Milton Sills
The Sea Wolf (1930)
The Sea Wolf is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alfred Santell and written by S. N. Behrman and Ralph Block. The film stars Milton Sills, Jane Keithley, Raymond Hackett, Mitchell Harris, Nat Pendleton, and John Rogers. It is based on the 1904 novel The Sea-Wolf by Jack London. The film was released on September 21, 1930, by Fox Film...
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Blanche Sweet
His Captive Woman (1929)
His Captive Woman is a 1929 American part-talking drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Milton Sills and Dorothy Mackaill. This film is "based on the short story "Changeling" by Donn Byrne in Changeling and Other Stories ." It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures which was already a subsidiary of the Warner Broth...
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Ora Carew
Love and the Devil (1929)
Love and the Devil is a 1929 American silent drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Milton Sills, María Corda and Ben Bard.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Dorothy Dalton
The Barker (1928)
The Barker is a 1928 part-talkie pre-Code romantic drama film produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros., acquired in September 1928. The film was directed by George Fitzmaurice and stars Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Ora Carew
Burning Daylight (1928)
Burning Daylight is a 1928 silent dramatic action adventure film directed by Charles Brabin and starring Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon, a real-life married couple. It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures and based on the 1910 novel of the same name by Jack London. It was previously filmed by Metro Pictures in 1920.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Alla Nazimova
The Crash (1928)
The Crash is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Edward F. Cline and starring Milton Sills, Thelma Todd and Wade Boteler.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Mary Miles Minter
The Hawk's Nest (1928)
The Hawk's Nest is a 1928 American film directed by Benjamin Christensen. It is believed to be lost. It was released by First National Pictures and stars husband and wife Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Alla Nazimova
Framed (1927)
Framed is a 1927 American drama film directed by Charles Brabin and written by Mary O'Hara. The film stars Milton Sills, Natalie Kingston, E. J. Ratcliffe, Charles K. Gerrard, Edward Peil Sr. and Burr McIntosh. The film was released on June 19, 1927, by First National Pictures.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Doris Kenyon
Hard-Boiled Haggerty (1927)
Hard-Boiled Haggerty is a 1927 American silent war film directed by Charles Brabin. The film stars Milton Sills and Molly O'Day, taking on two roles as both the character Germaine and her look-alike sister. Hard-Boiled Haggerty was one of the first American films to portray aerial combat in World War I.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Fannie Ward
The Sea Tiger (1927)
The Sea Tiger is a 1927 American silent drama film produced and distributed by First National Pictures and directed by John Francis Dillon. The film stars Milton Sills and Mary Astor. It is now a lost film.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Ruth Roland•Gertrude Claire
The Valley of the Giants (1927)
The Valley of the Giants is a 1927 silent film adventure directed by Charles Brabin and starring Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon who were real-life man and wife. It was based on a novel by Peter B. Kyne. First National produced and distributed the film having gained the screen rights to the story from Famous Players-Lasky and Paramount. Paramount had...
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Alla Nazimova
Men of Steel (1926)
Men of Steel is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, and May Allison.
Starring: Ethel Clayton•Natalie Kingston•Alla Nazimova
Paradise (1926)
Paradise is a lost 1926 American silent escapist-romance film directed by Irvin Willat and released by First National Pictures. The film stars Milton Sills, Betty Bronson and Noah Beery. Based on the popular 1925 novel Paradise by Cosmo Hamilton and John Russell, it was one of Sills' most successful films.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•John Bowers•Kitty Gordon
Puppets (1926)
Puppets is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Milton Sills, Gertrude Olmstead and Francis McDonald.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Agnes Ayres
The Silent Lover (1926)
The Silent Lover is a 1926 American silent adventure film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Milton Sills, Natalie Kingston and Viola Dana.
Starring: Mitchell Lewis•Natalie Kingston•Doris Kenyon
As Man Desires (1925)
As Man Desires is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Viola Dana. It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures.
Starring: Mitchell Lewis•Natalie Kingston
I Want My Man (1925)
I Want My Man is a 1925 American drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by Joseph F. Poland, Earle Snell, and Earl Hudson. It is based on the 1924 novel The Interpreter's House by Maxwell Struthers Burt. The film stars Doris Kenyon, Milton Sills, Phyllis Haver, May Allison, Kate Bruce, and Paul Nicholson. The film was released on March ...
