Ray Milland

Ray Milland (1907–1986) was a Welsh-born actor and director whose film career included The Lost Weekend, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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The Lost Weekend: A 1945 film directed by Billy Wilder about a writer’s four-day alcoholic binge. Milland won the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying its struggling alcoholic protagonist.
Billy Wilder: An Austrian-American filmmaker known for sharply written films including The Lost Weekend and Sunset Boulevard. Wilder directed Milland’s Oscar-winning performance and helped define its unsparing tone.
Neath: A town in south Wales, in the United Kingdom. Milland was born there in 1907 before building a career in British and American cinema.
Academy Award for Best Actor: An annual Academy Award honoring a leading performance by an actor in a film. Milland received the award for The Lost Weekend at the 18th Academy Awards.
Dial M for Murder: A 1954 Alfred Hitchcock thriller about a husband’s plan to murder his wife. Milland plays the calculating husband, one of his best-known suspense roles.
Alfred Hitchcock: An English filmmaker known for suspense films such as Vertigo and Psycho. Hitchcock directed Milland in Dial M for Murder, adapting the role from stage to screen.
Royal Horse Guards: A British Army cavalry regiment that later became part of the Household Cavalry Regiment. Milland served in the regiment before leaving military life for acting.
Alcoholism in film: The portrayal of alcohol dependence and its effects in motion pictures. Milland’s performance made addiction the dramatic center of a major Hollywood film.
The Uninvited: A 1944 supernatural film about siblings who encounter a haunting in a seaside house. Milland stars as one of the siblings in this influential ghost story.
Grace Kelly: An American actor who became Princess of Monaco after a brief film career. She co-starred with Milland in Dial M for Murder as the wife targeted by his character.