreck survivor lawyer villain spirited atlantic ocean north carolina florida keys ship office shipwreck shipping insurance love triangle piracy rivalry love adventure 1840s
Florida ship salvager, Loxi, falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor, and eventually leads to tragedy.
Crime, Drama
USA
1957
87 Minutes
Ray Milland Anthony Quinn Debra Paget Harry Carey Jr. Chubby Johnson Byron Foulger Frank Gerstle
husband wife criminal police officer ex-convict offbeat sultry tense ranch town car hotel indian reservation cliff betrayal deception fugitives husband/wife relationship money murder
A troubled sheriff, a failure at everything in his life, tries to redeem himself by extraditing a popular gunfighter from Mexico to stand trial for murder.
Sci-Fi
USA
1962
95 Minutes
Director
Ray Milland Jean Hagen Frankie Avalon Mary Mitchel Joan Freeman Richard Bakalyan Rex Holman Richard Garland
father mother teen boy teen girl storekeeper chilling dark tense los angeles car vacation home store nuclear attack survival family uncertainty lawlessness mass hysteria fall transformation
A family leaves L.A. for a camping trip - just before a nuclear bomb destroys the city. As the city descends into chaos, the father must fight to keep his family alive.
Adventure
USA
1948
83 Minutes
Maj. Robert Lawson
attorney nazi girlfriend major general witness suspenseful melodramatic germany hospital prison apartment abandoned building nazis war crime investigation trial holocaust anti-semitism mystery
Former U.S. special prosecutor, Major Robert Lawson, begins to suspect that Nazi war criminal on death row, General Otto Stiegman, has been wrongfully convicted of leveling a French village along with all of its inhabitants in WWII.
Drama, History
USA
1955
109 Minutes
Stanford White
Ray Milland Joan Collins Farley Granger Luther Adler Cornelia Otis Skinner Glenda Farrell Frances Fuller Philip Reed Gale Robbins James Lorimer
railroad tycoon architect showgirl lawyer melodramatic chilling passionate shocking theater hotel jealousy murder love triangle rage love fall discovery 20th century
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is the true story of Evelyn Nesbit (Dame Joan Collins), a beautiful showgirl caught in a love triangle with elderly architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and eccentric young millionaire Harry K. Thaw (Farley Granger).
Western
USA
1955
96 Minutes
Director
Ray Milland Mary Murphy Ward Bond Raymond Burr Arthur Space Lee Van Cleef Alan Hale Jr. Douglas Spencer Thomas B. Henry Grandon Rhodes Martin Garralaga
gunslinger deputy sheriff daughter robber townsperson engaging tense small town wild west desert family home saloon murder robbery mistaken identity injustice pursuit quest 19th century
A gunfighter's main hope lies in the trust of a beautiful woman who hides him out when he is wrongly suspected of a stagecoach massacre.
Drama
UK
1951
86 Minutes
Clay Douglas
american brother soldier murderer woman intense emotional melodramatic brooding brutal great britain france united states world war ii death of brother truth confrontation survival love adventure
In the 1950s, an American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid in Nazi-occupied France.
Western
USA
1950
83 Minutes
Johnny Carter
Ray Milland Hedy Lamarr Macdonald Carey Mona Freeman Harry Carey Jr. Frank Faylen Hope Emerson Taylor Holmes Peggy Knudsen James Burke Percy Helton
marksman rebel miner ex-soldier brooding profound intense intricate gory thrilling mine canyon wilderness western films gambling romance adventure discovery rescue underdog
Johnny Carter, performing sharpshooter, is asked to help a beleaguered group of copper miners.
Drama
USA
1941
131 Minutes
Story follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps --- a wealthy playboy, a college jock and an auto mechanic. Love interest is supplied by a female ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1937
67 Minutes
Ray Milland Guy Standing Heather Angel Porter Hall Reginald Denny E.E. Clive Fay Holden Walter Kingsford P.J. Kelly Charles McNaughton Clyde Cook
bulldog beautiful woman valet suspenseful london scotland yard espionage mystery
Captain Drummond becomes a prisoner when he intents to protect a beautiful heiress of an espionage organization.
Mystery & Thriller
USA|Portugal
1956
90 Minutes
Director
Ray Milland Maureen O'Hara Claude Rains Yvonne Furneaux Francis Lederer Percy Marmont Jay Novello Edward Chapman
femme fatale smuggler prisoner husband wife mysterious man tense witty thrilling melodramatic lisbon, portugal boat prison port smuggling murder plot inheritance iron curtain hidden agenda mission
High stakes battle of wits and morals between gentlemen crooks, set in beautiful Portugal. A smuggler is hired to kidnap the rich husband of an American woman who's just arrived in Lisbon, Portugal.
