Robert Milasch

Milasch left his Smoke Mountain, Tennessee, home at age 9, joining a wagon circus that went through the village. At age 13, performing as a contortionist, he joined another circus and went with it to South Africa. He left that troupe after being beaten by his boss and went to England, where he worked as a clown. Back in the United States in 1898, he joined the Gaumont Film Company and began acting in short films for it.[4]

Milasch acted on stage before he worked in films.[1] He began his film career in 1903 at 18 at the Edison Manufacturing Company. One of his first Edison films was two appearances in the classic The Great Train Robbery.[5] In the sound era nearly every film appearance was uncredited.

Milasch died of uremic poisoning on November 14, 1954, in Woodland Hills, California, aged 69.[1]

• The Great Train Robbery (1903)
• The Eagle's Mate (1914)
• Under the Greenwood Tree (1918)
• The Two Brides (1919)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1919)
• The Rough Neck (1919)
• The Fourteenth Man (1920)
• Black Beauty (1921)
• Catch My Smoke (1922)
• Confidence (1922)
• The Prodigal Judge (1922)
• The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924)
• The Iron Horse (1924)
• Captain Blood (1924)
• Peter Pan (1924)
• The Right of the Strongest (1924)
• The Girl from Montmartre (1926)
• The Phantom Bullet (1926)
• Men of Daring (1927)
• A Hero for a Night (1927)
• The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1928)
• Chasing Rainbows (1930) (*uncredited)
• Dangerous Nan McGrew (1930)

• Robert Milasch at IMDb
• Robert Milasch at the Internet Broadway Database
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