Milla Davenport

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1871-02-03 (65 years old)

Deathday

1936-05-17

Place of Birth

Zürich, Switzerland

Milla Davenport

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 Defens...

Acting

1920

You Never Can Tell

as Mrs. Jones

1921

Patsy

as Matron

1923

Dulcy

as Matty

1920

Stronger Than Death

as Mrs. Smithers

1918

Social Briars

as Mrs. Brown

1919

The Brat

as The Brat's Aunt

1928

The Danger Rider

as Housekeeper

1927

Hey! Hey! Cowboy

as Aunt Jane

1926

1922

The Worldly Madonna

as Jail Matron

1935

Here Comes Cookie

as Mrs. Flugsnort

1935

The Wedding Night

as Grandmother

1919

Daddy-Long-Legs

as Mrs. Lippett

1923

The Christian

as Matron

1926

Crossed Signals

as Mother Slattery

1924

The Red Lily

as Madame Poussot

1934

1921

Rip Van Winkle

as Gretchen Van Winkle

1925

Dangerous Innocence

as Stewardess

1936

Human Cargo

as German

1929

1926

The Road to Glory

as Aunt Selma

1932

Merrily We Go to Hell

as Prentice's Housekeeper (uncredited)

1934

In Love with Life

as Mrs. Gootz

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