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Alla Nazimova•Corinne Griffith
The Knockout (1925)
The Knockout is a 1925 silent film drama directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Milton Sills. It was based on the novel The Come-Back by Morris DeCamp Crawford. It was produced by and released by First National Pictures.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Marie Shotwell
The Making of O'Malley (1925)
The Making of O'Malley is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by Eugene Clifford. The film stars Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Helen Rowland, Warner Richmond, Thomas Carrigan and Julia Hurley. The film was released on June 28, 1925, by First National Pictures. The Gerald Beaumont short story was also the basi...
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Ora Carew
The Unguarded Hour (1925)
The Unguarded Hour is a 1925 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, and Claude King. The film's sets were designed by the art director Milton Menasco.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Alla Nazimova
Flowing Gold (1924)
Flowing Gold is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Joseph De Grasse and starring Anna Q. Nilsson, Milton Sills, and Alice Calhoun. The film's plot concerns the Texas oil industry.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Claire Windsor
The Heart Bandit (1924)
The Heart Bandit is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Oscar Apfel and starring Viola Dana, Milton Sills, and Gertrude Claire.
Starring: Mitchell Lewis•Natalie Kingston
A Lady of Quality (1924)
A Lady of Quality is a 1924 American silent historical drama film directed by Hobart Henley and starring Virginia Valli. Produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, it was based on the 1896 novel A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Previous adaptations include the film A Lady of Quality (1913).
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Ann Forrest
Madonna of the Streets (1924)
Madonna of the Streets is a 1924 American drama film directed by Edwin Carewe and written by Frank Griffin, Frederic Hatton, and Fanny Hatton. It is based on the 1904 novel The Ragged Messenger by W. B. Maxwell. The film stars Alla Nazimova, Milton Sills, Claude Gillingwater, Courtenay Foote, Wallace Beery, and Anders Randolf. The film was released...
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Alice Lake
The Sea Hawk (1924)
The Sea Hawk is a 1924 American silent adventure film about an English noble sold into slavery who escapes and turns himself into a pirate king. Directed by Frank Lloyd, the screen adaptation was written by J. G. Hawks based upon the 1915 Rafael Sabatini novel of the same name. It premiered on June 2, 1924, in New York City, twelve days before its ...
Starring: Natalie Kingston
Single Wives (1924)
Single Wives is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by George Archainbaud and produced by and starring Corinne Griffith. It was distributed by First National Pictures.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Enid Bennett
Adam's Rib (1923)
Adam's Rib is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. A print of the film exists in the George Eastman House film archive.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Fontaine La Rue•Claire Windsor
Flaming Youth (1923)
Flaming Youth is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Colleen Moore and Milton Sills, based on the novel of the same name by Samuel Hopkins Adams. The film was produced and distributed by Associated First National. In his retrospective essay "Echoes of the Jazz Age", writer F. Scott Fitzgerald cited Flaming...
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Fontaine La Rue•Katherine MacDonald
The Isle of Lost Ships (1923)
(For the 1929 talkie see The Isle of Lost Ships )
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Claire Windsor
The Last Hour (1923)
The Last Hour is a 1923 American silent crime film directed by Edward Sloman and starring Milton Sills, Carmel Myers and Pat O'Malley.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Winter Hall
The Spoilers (1923)
The Spoilers is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with Milton Sills as Roy Glennister, Anna Q. Nilsson as Cherry Malotte, and Noah Beery Sr. as Alex McNamara. The film culminates in a saloon fistfight between Glennister and McNamara.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Claire Windsor
What a Wife Learned (1923)
What a Wife Learned is a 1923 American drama film directed by John Griffith Wray and starring John Bowers, Milton Sills, Marguerite De La Motte, Evelyn McCoy, Harry Todd, and Aggie Herring. Written by Bradley King, the film was released on January 28, 1923, by Associated First National Pictures.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Gertrude Olmstead•Jacqueline Logan
Why Women Remarry (1923)
Why Women Remarry is a 1923 American silent crime drama film directed by John Gorman and starring Milton Sills, Ethel Grey Terry and William Lowery.
Starring: Dorothy Mackaill•Natalie Kingston•Betty Bronson
Borderland (1922)
Borderland is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Paul Powell and written by Beulah Marie Dix. The film stars Agnes Ayres, Milton Sills, Fred Huntley, Bertram Grassby, Casson Ferguson, Ruby Lafayette, and Sylvia Ashton. The film was released on July 20, 1922, by Paramount Pictures. It is not known whether the film currently survives.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Thelma Todd
Burning Sands (1922)
Burning Sands is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by George Melford and written by Olga Printzlau and Waldemar Young based upon the novel of the same name by Arthur Weigall. The film stars Wanda Hawley, Milton Sills, Louise Dresser, Jacqueline Logan, Robert Cain, Fenwick Oliver, and Winter Hall. The film was released on September 3, 1922,...
