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- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- February 3, 1871
- Place of Birth
- Zürich, Switzerland
- Died
- May 17, 1936
Milla Davenport
Milla Davenport was a stage and film actress, born in Zurich, Switzerland. Davenport was educated in Switzerland. She appeared with her husband actor Harry J. Davenport's (not the more famous Harry Davenport) repertory company for fifteen years. She began her career in motion pictures in the silent film Trapping the Bachelor (1916). She was in Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) with Mary Pickford, The Brat (1919) with Nazimova, Sins of the Fathers (1928) with Emil Jannings, and The Wedding Night (1935). Davenport continued to make movies well into the sound film era. Her last film credits are for roles in The Defense Rests (1934), Here Comes Cookie (1935), and an uncredited part in Human Cargo (1936).
Filmography
movieHuman Cargo
1936 · German
movieHere Comes Cookie
1935 · Mrs. Flugsnort
movieThe Wedding Night
1935 · Grandmother
movieThe Defense Rests
1934 · Neighbor
movieIn Love with Life
1934 · Mrs. Gootz
movieMerrily We Go to Hell
1932 · Prentice's Housekeeper (uncredited)
movieThe Girl from Woolworth's
1929 · Ma Donnelly
movieThe Danger Rider
1928 · Housekeeper
movieHey! Hey! Cowboy
1927 · Aunt Jane
movieCrossed Signals
1926 · Mother Slattery
movieCrazy Like a Fox
1926 · Mother
movieThe Road to Glory
1926 · Aunt Selma
movieDangerous Innocence
1925 · Stewardess
movieThe Red Lily
1924 · Madame Poussot
movieThe Right of the Strongest
1924 · Melissa Thaggin
movieDulcy
1923 · Matty
movieThe Christian
1923 · Matron
movieThe Man Who Waited
1922 · Madre Sánchez
The Worldly Madonna
movieThe Worldly Madonna
1922 · Jail Matron
What No Man Knows
movieWhat No Man Knows
1921 · Mother of missing girl (uncredited)
movieRip Van Winkle
1921 · Gretchen Van Winkle
movieThe Girl from God's Country
1921 · Mrs. Kraus
Patsy
moviePatsy
1921 · Matron
movieWhy Trust Your Husband?
1921 · Aunt Miranda
movieShe Couldn't Help It
1920 · Matron
movieYou Never Can Tell
1920 · Mrs. Jones
movieLeave It to Me
1920 · Mrs. Stephen Holmes
movieThe Forbidden Woman
1920 · Luisa
movieStronger Than Death
1920 · Mrs. Smithers
movieIn Mizzoura
1919 · Mrs. Vernon
movieThe Brat
1919 · The Brat's Aunt
movieThe Solitary Sin
1919
movieDaddy-Long-Legs
1919 · Mrs. Lippett
movieThe Girl Who Stayed at Home
1919
movieSocial Briars
1918 · Mrs. Brown