Miles Mander

Gender: Male
Born: 14th May 1888
Died: 8th February 1946
Nationality: England
Movies: Daredevils of the Red Circle, The Return of the Vampire, The Man in the Iron Mask, That Hamilton Woman, The Private Life of Henry VIII, The Pleasure Garden, Fly-by-Night, That Night in London, The Missing Rembrandt, Murder!, Murder, My Sweet, To Be or Not to Be, The Pearl of Death, The Scarlet Claw, Wuthering Heights, Shadows on the Stairs, A Little Princess, A Tragedy at Midnight, The Crooked Billet, The Battle, The Three Musketeers, Loyalties, Balaclava, The War Against Mrs. Hadley, Fingers at the Window, Apache Trail, Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day, The Walls Came Tumbling Down, The First Born

Miles Mander (14 May 1888 – 8 February 1946), born Lionel Henry Mander (and sometimes credited as Luther Miles), was a well-known and versatile English character actor of the early Hollywood cinema, also a film director and producer, and a playwright and novelist.

Miles Mander was the second son of Theodore Mander, builder of Wightwick Manor, of the prominent Mander family, industrialists and public servants of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, in the Midlands of England. He was the younger brother of Sir Geoffrey Mander, the Member of Parliament. He was educated at Harrow School, Middlesex (The Grove House 1901- Easter 1903); Loretto School, Musselburgh (east of Edinburgh) and McGill University, Montreal. But he soon broke away from the predictable mould of business and philanthropy. He was an early aviator, a captain in the Royal Army Service Corps in World War I. He spent his twenties in New Zealand farming sheep, with his uncle, Martin Mander.

He achieved success as Sir Hugh Boycott in The First Born (1928) which he directed and acted in, and which was based on his own novel and play. He is better remembered for his character portrayals of oily villains, many of them English

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