Western
USA
1952
85 Minutes
Kern Shafter
Ray Milland Helena Carter Hugh Marlowe Forrest Tucker George Reeves Gertrude Michael
cavalry captain native american native american chief native american warrior rival army officer brash gutsy patriotic rousing tense montana battlefield dakota territory fort rivalry demotion battle of the little bighorn love interest love triangle
After violently attacking a fellow officer Lt. Edward Garnett, cavalry Captain Kern Shafter is court martialled. Later, he rejoins the army with Custer's regiment at Fort Lincoln, Dakota, becoming a sergeant, where he runs into his old foe.
Horror
USA
1973
93 Minutes
Harry Flexner
Ray Milland Broderick Crawford Elsa Lanchester Maurice Evans Shani Wallis John Carradine Louis Hayward Patric Knowles Mark W. Edwards Lisa Lu Steven Marlo
The murder of a Wax Museum proprietor and some other strange goings-on in the vicinity prompt a police investigator to determine whether the killer is one of the principles who wants to own... See full summary »
Horror
USA
1972
91 Minutes
Ray Milland Sam Elliott Joan Van Ark Adam Roarke Judy Pace Lynn Borden Mae Mercer David Gilliam Nicholas Cortland George Skaff
photographer chemical baron daughter son butler cook campy creepy outlandish everglades estate party pollution death animal attack survival environment escape revenge adventure
A group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles.
Horror
1962
81 Minutes
Ray Milland Hazel Court Richard Ney Heather Angel Alan Napier John Dierkes Dick Miller Brendan Dillon Clive Halliday
Based on Edgar Allan Poe's story about a cataleptic Englishman obsessed with the fear of being buried alive.
Drama
1956
88 Minutes
Joe DiMarco
Ray Milland Ernest Borgnine Frank Lovejoy Nina Foch Dean Jagger Virginia Christine Edward Andrews Frank Faylen Diane Jergens Warren Berlinger Andrew Duggan
government official lawyer judge naval officer wife suspect emotional solemn melodramatic courtroom house naval base suburbia cold war paranoia communism trial navy redemption underdog
A lawyer (Ray Milland) represents a Navy worker (Ernest Borgnine) who has been unjustly fired as a security risk.
Drama
1968
101 Minutes
Director
lawyer daughter judge neighbor intense emotional england courtroom household trial murder obsession grief investigation false accusations mystery discovery 1960s
A shaken barrister (Ray Milland) stands trial for supposedly avenging his daughter's hit-and-run death.
Comedy
1949
87 Minutes
Prof. Vernon K. Simpson, King Kelly
Ray Milland Jean Peters Paul Douglas Ed Begley Ted de Corsia Ray Collins Jessie Royce Landis Alan Hale Jr. Bill Murphy William E. Green Edward Keane
baseball pitcher baseball catcher chemist fiancée professor outlandish witty lighthearted st. louis chicago baseball field science gone awry baseball secret identity experiments serendipity sports transformation underdog love
A professor (Ray Milland) becomes a World Series pitcher with his secret formula for wood-repellent screwballs.
Adventure
USA
1939
114 Minutes
John Geste
Gary Cooper Ray Milland Robert Preston Brian Donlevy Susan Hayward J. Carrol Naish Albert Van Dekker Broderick Crawford Charles Barton James Stephenson Heather Thatcher
brother soldier sergeant mercenary suspenseful inspiring england desert robbery war escape mutiny money escape adventure rise fall rivalry 1930s
Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire.
Comedy
USA
1942
100 Minutes
Ginger Rogers Ray Milland Rita Johnson Robert Benchley Diana Lynn Edward Fielding Frank Thomas Jr. Raymond Roe Charles Smith Larry Nunn Billy Dawson
major woman fiancée father sister lighthearted cheery amusing winsome new york city iowa train school scams mistaken identity romance military escape transformation forbidden love
A frustrated city girl disguises herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with a handsome Major.
Drama
USA
1938
67 Minutes
Lieutenant Nemassy
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1934
79 Minutes
Warner Oland Ray Milland Mona Barrie Drue Leyton Douglas Walton Alan Mowbray George Barraud Paul England Madge Bellamy Walter Johnson Murray Kinnell
Charlie visits a wealthy country home in England. Suspects in the murder range from a housekeeper, to a stableman, to a lawyer.
Comedy
USA
1940
89 Minutes
Dr. Timothy Sterling
Loretta Young Ray Milland Gail Patrick Reginald Gardiner Edmund Gwenn Frank Sully Gordon Jones George Metaxa Charles Halton Joseph Eggenton Chester Clute
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
Romance
USA
1940
110 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Ray Milland Dennis O'Keefe Walter Abel Dick Purcell George Zucco Frank Puglia Esther Dale Paul Leyssac Ann Codee Stanley Logan
pilot journalist editor priest love interest lighthearted witty patriotic spain paris europe ocean liner prisoners of war journalism love world war ii career escape transformation 1930s
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Adventure
USA
1938
81 Minutes
Bob Mitchell
While searching the South Pacific for a missing aviator, Bob Mitchell and Jimmy Wallace are caught in a typhoon and crack up on an island, escaping unharmed with the aid of Tura, a ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1943
81 Minutes
Paulette Goddard Ray Milland Virginia Field Gladys George Cecil Kellaway William Bendix
Girl loses beauty contest, becomes a fortune teller.
