Miles Mander

Actor

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Also Known As

Luther Miles, Lionel Mander

Birth Place

Wolverhampton, England, GB

Born

May 14, 1888

Died

February 08, 1946

Biography

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Miles Mander was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Mander started his acting career landing roles in such films as the drama "The Pleasure Garden" (1925) with Virginia Valli, "The First Born" (1928) and the Feodor Chaliapin Sr. dramatic adventure "Don Quichotte" (1933). He also appeared in the Charles Laughton period drama "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (1933), the dr...

Filmography

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Youthful Folly (1934)

The First Born (1928)

The Imperfect Lady (1947)

The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

Sir Robert Bentley

Confidential Agent (1945)

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Fingers At The Window (1942) — There Are No Evil Spirits

Murder, My Sweet (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Familiar With Jade?

Biography

Miles Mander was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Mander started his acting career landing roles in such films as the drama "The Pleasure Garden" (1925) with Virginia Valli, "The First Born" (1928) and the Feodor Chaliapin Sr. dramatic adventure "Don Quichotte" (1933). He also appeared in the Charles Laughton period drama "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (1933), the drama "The Battle" (1934) with Charles Boyer and "The Three Musketeers" (1935). He continued to work steadily in film throughout the thirties and the forties, appearing in the Louis Hayward adventurous drama "The Man in the Iron Mask" (1939), the drama "Wuthering Heights" (1939) with Merle Oberon and the dramatic period piece "Tower of London" (1939) with Basil Rathbone. He also appeared in "The Primrose Path" (1940) with Ginger Rogers. Toward the end of his career, he continued to act in the adventure "Tarzan's New York Adventure" (1942) with Johnny Weissmuller, the Carole Lombard comedy "To Be or Not to Be" (1942) and the action flick "Guadalcanal Diary" (1943) with Preston Foster. He also appeared in "Five Graves to Cairo" (1943) and the Bela Lugosi horror movie "The Return of the Vampire" (1943). Mander was most recently credited in the mystery "The Pearl of Death" (1948) with Basil Rathbone. Mander passed away in February 1946 at the age of 58.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Youthful Folly (1934)

The First Born (1928)

Cast (Feature Film)

The Imperfect Lady (1947)

The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

Sir Robert Bentley

Confidential Agent (1945)

Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)

British secretary

The Brighton Strangler (1945)

The Crime Doctor's Warning (1945)

Frederick Malone

The Scarlet Claw (1944)

Murder, My Sweet (1944)

Enter Arsene Lupin (1944)

Cousin Charles Seagrave

Four Jills in a Jeep (1944)

The Pearl of Death (1944)

Madame Curie (1944)

The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)

First Comes Courage (1943)

Assignment in Brittany (1943)

Colonel [Herman] Fournier

Five Graves to Cairo (1943)

Colonel Fitzhume

The Return of the Vampire (1943)

Sir Frederick Fleet

The Fallen Sparrow (1943)

Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Guadalcanal Diary (1943)

Captains of the Clouds (1942)

Churchill's voice

Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)

A Tragedy at Midnight (1942)

Dr. Hilary Wilton

Lucky Jordan (1942)

Apache Trail (1942)

James V. Thorne

Secrets of the Underground (1942)

The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942)

Dr. Leonard V. Meecham

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

Major Cunningham

Fly-by-Night (1942)

Professor Langner

Fingers at the Window (1942)

Dr. Kurt Immelman

This Above All (1942)

Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Voice of Lord Haw Haw

Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941)

That Hamilton Woman (1941)

Free and Easy (1941)

Shadows on the Stairs (1941)

They Met in Bombay (1941)

Road to Singapore (1940)

Sir Malcolm Drake

The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

South of Suez (1940)

Captain Caution (1940)

Primrose Path (1940)

Babies for Sale (1940)

Dr. [Wallace] Rankin

The Earl of Chicago (1940)

Attorney general

Tower of London (1939)

Wuthering Heights (1939)

The Three Musketeers (1939)

Cardinal Richelieu

Stanley and Livingstone (1939)

Sir John Gresham

The Little Princess (1939)

The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)

Daredevils of the Red Circle (1939)

Benjamin Disraeli

Kidnapped (1938)

Ebenezer Balfour

The Mad Miss Manton (1938)

Wake Up and Live (1937)

Slave Ship (1937)

Youth on Parole (1937)

Lloyd's of London (1936)

Here's to Romance (1935)

The Three Musketeers (1935)

King Louis XIII

Death Drives Through (1935)

The Private Life of Henry VIII (1934)

Thunder in the East (1934)

Over Night (1934)

Bitter Sweet (1933)

Captain Auguste von Lutte

Don Quichotte (1933)

Lily Christine (1932)

The First Born (1928)

The Pleasure Garden (1925)

Writer (Feature Film)

The First Born (1928)

Producer (Feature Film)

The First Born (1928)

Life Events

Photo Collections

Five Graves to Cairo - Behind-the-Scenes Photos

Here are some photos taken behind-the-scenes during production of Paramount's Five Graves to Cairo (1943), directed by Billy Wilder.

Videos

Fingers At The Window (1942) — There Are No Evil Spirits Ever more clever unemployed actor Oliver (Lew Ayres) poses as one of the the paranoid schizophrenics being rounded up in Chicago, so he can see files linking the already captured axe-murderers to the psychiatric clinic, Miles Mander his enthused doctor, then wangles a ride back to his girlfriend, in Fingers At The Window, 1942.

Murder, My Sweet (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Familiar With Jade? Raymond Chandler's famous P-I Marlowe (Dick Powell) narrating, as Anne (Anne Shirley) introduces him to her father Grayle (Miles Mander) and his wife Helen (Claire Trevor) for a talk about stolen jade, in Murder, My Sweet, directed by Edward Dmytryk.

Wuthering Heights (1939) -- (Movie Clip) On The Barren Yorkshire Moors Beginning the stormy prologue from Samuel Goldwyn's celebrated 1939 production of Wuthering Heights, Miles Mander as the visitor Lockwood, Laurence Olivier the taciturn Heathcliff, other characters rather obscured, from the Emily Bronte novel, directed by William Wyler.

Little Princess, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Buttons Are A Bother Bearing up at her new London school after her father's left for the Boer War, Sara (Shirley Temple) making friends with Ram Dass (Cesar Romero), Lord Wickham (Miles Mander), kindly teacher Rose (Anita Louise), and scullery girl Becky (Sybil Jason), early in Twentieth Century-Fox's The Little Princess, 1939.

White Cliffs Of Dover, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) I Have Loved England Opening with prologue, Irene Dunne narrating as American-born Lady Susan in a contemporary London military hospital, conferring with a colleague (Joy Harington) and commanding officer (Miles Mander), plus a quick look at her soldier son (Peter Lawford), in The White Cliffs Of Dover, 1944.

Man in the Iron Mask, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) My Kingdom for Yours Philippe (Louis Hayward), flanked by D'Artagnan (Warren William) and the musketeers (Alan Hale, Bert Roach, Miles Mander), confronts his brother King Louis (also Hayward) in James Whale's The Man in the Iron Mask, 1939.

Primrose Path (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Run Away, Dear! The opening scene introducing Grandma (Queenie Vassar), Ellie May (Ginger Rogers) and her philosophical father Homer (Miles Mander), from Gregory La Cava's Primrose Path, 1940.

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