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Alice White•Molly O'Day
Environment (1922)
Environment is a 1922 American silent crime film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Milton Sills, Alice Lake and Gertrude Claire.
Starring: María Corda•Natalie Kingston•Leah Baird
The Forgotten Law (1922)
The Forgotten Law is a 1922 American silent melodrama film starring Milton Sills and directed by James W. Horne. The story was adapted from the 1906 novel A Modern Madonna by Caroline Abbot Stanley.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Blanche Sweet
The Marriage Chance (1922)
The Marriage Chance is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Hampton Del Ruth and starring Alta Allen, Milton Sills and Irene Rich.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Margarita Fischer•Miriam Cooper
One Clear Call (1922)
One Clear Call is a surviving 1922 American silent drama film directed by John M. Stahl and starring Milton Sills, Claire Windsor, and Irene Rich.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Margarita Fischer•Dorothy Dalton
Skin Deep (1922)
Skin Deep is a 1922 silent film crime drama directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Milton Sills and Florence Vidor. It was based on a novel, Lucky Damage, by Marc Edmund Jones.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Mary Alden
The Woman Who Walked Alone (1922)
The Woman Who Walked Alone is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by George Melford and written by John Colton and Will M. Ritchey. The film stars Dorothy Dalton, Milton Sills, E. J. Ratcliffe, Wanda Hawley, Frederick Vroom, Mayme Kelso, and John Davidson. The film was released on June 11, 1922, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Mildred Harris•Natalie Kingston•Alice White
At the End of the World (1921)
At the End of the World is a 1921 American silent action drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on the play At the End of the World by Ernst Klein and starred Betty Compson and Milton Sills.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Tom Santschi•Alec B. Francis
The Faith Healer (1921)
The Faith Healer is a lost 1921 American silent drama film directed by George Melford and written by Z. Wall Covington and Mrs. William Vaughn Moody from William Vaughn Moody's play. The film stars Milton Sills, Ann Forrest, Fontaine La Rue, Frederick Vroom, Loyola O'Connor, Mae Giraci, and John Curry. The film was released on March 13, 1921, by Pa...
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Mary Miles Minter•Florence Reed
The Great Moment (1921)
The Great Moment is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gloria Swanson, Alec B. Francis, and Milton Sills. The film is now considered lost though a fragment exists and is preserved at the BFI National Archive.
Starring: Pauline Frederick•Natalie Kingston•Alice Brady
The Little Fool (1921)
The Little Fool is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Milton Sills, Frances Wadsworth and Nigel Barrie.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Geraldine Farrar•Fannie Ward
Miss Lulu Bett (1921)
Miss Lulu Bett is a 1921 American silent comedy drama film based on a 1920 play and bestselling novel of the same name by Zona Gale. The screenplay was written by Clara Beranger, and the film was directed by William C. deMille. The play won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Ruth Roland•Warner Oland
Salvage (1921)
Salvage is a lost 1921 American silent drama film directed by Henry King and starring Pauline Frederick. It was produced and distributed by the Robertson-Cole Company.
Starring: Gretchen Hartman•Natalie Kingston•Edward Kimball
Behold My Wife! (1920)
Behold My Wife! is a lost 1920 American silent drama film directed by George Melford and starring Mabel Julienne Scott and Milton Sills in a filmization of Sir Gilbert Parker's novel, The Translation of a Savage. Famous Players-Lasky produced the film and Paramount Pictures distributed.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Kitty Gordon•Jack Holt
Dangerous to Men (1920)
Dangerous to Men is a lost 1920 American silent comedy film directed by William C. Dowland and starring Viola Dana. It was distributed through Metro Pictures. The working title was "Eliza Comes to Stay".
Starring: Mitchell Lewis•Natalie Kingston
The Inferior Sex (1920)
The Inferior Sex is a 1920 American drama film directed by Joseph Henabery and written by Keene Thompson and Waldemar Young. It is based on the 1910 play The Inferior Sex by Frank Slayton. The film stars Mildred Harris, Milton Sills, Mary Alden, John Steppling, Bertram Grassby and James O. Barrows. The film was released on March 8, 1920, by First N...
Starring: Peggy Hyland•George MacQuarrie•Natalie Kingston
Sweet Lavender (1920)
Sweet Lavender is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Paul Powell and starring Mary Miles Minter. The scenario was adapted by Beulah Marie Dix from the 1888 play of the same name by Arthur Wing Pinero. Like many of Minter's features, it is thought to be a lost film.
