What is Ray Milland?
{{Infobox person | image = Ray Milland Markham 1959.JPG | imagesize = 250px | caption = Milland in a publicity shot for ''Markham'' | birth_name = Alfred Reginald Jones | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1907|01|03}} | birth_place = [[Neath]], [[Wales]], U.K. | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1986|03|10|1907|01|03}} | death_place = [[Torrance, California]], U.S. | death_cause = [[Lung cancer]] | resting_place = Cremated | nationality = Welsh | other names = {{hlist|Ray the Magnificent|Hollywood's Master Actor|Ole Milland}} | education = King's College School, Cardiff | occupation = {{hlist|Actor|director}} | years_active = 1928–1985 | spouse = Muriel Weber (m. 1932–1986) | children = 2 }} '''Ray Milland''' (3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh-American actor and director. == Career == In the early years he achieved success in films such as ''Bulldog Drummond Escapes'' (1937), ''Hotel Imperial'' (1939), ''Beau Geste'' (1939), and ''The Major and the Minor'' (1942) with [[Ginger Rogers]]. He was also in ''Ministry of Fear'' (1944), by [[Fritz Lang]]. In the [[Billy Wilder]] film ''The Lost Weekend'' (1945), he played the role of Don Birnam, an alcoholic writer. That role earned him an [[Academy Award]] as best actor. In the 1950s he starred in the [[Alfred Hitchcock]] film ''[[Dial M for Murder]]'' (1954). Another performance was as Oliver Barrett III (1970), in the [[Arthur Hiller]] film ''[[Love Story (film)|Love Story]]'' (1970), with [[Ali MacGraw]] and [[Ryan O'Neal]]. == Sci-fi movies == In early 1960, Ray Milland started much to play evil characters, in horror and [[sci-fi]] movies such as ''[[Panic in Year Zero!]]'' (1962), he also directed. ''[[Premature Burial]]'' (1962) and ''[[X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes]]'' (1963), by [[Roger Corman]], in ''Frogs'' (1972), he played a man who is attacked by a plague of mutant frogs, ''[[The Thing with Two H