Adolph Milar

{{Short description|American actor}} {{Infobox person | name = Adolph Milar | image = Adolph Milar (Wandering Papas).jpg | image_size = | caption = Adolph Milar in ''Wandering Papas'' (1926) | birth_date = April 11, 1895 | birth_place = Davos, Switzerland | death_date = May 25, 1950 (aged 55) | death_place = Santa Clara, California, U.S. | other_names = | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1919–1945 }} '''Adolph Milar''' (1895–1950) was an American film actor.<ref>Pitts p.160</ref> He appeared in character roles in around sixty American films from 1919 to 1945, playing characters of a variety of nationalities.<ref>Biskupski p.43</ref> His name is sometimes written as '''Adolf Milar'''.

==Selected filmography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''The Black Circle'' (1919) * ''Something Different'' (1920) * ''The Road of Ambition'' (1920) * ''The Silent Barrier'' (1920) * ''The Girl from Porcupine'' (1921) * ''My Friend the Devil'' (1922) * ''Enemies of Women'' (1923) * ''Fury'' (1923) * ''Backbone'' (1923) * ''Love's Wilderness'' (1924) * ''Marriage in Transit'' (1925) * ''Back to God's Country'' (1927) * ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1927) * ''Clothes Make the Woman'' (1928) * ''The Michigan Kid'' (1928) * ''The Devil's Skipper'' (1928) * ''The Gateway of the Moon'' (1928) * ''Bulldog Drummond'' (1929) * ''Call of the Flesh'' (1930) * ''Isle of Escape'' (1930) * ''The Medicine Man'' (1930) * ''Rain or Shine'' (1930) * ''Honeymoon Lane'' (1931) * ''Platinum Blonde'' (1931) * ''The Savage Girl'' (1932) * ''Sons of Steel'' (1934) * ''The Great Impersonation'' (1935) * ''Revolt of the Zombies'' (1936) * ''So Ends Our Night'' (1941) * ''Paris Calling'' (1941) {{div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Biskupski, M.B.B. ''Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945''. University Press of Kentucky, 2011. * Pitts, Michael R. ''Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each''. McFarland & Company, 2005.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0586890}}

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