Comedy
USA
1950
85 Minutes
dean professor father publicist love interest amusing madcap new england college academia publicity single life unlikely romance matchmaking love transformation 1950s
Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1936
85 Minutes
Christopher Powell is in Malaysia with his fiancée and her father, capturing wild animals. While out hunting, he is attacked by a tiger, and his native guides run away, leaving him for dead... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1952
89 Minutes
actress alcoholic married man sponsor wife brooding emotional melodramatic passionate spirited theater city affair alcoholics anonymous alcoholism acting love forbidden love fall 1950s
An actress becomes an alcoholic after being jilted. She is aided by an Alcoholics Anonymous member with whom she has an affair; however, he is married.
Comedy
USA
1937
70 Minutes
Miriam Hopkins Ray Milland Walter Abel Henry Stephenson Alec Craig Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Betty Philson Marianna Strebly Margaret Dumont Jean De Briac Ivan Lebedeff
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1950
108 Minutes
Steve Harleigh
Lana Turner Ray Milland Tom Ewell Louis Calhern Ann Dvorak Barry Sullivan Margaret Phillips Jean Hagen Phyllis Kirk Sara Haden Hermes Pan
model wealthy man wife executive lawyer melodramatic kansas new york city montana success forbidden love affair love fame forbidden love fall 1950s
A girl from Kansas arrives to New York City to become a model. Her further success brings her before moral choice.
Drama
USA
1938
106 Minutes
Scott Barnes
young boy friend pilot engineer love interest newspaper owner melodramatic patriotic heartwarming passionate kitty hawk, n.c. airport university europe air force base family home aviation technology world war i love triangle
Plot #1 is the love triangle between two guys and one girl as they grow into adults and affiliate themselves in the new aircraft industry. Plot #2 is aircraft evolution from the days of Wilbur and Orville Wright to just prior to WWII.
Western
USA
1946
97 Minutes
Jonathan Trumbo
Barbara Stanwyck Ray Milland Barry Fitzgerald George Coulouris Albert Van Dekker Anthony Quinn Frank Faylen Gavin Muir James Burke Edward Ciannelli Roman Bohnen
deserter poker player prospector saloon girl irishman landowner engaging melodramatic spirited gutsy california wagon train mining town saloon small town graveyard california gold rush self-sacrifice marriage of convenience mining
Epic account of how California became a state, featuring a wagon train, the Gold Rush, a wicked saloon queen, and an evil profiteer.
Drama
USA
1939
77 Minutes
Geoffrey Thompson
journalist reporter daughter professor amusing charming suspenseful switzerland journalism deception romance quest rivalry love 1930s
Two competing reporters fall in love with the daughter of a Nobel Prize winner living in hiding.
Romance
USA
1941
94 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Ray Milland Brian Aherne Binnie Barnes Walter Abel Grant Mitchell Mona Barrie Ernest Cossart James Rennie
As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1944
100 Minutes
Ginger Rogers Ray Milland Jon Hall Warner Baxter Barry Sullivan Mischa Auer Mary Philips Phyllis Brooks Edward Fielding Don Loper Mary Parker
editor bachelor psychiatrist friend fascinating emotional spectacular psychiatrist's office newsroom apartment psychiatry memory daydreaming advice romance fashion adventure love transformation 1940s
Liza Elliott, "Allure" magazines editor-in-chief, suffers from headaches and continuous daydreams and undergoes psychoanalysis to determine why.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1938
78 Minutes
A Hollywood screenwriter looking for inspiration for his next film goes to Mexico, where he runs into a beautiful Mexican girl who sets her sights on him.
Horror
1977
85 Minutes
Peter Cushing Ray Milland Samantha Eggar Susan Penhaligon Donald Pleasence Joan Greenwood Roland Culver Simon Williams Alexandra Stewart Donald Pilon Chloe Franks
cat devil writer dark quirky united kingdom quebec supernatural death will and testament rivalry revenge 1970s
A writer (Peter Cushing) gives a publisher (Ray Milland) three examples to sell his story about a conspiracy of cats.
Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Action
1979
90 Minutes
Peter Graves Ray Milland Vincent Van Patten Pedro Armendáriz Jr. Alan Conrad Anthony Charnota Robby Weaver Danny Ades
California teens have van trouble in the desert and come across killer crooks (Peter Graves, Ray Milland).
Comedy
USA
1937
86 Minutes
John Ball Jr.
Jean Arthur Edward Arnold Ray Milland Luis Alberni Mary Nash Franklin Pangborn Barlowe Borland William Demarest Andrew Tombes Esther Dale Harlan Briggs
office worker wealthy man son wife hotel owner stockbroker cheeky playful frenetic new york city bus office hotel automat chance meeting class distinctions misunderstanding great depression rags to riches romance
A wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off the roof of a building; it lands on the head of a stenographer, leading to everyone assuming she is his mistress and has access to his millions.