Biography
Milton Rosmer, born Arthur Milton Lunt, was a British actor, film director and screenwriter. He began his career as a stage actor, appearing opposite John Martin-Harvey in 1903, and made his screen debut in The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1915). Between 1926 and 1938 he directed sixteen films, among them Emil and the Detectives (1935) and The Challenge (1938).
Rosmer specialised in supporting roles as authority figures such as magistrates, professors and officers. He played Chatteris in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) and Professor Mair in The Small Back Room (1949). He continued to act in film and television until 1956. He died in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, in 1971.
