Miles Mander

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BIRTHDAY

May 14, 1888

Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK

DIED

February 08, 1946

RECENT CREDITS

Murder, My Sweet (FILM) Aug. 20, 1975

The Imperfect Lady (FILM) Apr. 25, 1947

Five Graves to Cairo (FILM) Jan. 1, 1943

Wuthering Heights (FILM) Jan. 1, 1939

Suez (FILM) Jan. 1, 1938

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BIOGRAPHY

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The son of an English manufacturer, Miles Mander had dabbled in several careers before making his screen bow as an extra in 1918. He'd been a farmer, a novelist, a playwright, a stage director and a cinema exhibitor -- and, if all the stories can be believed, a fight promoter, horse and auto racer, and aviator. He was billed as Luther Miles in his earliest film appearances, reserving his real name for his screenwriting credits. In Hollywood from 1935 on, the weedy, mustachioed Mander made a specialty of portraying old-school-tie Britishers who, for various reasons, had fallen into disgrace. He was never more unsavory than when he portrayed master criminal Giles Conover in the 1945 "Sherlock Holmes" entry The Pearl of Death. Mander also showed up in two separate versions of The Three Musketeers, playing Louis XIII in the 1935 version and Richelieu in the 1939 edition (he also played Aramis in the Musketeers sequel The Man in the Iron Mask [1939]). Shortly after wrapping up his scenes in Imperfect Lady (1947), 57-year-old Miles Mander died of a sudden heart attack.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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