Starring: Lois Wilson•Natalie Kingston•Ralph Lewis
The Week-End (1920)
The Week-End is a lost 1920 American silent comedy film directed by George L. Cox and starring Margarita Fischer and Milton Sills. It was produced and distributed by Pathé Exchange.
Starring: Florence Vidor•Natalie Kingston
The Fear Woman (1919)
The Fear Woman is a lost 1919 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Goldwyn Pictures and starring Pauline Frederick.
Starring: Gretchen Hartman•Natalie Kingston
Satan Junior (1919)
Satan Junior is a 1919 American silent comedy film, directed by Herbert Blaché and John H. Collins. It was Collins' final involvement in film. Collins began directing the film, production of which had to be suspended due to the flu epidemic of 1918. Collins contracted the flu and died in 1918. When production resumed, Blaché took over directing dut...
Starring: Mitchell Lewis•Natalie Kingston
Shadows (1919)
Shadows is a 1919 American silent film drama produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by Reginald Barker. It stars opera singer Geraldine Farrar.
Starring: Helen Ferguson•Natalie Kingston
The Stronger Vow (1919)
The Stronger Vow is a 1919 American silent melodrama film directed by Reginald Barker and distributed by Samuel Goldwyn. It is not known whether the film currently survives.
Starring: Helen Ferguson•Natalie Kingston
What Every Woman Learns (1919)
What Every Woman Learns is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Sylvia Ashton
The Woman Thou Gavest Me (1919)
The Woman Thou Gavest Me is a 1919 silent film directed by Hugh Ford and starring Jack Holt, Katherine MacDonald and Milton Sills. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Famous Players-Lasky and Paramount Pictures. The film is based on the 1913 controversial novel The Woman Thou Gavest Me by Hall Caine, adapted for the scre...
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Ann Forrest•Mitchell Lewis
The Claw (1918)
The Claw is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Robert G. Vignola and starring Clara Kimball Young, Milton Sills, and Jack Holt.
Starring: Fontaine La Rue•Natalie Kingston•Ann Forrest
The Hell Cat (1918)
The Hell Cat is a 1918 American silent Western film produced and distributed by Goldwyn Pictures. Reginald Barker directed and Geraldine Farrar starred. It is not known whether the film currently survives.
Starring: Alice Lake•Helen Ferguson•Natalie Kingston
The Other Woman (1918)
The Other Woman is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Albert Parker and starring Peggy Hyland, Milton Sills and Anna Lehr.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Irene Castle
The Savage Woman (1918)
The Savage Woman is a 1918 American silent adventure film directed by Edmund Mortimer and Robert G. Vignola and starring Clara Kimball Young, Edward Kimball, and Milton Sills.
Starring: Fontaine La Rue•Natalie Kingston•Katherine MacDonald
The Struggle Everlasting (1918)
The Struggle Everlasting is a 1918 American silent allegorical drama film directed by James Kirkwood, Sr. and starring stage star Florence Reed. It is based on a 1907 play, The Struggle Everlasting, by Edward Milton Royle.
Starring: Irene Rich•Natalie Kingston
The Yellow Ticket (1918)
The Yellow Ticket is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by William Parke and starring Fannie Ward. It is based on Michael Morton's 1914 play The Yellow Ticket. This screen adaptation of the play is currently classified as a lost film.
Starring: Winter Hall•Natalie Kingston•Betty Compson
Diamonds and Pearls (1917)
Diamonds and Pearls is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Kitty Gordon, Milton Sills, and George MacQuarrie.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Claire Windsor•Alta Allen
The Honor System (1917)
The Honor System is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Milton Sills and Cora Drew. The film established Walsh as a director. It was based on a novel of the same name by Henry Christeen Warnack.
Starring: Alice Brady•Natalie Kingston•Ruth Roland
Married in Name Only (1917)
Married in Name Only is a 1917 American silent film written by Ivan Abramson and directed by Edmund Lawrence, starring Gretchen Hartman, Milton Sills, and Marie Shotwell.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Ethel Clayton•Gretchen Hartman
Souls Adrift (1917)
Souls Adrift is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Harley Knoles and starring Ethel Clayton, Milton Sills and Frank DeVernon.
Starring: Natalie Kingston•Marie Shotwell
The Deep Purple (1915)
The Deep Purple is a lost 1915 film directed by James Young from a play written by Paul Armstrong and Wilson Mizner. The film stars Clara Kimball Young and Milton Sills, and was remade in 1920 again titled The Deep Purple by director Raoul Walsh.
Starring: Fontaine La Rue•Natalie Kingston
The Rack (1915)
The Rack is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Emile Chautard and starring Alice Brady, Milton Sills and June Elvidge.
Starring: James Marcus•Natalie Kingston