Among Milland's many highlights, there was a Best Actor Academy Award for playing a troubled alcoholic in 1945's The Lost Weekend.

The previous year, his late career in the horror genre was foreshadowed in the excellent ghost film, 1944's The Uninvited.

Milland and co-star Ruth Hussey played a brother and sister who rent a mansion on England's coast haunted by a pair of spirits. It's great fun and holds up quite well.

Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder (1954) gave Milland a juicy part as the husband of Grace Kelly, who plots to kill her. If it's easy to overlook him in a film with the dazzling future Princess of Monaco, one must not underestimate his contribution.

Much like Shelley Winters, Milland settled comfortably into horror films by the sixties and seventies. There were two fine Roger Corman films, The Premature Burial (1961) and The Man With the X-Ray Eyes (1963), the creepy Frogs (1972) and Terror In the Wax Museum (1973).

Milland was equally adept in television, including The Dead Don't Die (1975) and the sequel to a classic, 1976's Look What's Happened To Rosemary's Baby.

If there are those who find it unseemly for an actor of Milland's stature to have portrayed a racist who has Rosey Grier's head surgically implanted onto his body (The Thing With Two Heads)...you might find an equal number of people who applauded his willingness to take roles in unusual films in order to continue working.

Milland passed away in 1986.

NOTABLE MILLAND FILMS	YEAR
The Attic	1980
The Case of the Girl in the Yellow Pyjamas	1977
The Darker Side of Terror	1979
The Dead Don't Die	1975
Dial M for Murder	1954
Frogs	1972
Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby	1976
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes	1963
The Premature Burial	1961
Terror in the Wax Museum	1973
The Thing with Two Heads	1972
The Uncanny	1977
The Uninvited	1944