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name: "Milton Rosmer"
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born: "4 November 1881"
died: "7 December 1971"
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# Milton Rosmer

Actor. Born 4 November 1881 in Southport, Lancashire, England, UK. Died 7 December 1971.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 November 1881, Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
- **Died:** 7 December 1971
- **Also known as:** Arthur Milton Lunt
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Rosmer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3314543, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0743099/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/37861

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Goodbye, Mr. Chips* (1939), Fi1m 82, as Chatteris — [page](https://film.one/film/goodbye-mr-chips.md)

## Complete filmography (51)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel* (1955), series, as Banker Rothstein, Rothstein
- *John Wesley* (1954), as Georgia Trustee
- *Pride and Prejudice* (1952), series, as Mr Bennet
- *Sunday Night Theatre* (1950), series, as Emperor Franz I
- *The Small Back Room* (1949), as Prof. Mair
- *The Monkey's Paw* (1948), as Mr. Robert Trelawne
- *Daybreak* (1948), as Governor
- *Fame Is the Spur* (1947), as Magistrate
- *Frieda* (1947), as Merrick
- *Atlantic Ferry* (1941), as George Burns
- *Dangerous Comment* (1940), as Major Brett
- *Return to Yesterday* (1940), as Sambourne
- *The Stars Look Down* (1940), as Harry Nugent, MP
- *The Lion Has Wings* (1939), as Head of Observer Corps
- *Goodbye, Mr. Chips* (1939), as Chatteris — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/goodbye-mr-chips.md)
- *Let's Be Famous* (1939), as Albert Pinbright
- *Gas Light* (1939), as Inspector Rough
- *The Challenge* (1938), Scenario Writer, Director
- *South Riding* (1938), as Alderman Snaith
- *The Great Barrier* (1937), Director, Screenplay
- *Everything Is Thunder* (1936), Director
- *The Guv'nor* (1935), Director
- *Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn* (1935), Director
- *The Phantom Light* (1935), as Dr. Carey
- *Emil and the Detectives* (1935), Director
- *The Secret of the Loch* (1934), Director
- *Channel Crossing* (1933), Director
- *After the Ball* (1932), Director
- *The Perfect Lady* (1931), Director
- *P.C. Josser* (1931), Director
- *Many Waters* (1931), Director
- *Dreyfus* (1931), Director
- *The W Plan* (1930), as President of Court Martial
- *High Treason* (1929), as Ernest Stratton
- *Balaclava* (1928), Director, Scenario Writer
- *The Shadow of Egypt* (1924), as Harold Westcott
- *A Gamble with Hearts* (1923), as Dallas Chalfont
- *La donna e l'uomo* (1923), Actor
- *The Passionate Friends* (1922), as Steven Stratton
- *A Romance of Wastdale* (1921), as David Gordon
- *A Woman of No Importance* (1921), as Lord Illingworth
- *The Amazing Partnership* (1921), as Pryde
- *Belphegor the Mountebank* (1921), as Belphegor
- *The Will* (1921), as Philip Ross
- *Torn Sails* (1920), as Hugh Morgan
- *The Twelve Pound Look* (1920), as Harry Sims
- *Wuthering Heights* (1920), as Heathcliff
- *The Chinese Puzzle* (1919), as Sir Roger de la Haye
- *Little Women* (1917), as Theodore Lawrence
- *Lady Windermere's Fan* (1916), as Lord Windermere
- *The Man Without a Soul* (1916), as Stephen Ferrier

## Gallery

- ![Milton Rosmer](https://film.one/media/person/1231180/gallery-c6df333cf85c.jpg) Milton Rosmer — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Wuthering_Heights_1920.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Milton Rosmer](https://film.one/media/person/1231180/gallery-2151ba13c2c9.jpg) Milton Rosmer — Image via TMDB

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