Ray Milland, nom d'artiste de Reginald Truscott-Jones, est un acteur, réalisateur et producteur britannique, né le 3 janvier 1907 à Neath (Royaume-Uni), et mort le 10 mars 1986 à Torrance (Californie).

Il est le premier acteur à recevoir, au premier festival de Cannes (1946), le prix d'interprétation masculine pour son rôle de l'écrivain alcoolique Don Birnam dans le film Le Poison de Billy Wilder, sorti en 1945.

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Milland was married to Muriel Frances Weber, from 1932 until his death in 1986. They had a son, Daniel (b.1940) and an adopted daughter, Victoria. Milland was rumoured to have had an affair with co-star Grace Kelly, whilst filming Dial M for Murder.

Milland had a tattoo on his upper right arm of a skull with a snake curled up on top of it with the tail of the snake sticking out through one of the eyes. The tattoo can be seen for a brief moment in the movie Her Jungle Love (1938).

Milland's son, Daniel Milland, appeared in several minor acting roles in the 1960s. He died in March 1981, at the age of 41, in an apparent suicide. An AR-7 .22 calibre Survival Rifle was found next to him on his bed and he had a wound to his head.

Milland died of lung cancer in Torrance, California, on 10 March 1986, aged 79. He was survived by his wife, the former Muriel Weber, and his daughter.

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