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Ray Milland dies ( b.January 10, 1907 – March 10, 1986) is an Academy Award-winning Welsh-born actor. Milland was born Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones in Neath, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. He took his stage name from the flat area of land called the mill lands in Neath.
Milland was the subject of sinister scientific experiments in both The Thing with Two Heads (1972) and X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes (1963). He also battled vengeful ghosts in the classic The Uninvited (1944) and played Sire Uri in television's original Battlestar Galactica (1978). Ray's other big-screen genre credits include The Attic (1979), The Uncanny (1977), Terror in the Wax Museum (1973), Frogs (1972), The Premature Burial (1962), Panic in Year Zero! (1962), and Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder (1954). Ray's television projects include Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976), Daughter of the Mind (1969), and a 1971 episode of Night Gallery titled "The Hand of Borgus Weems."
Milland passed away in Torrance, California from lung cancer on March 10, 1986.
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