# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-milland
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:00:19.834Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-milland"
name: "Ray Milland"
slug: "ray-milland"
description: "Ray Milland was a Welsh and American actor. Initially known as a star of light comedies, he achieved a dramatic breakthrough with his portrayal of an alcoholic writer in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend (1945). His performance earned him the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, a Golden Globe Award, and ultimately an Academy Award—the first such accolades for any Welsh-born actor."
tagline: "British actor (1907–1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ray_Milland_by_A._L._Whitey_Schafer%2C_1947.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1907-01-03"
deathDate: "1986-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump